"For some, this means anything not written by white, straight men."
Which points out the danger of assumptions! I'm a straight white man, but I'm also disabled (not something you can work out from my name either!), equally SWM doesn't rule out being in a religious minority, or membership of a regional group (I'm a Geordie, and there are a lot of assumptions, many negative, built around my native accent). It's a complex issue, when I'm writing about disability I'm almost inevitably doing it from a diverse viewpoint, in that I deliberately focus on issues of disability discrimination, and disability is poorly enough understood there's an inherent spokesperson role in the writing, but if I was doing it from the Geordie perspective, then it would be very context dependent as to where it was diverse writing or not.
Diversity is good, and hunting down diverse authors has undoubtedly enriched my reading this year, but I'm not sure subjecting it to statistical analysis really adds anything to the average person's reading.
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Which points out the danger of assumptions! I'm a straight white man, but I'm also disabled (not something you can work out from my name either!), equally SWM doesn't rule out being in a religious minority, or membership of a regional group (I'm a Geordie, and there are a lot of assumptions, many negative, built around my native accent). It's a complex issue, when I'm writing about disability I'm almost inevitably doing it from a diverse viewpoint, in that I deliberately focus on issues of disability discrimination, and disability is poorly enough understood there's an inherent spokesperson role in the writing, but if I was doing it from the Geordie perspective, then it would be very context dependent as to where it was diverse writing or not.
Diversity is good, and hunting down diverse authors has undoubtedly enriched my reading this year, but I'm not sure subjecting it to statistical analysis really adds anything to the average person's reading.