K. Tempest Bradford

Over on Tor.com I collated the stories, novels, and authors suggested in my ABW and FeministSF posts on mindblowing SF by women and POC. The list is quite long but is far from exhaustive. If you want to add more, do! Or just co-sign.

August 25th, 2009 | Tags: Gender Imbalance In Publishing, lists, mindblowing sf, Race Imbalance in Publishing, Tor.com | Category: Elsewhere on the Internets, Publishing | Leave a comment

Or so says Claire Light:
…how do you — not “become a good editor” but — change the way you do business so that your editing becomes more than an exercise in futility? Here are some steps:

Go out an read diverse stuff. This is not hard. There is google. Go to google and look up “African [...]

August 18th, 2009 | Tags: fail better, Gender Imbalance In Publishing, Race Imbalance in Publishing | Category: Publishing | Comments (3)

Yesterday at Tor.com I nattered on about what it takes to create better magazines. Was at work when it went up, so I didn’t get a chance to post about it. The conversation in comments is actually interesting, though there does seem to be one person determined to make me out as a person who [...]

August 11th, 2009 | Tags: Gender Imbalance In Publishing, Race Imbalance in Publishing, Tor.com | Category: Elsewhere on the Internets, Me, Elsewhere, Non-Fiction | Comments (3)

Dear Sir,
Though you have taken time to give a poor explanation of why there are no women in your anthology, I have yet to see you give any explanation as to why there are no writers of color in it, either. If you could please kindly provide this answer, as many of us would like [...]

August 6th, 2009 | Tags: Gender Imbalance In Publishing, Mammoth Mistakes of SF, Mike Ashley, Race Imbalance in Publishing | Category: Blog Against Racism, Publishing | Comments (5)

Or: why the Male Only Table of Contents issue is about both Gender and Race
So over on Marguerite’s blog editor Mike Ashley of the Mammoth Book of White Men Fail Mindbowing SF explains that the stories he was looking for, those that blew his mind with science, aren’t usually written by women, and therefore that’s [...]

August 4th, 2009 | Tags: anthologies, editors, FAIL, Gender Imbalance In Publishing, Intersectionality, Race Imbalance in Publishing | Category: Blog Against Racism, Elsewhere on the Internets, Publishing, Rants | Comments (32)