Here’s a round-up of some of the posts I’ve read over the last couple of weeks that fit into the question of “what about the girls?” Some have been sent to me and others came up in my own daily reading. I’ve also included a post I cowrote with Preeti Chhibber at Book Riot at the end, which gives practical things you can do to promote female writers you love, be they published authors or budding creators.
If you’ve written something that fits recently, feel free to link to it in the comments. I’m staying away from linking to reviews, but any thoughtful commentary, round-up, or responses are totally worth a share here. I’ll let these do the talking for themselves:
- Women Carving Out A Place For Themselves in Sci Fi (a response)
- Girls Behind Bars Tell Their Stories (I just finished Ross’s book and it’s so, so good. Get this for your collections. It’s worth the price. Ross does this all on his own.)
Thank you for linking to the piece about female illustrators. I'm not sure if it's encouraging or disheartening to see the same conversation repeated across so many different fields (some of both maybe?), but there's so much that I recognize from the conversations around YA and SFF.
I've been thinking about that piece since I read it and the parallels among all different arenas is … frustrating and at the same time, somewhat comforting. That this isn't happening in a vacuum is good to know, from the standpoint that it highlights how pervasive these issues are. We know we aren't making them up or seeing issues where there are none.
Thank you for this series. It's been really enlightening.