Has anyone taken the Challenge?

[netmouse]

In February 2015, K. Tempest Bradford issued A Challenge: Stop Reading White Straight Cis Male Authors for One Year.

Did any of you try that? Or something close?

If you're still looking for things to read, there's a list at the bottom of that article, or you can subscribe to Tempest's web series on her Challenge page.

I sometimes post reviews of what I'm reading on Goodreads. I will try to make more mentions of things here.

What are you reading?

What did you read in the past year that maybe changed your perspective on things?

Comments

[yarram.livejournal.com]

Most of my reading just so happens to qualify for the challenge, because so few of my preferred authors are Straight Cis White Males. I'm currently reading the English translation of 刘慈欣 Liú Cíxīn's Three-Body trilogy and enjoying it, though it's got problems when viewed through a feminist lens. Previously I read the latest installment of Seanan McGuire's InCryptid series, which was a fun romp. And before that was Okorafor's Binti and Akata Witch, which were enjoyable reading, though there are some bumps in the plotting and writing.

None of these works particularly changed my perspective, though Okorafor's writing did introduce me to concepts I'm unfamiliar with (because I'm not Nigerian), incidentally broadening my knowledge of that corner of the world via Google.

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

If you're interested in Nigeria, you might enjoy Okorafor's book Lagoon, and I also highly recommend Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.