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

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

I've not 100% taken the challenge, but I guess something close, I'm trying to make sure that when I try new authors, those new authors are not White, Straight, Cis Male. I do have a conflict in this, though, as I'm a member of a book club that is focused on reading "great" works -- and far too many of the (western) classics are by WSCMs.

So far this year, this has resulted in me reading books by:

Katharine Addison
Elizabeth Bear
Jacqueline Carey
Kate Griffin
Laurie J. Marks
Kristine Smith
Megan Whelan Turner
K. B. Spengler
Sofia Samatar
Genevieve Valentine

The club hasn't done too badly this year:
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (whiteness unclear)
Ralph Ellison
Virginia Woolf
Lewis Carroll (likely WSCM)
Sun Tzu
Kazuo Ishiguro

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

Have you by chance read Redwood and Wildfire, by Andrea Hairston? I'd be interested to know what you make of it.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

I have not. Assuming it is available, I can add it to my to-buy-and-read list.

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

Yup. You can get it at Amazon.com, or directly from the publisher at Aqueduct Press (http://www.aqueductpress.com/books/978-1-933500-52-2.php)