Do you start with a negative, or with a positive?
This was a response to someone in the thread of my previous post. But I wanted to pull it up top, because it touches on the core of my frustration with this whole discussion
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what I'm asking for is people to sit down together and start hashing out ideas as to how to improve the situation
My point is that people have been hashing out ideas to improve the situation, and what you're asking is basically the equivalent of asking people to ignore modern tire technology in order to reinvent the wheel. The first thing that needs to happen is to ensure that people are on the same page. Once that happens, then it's much easier to work from the foundation that has already been laid.
If you want links that are specific to SF, here's the ones that I pulled up off the top of my head: Diversity in SF/F Markets, How To Promote Diversity in Fiction Markets, Gender Bias at Fantasy magazine, and Realms of Fantasy slush reader weighs in on gender imbalance in publishing.
Anyway, I gotta get to school so sorry for ending this abruptly. Please do look over the links, and hopefully others will be along to point out other resources that they know about (actually, another thing you might want to try is the FeministSF Wiki).
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