Thread by @BlueBirdTail

#TLDR - if you're a woman or from a #workingclass or 'minority' background in the UK, your exclusion from #publishing is not by accident it's #ByDesign. Inclusion programmes deal w/ symptoms; for change, we need redesign. (co @BareLit & @rlfwriters)

jamesmurua.com/long-read-nii-…

"They didn’t stop to consider the picture that includes what we have been taught to euphemistically call “side effects”, “human cost”, “collateral damage”." #ByDesign

"But consciousness is hard work and most of the privileged are unwilling to do the work."

#ByDesign

"There is a reason why the author of Silas Marner called herself George Eliot – she was working to beat the design."

#ByDesign

"Part of that design is editorial approaches that seek to distil and limit what Asian, woman, queer, black, and working class experiences are." 

#ByDesign

"...something as fundamental as jacket copy, when loaded with the labels and presumptions of privilege can transform the fortunes of a book, can transform the trajectory of a writer’s career."

#ByDesign

"...we need established organisations – if they are going to claim diversity – to actually commit and enable it from within – not just special prizes, but editors, marketers…"

#ByDesign

"The truth is, for many creatives from the margins, we hold on to our authentic, non-clichéd, non-labelled voices at a price."

#ByDesign

"The redesign must happen #ByDesign – and it will be the equivalent of replacing the tools in the master’s box; it will be like leaving the master’s house ostensibly intact, but forever changed.

… we should call it interior design, because the change must happen within."

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