{"id":4620,"date":"2013-05-22T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=4620"},"modified":"2013-05-22T16:41:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:41:52","slug":"womentoread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2013\/05\/22\/womentoread\/","title":{"rendered":"#womentoread"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nKari Sperring is fed up with the lack of attention to women writers in science fiction and fantasy and is doing something about it<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

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\nSo, yesterday I decided to indulge in another round of that intermittent habit, poking the internet with a stick, but starting a hashtag — #womentoread — over on Twitter. I asked people to recommend sff by women. The response was astonishing: I’d hoped that some of my friends would pick it up, but… One of the very first to do so was Seanan Mcguire (Thank you, Seanan!) and it just took off.\n<\/p>\n

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\nBut why now, exactly. I’ve done something like this before (last year with the fantasy by women thing). That’s part of it. I am an activist to my bones: it’s coded into me to try and do something when I see an injustice. And I know far too many really great women writers who are underrated, under-reviewed, under-recognised. I see male writers praised for doing things in books which women did before them, which women are doing as well as them — but the women are ignored and sidelined.\n<\/p>\n

\nYou can share the idea. You can write a review of a book by a woman. You can blog about a woman writer you admire. You can post a list of links to the websites of women writers you love. It doesn’t have to be ep;ic fantasy or even sff. It can be any genre. And then, please, go to twitter and tweet that link with the #womentoread hashtag. If you’re not on twitter, post the link here in the comments and I will tweet it for you.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nNina Allen took this idea and prepared a list of 101 women writers to read<\/a>, which is a good start to look for new writers to try, as is James Nicoll’s list<\/a>. This is not the first time of course that the lack of visibility of women in sf&f has come up; two years ago Nicola Griffith started the Russ pledge<\/a> in a similar attempt to get more discussion of women sf&f writers going. Some people, like me<\/a>, took her up on it but of course such grassroots attemps take time to perculate upwards. A new initiative like #womentoread may help get some more momentum behind the continuing struggle to get more attention to women.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhat I want to do with this is not to set up my own list of women writers, but rather do some posts highlighting some of my favourite writers, perhaps on a weekly basis; I’m thinking Women Writers Wednesday. I’ve been trying to read more female writers in the past couple of years, but a bit more systemic attention won’t do any harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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