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01 Jan 2021—31 Dec 2021
Overview
(This is the challenge for 2021. You can also see the 2020 challenge and the 2022 challenge, including all the titles that readers have added for these same prompts!)
Looking to read authors from a variety of different racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender identities? Curious about how your reading breaks down along these lines? Me too!
These identities (and the boundaries between them) are complex and contested, and there's an inherent weirdness to categorizing other people. All designations I've made are based on my best effort to find how authors self-identify. The goal is to read works from a variety of perspectives, especially underrepresented ones, rather than giving more airtime to people from groups that need it least.
These identities are also not monoliths — there is no one "Black perspective," for example — which is why this isn't my only reading goal/challenge. It is the only one that the other reading challenges on The StoryGraph didn't cover, however.
Looking to read authors from a variety of different racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender identities? Curious about how your reading breaks down along these lines? Me too!
These identities (and the boundaries between them) are complex and contested, and there's an inherent weirdness to categorizing other people. All designations I've made are based on my best effort to find how authors self-identify. The goal is to read works from a variety of perspectives, especially underrepresented ones, rather than giving more airtime to people from groups that need it least.
These identities are also not monoliths — there is no one "Black perspective," for example — which is why this isn't my only reading goal/challenge. It is the only one that the other reading challenges on The StoryGraph didn't cover, however.
Author Identity Challenge 2021
36 participants (996 books)
STARTS: 01 Jan 2021ENDS: 31 Dec 2021
Overview
(This is the challenge for 2021. You can also see the 2020 challenge and the 2022 challenge, including all the titles that readers have added for these same prompts!)
Looking to read authors from a variety of different racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender identities? Curious about how your reading breaks down along these lines? Me too!
These identities (and the boundaries between them) are complex and contested, and there's an inherent weirdness to categorizing other people. All designations I've made are based on my best effort to find how authors self-identify. The goal is to read works from a variety of perspectives, especially underrepresented ones, rather than giving more airtime to people from groups that need it least.
These identities are also not monoliths — there is no one "Black perspective," for example — which is why this isn't my only reading goal/challenge. It is the only one that the other reading challenges on The StoryGraph didn't cover, however.
Looking to read authors from a variety of different racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender identities? Curious about how your reading breaks down along these lines? Me too!
These identities (and the boundaries between them) are complex and contested, and there's an inherent weirdness to categorizing other people. All designations I've made are based on my best effort to find how authors self-identify. The goal is to read works from a variety of perspectives, especially underrepresented ones, rather than giving more airtime to people from groups that need it least.
These identities are also not monoliths — there is no one "Black perspective," for example — which is why this isn't my only reading goal/challenge. It is the only one that the other reading challenges on The StoryGraph didn't cover, however.
