Comics reading is SO hard. In a project I'm doing, compiling reviews of SF/F media and the gender breakdown, I decided to count comic reviews as SF/F reviews and the writers and artists as "authors". The numbers are bleak. It's dudes as far as the eye can see, on the writing and artistic side. There's definitely more work involved if you want to read women-produced content in comics, as far as I can tell.
I read five books this year (I am definitely jealous of your totals) which was pretty balanced, but in my school reading it was almost all men. SIGH, lit theory. However, I also earned a degree, so I am trying to go easy on myself. The final push and now I have tons of time to read ladies. \o/ I am a little nervous; this project will be the first time I've held myself publicly accountable for my reading diversity since 2008 when I tried to talk about the lack of diversity in my reading and was accused of shaming other people and making them feel bad for not trying to improve their own reading diversity (oh gosh thinking about it makes my head hurt). I hope this endeavor goes a little better.
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I read five books this year (I am definitely jealous of your totals) which was pretty balanced, but in my school reading it was almost all men. SIGH, lit theory. However, I also earned a degree, so I am trying to go easy on myself. The final push and now I have tons of time to read ladies. \o/ I am a little nervous; this project will be the first time I've held myself publicly accountable for my reading diversity since 2008 when I tried to talk about the lack of diversity in my reading and was accused of shaming other people and making them feel bad for not trying to improve their own reading diversity (oh gosh thinking about it makes my head hurt). I hope this endeavor goes a little better.