Musing on how white people are now congratulating themselves for reading diversely. ALL avid Black readers are widely read as there’s so few books frm Black voices. Seeing white readers show off their ‘diverse’ books when WE are assumed to not read broadly, epitomises privilege

I’ve always read everything I could my hands on and am now realising other people could be more selective. A lot of people haven’t read broadly across Achebe, Seabald, Marian Keyes, Amis, Allende, Morrison, Emecheta but are still talking about Austen from their Upper 6th essay...

This WOKE LIT business is proving publishing’s built upon 18th C European ideals & culture (I’ve read them all) & this idea of what’s ‘good’ is through a blurred, short sighted lens. To be marginalised in society gives you the broadest perspectives which should be celebrated.

This narrowness of what’s read & still having publishing jobs has been flabbergasting to me. The fetishisation of what reading looks like is totally disrespectful to our wider societies. Storytelling is deep rooted in many cultures & modern reading is a recent construct.

All this to say HAPPY MONDAY! My eye is firmly on the prize of equality, individuality, inclusivity & parity. I exist to break the barriers and open the gates!!