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This is my attempt to sum up some of the suggestions collected in our #rethinkingdiversity conversations today - please feel free to add to the thread:
Take literature (events) out of the centres and partner up with community-based initiatives. #rethinkingdiversity – great examples from @STWevents @writingwestmids @OWNITLDN @mkrtxt
And just have 'diverse' panels. "Normalise it instead of signposting it." Shantel Edwards
And just have 'diverse' panels. "Normalise it instead of signposting it." Shantel Edwards
Make the “secret society of publishing” more accessible and transparent. #rethinkingdiversity
Use alternative ways and venues to find new authors and new staff. #rethinkingdiversity
Look at the work and organisations of our panelists: @OWNITLDN @THRIVEHachette @NDMedienmacher @mkrtxt @BooksRound @_KnightsOf @BhamLitFest @iKontinental @54blog #rethinkingdiversity
Look at your own networks and make them more heterogenous. #rethinkingdiversity
Connect with the initiatives that have been working on issues of discrimination for a long time: in Germany for example @NDMedienmacher, @NDOrgs, @DiversityAC, @EOTO, @ISDBund, #Adefra – and pay the experts for their service #rethinkingdiversity
You can use services like the #Vielfaltfinder for free! It’s a database with BIPoC experts on all kinds of topics from quantum physics to literature: https://www.vielfaltfinder.de/ @BMFSFJ @NDOrgs @NDMedienmacher #demokratieleben #rethinkingdiversity
Examples for measures on a national level: collect data (Antidiskriminierungs- und Gleichstellungsdaten – see @Vielfalt_Ent) to reveal institutional discrimination and create measures to change those structures as a next step #rethinkingdiversity
finance research on structural discrimination in the cultural industries and include the expert activist groups in it #rethinkingdiversity
make it easier to found new publishing houses, agencies, bookshops and cultural initiatives (funding, tax cuts, etc.) #rethinkingdiversity
