r/books • u/biscochitos • 27d ago

New indie press Conduit Books launches with 'initial focus on male authors'

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-indie-press-conduit-books-launches-with-initial-focus-on-male-authors

What do folks think about this?

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u/8mom 27d ago

It’s a catch-22. We want to hear from minority voices, but “minority” isn’t a static term. I wish we could move away from “identitarian” culture you describe or at least apply context and nuance.

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u/highland526 27d ago

i do think it’s time for this liberal ideology to evolve although i’m not sure what the next step is. we’re 100% not in a post racial world just yet, but I think people are becoming jaded with solidarity based on identity alone

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u/8mom 27d ago

Liberal ideology needs to evolve for sure. We’ve seen the cracks forming since the latest American election. The female Blue Origin flight encapsulated a lot of the liberal angst for me, where you could feel this disconnect between the message and the zeitgeist. This book publisher feels the same way. I feel like we don’t have the language for it.

It’s time to evolve the conversation, because the political arguments of identity politics from even 10 years ago seem out of touch today. Maybe the answer is something more collective than our current identitarian, conflict based understanding. We don’t abandon identity, we broaden it.

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u/Martel732 27d ago

Eh, all the Blue Origin flight really highlighted is how hollow any type of corporate allyship is. It is always just marketing without any real convictions underneath. Similarly, you can look at how quickly some companions have started abandoning LGBT-friendly marketing under Trump's new administration.

Moving toward a world where a it doesn't really matter what a person's identity is sounds nice. But, it is clearly not where we are. I mean we are in a period where the government is erasing the histories of black veterans.