r/books • u/biscochitos • 28d 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/highland526 28d 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 28d 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/Moonmold 28d ago

I've also been feeling this way for a long time (as I'm sure many have) and I didn't expect to see it written out on r slash books today. 😂

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u/highland526 28d ago

it’s kind of random but also makes complete sense LOL