25 February 2019
This past week has felt like a rough century in book publishing, especially if you're a woman of color in this traditionally white and monied industry. In many ways, it's still a 19th-century business, with an overall culture and compensation structure that reflect another era. In the United States, what "19th century" evokes for many white men is a time of even greater freedom, power, and absolute control. For everyone else, it's a complicated spectrum of misery and struggle. Their nostalgia is for a time when we weren't considered people.
