1. “Diversity is not publishing the one story. It’s publishing multiple stories from people of diverse backgrounds.”

—Karissa Chen



2. “My main characters are not always black.”

—Sophfronia Scott



3. “Read less straight white men.”

—Natalie Eilbert



4. “We read. (And buy books.)”

—Lisa Lucas



5. “Get over it.”

—Susan Orlean



6. “Be honest.”

—Yahdon Israel



7. “Listen.”

—Lauren Hilger



8. “We owe you nothing.”

—Amanda Bullock



9. “Grow up.”

—Roxane Gay



10. “Look out the window.”

—Jane Ciabattari



11. “Sit down and let us abolish you.”

—Franny Choi



12. “Ain’t nobody got time for that!?!”

—Ru Freeman



13. “Chill.”

—Morgan Parker



14. “Asian American author with an Asian American editor.

—Matthew Salesses



15. “She’s coming for you.”

—Emily Bell and Amelia Gray



16. “Plz stop.”

—Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and T Kira Madden



17. “We are not tokens.

—Rowan Hisayo Buchanan and T Kira Madden



18. “You have not doomed us. You’ve doomed yourselves.”

—Saeed Jones



19. “Pay attention to the world. (—Susan Sontag)”

—Jynne Dilling Martin



20. “Hire women. Diversity makes you strong.”

—Annelies Zijderveld



21. “We don’t need you.”

—Jayson P. Smith



22. “Take a vacation (a long one).

—Chelsea Reimann and Meg Day



23. “Don’t assume that you are at the center.”

—Cheryl Strayed

It’s no secret that lots of women work in publishing. But just how many more women work in publishing than men? In PW’s recent Salary Survey (Aug. 2) one statistic stuck out: 85% of publishing employees with less than three years of experience are women.



Total Responses: 1,584

70% Female 30% Male



Under 3 Years Experience: 164

85% Female 15% Male



3 to 6 Years Experience: 388

82% Female 18% Male

A number of writers have some messages for Straight White Male publishing Are you still buying the "oh, we are just poor homeless writers who only want to join the discourse and find a place at the table" propaganda? They are fascists, they want control, and any publisher who was foolish enough to permit these entryists a place at the table will soon find that he's been pushed to the side, if he hasn't been already.Diversity is self-destruction, because a house divided against itself cannot stand.Meanwhile, publishing is actually 74 percent female and rising . As recently as 2010, the industry was 70 percent female.That was then. This is now: "Women accounted for 74% of the publishing workforce and men only 26%."

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