I just wanted to say thank for all the posts about naming Black female authors because it really made me realize i hadn’t been making an effort to remember or absorb anything about the authors of the books I’d read. I read primarily on kindle these days and if you sync it to a Goodreads not only will it open to the first page of the story it will automatically mark as finished on the last one (skipping any acknowledgments, author bios etc). I hadn’t even stopped to consider what a spoonfed content mill that had become for me. Paying more attention to the authors of the books I read really helped me engage more with the books I was reading and what experiences the authors may have brought to them. I know that wasn’t precisely what your goal was with those posts but I appreciate it all the same.
honestly it started from a place of like. pushing against complacent white supremacy in hobby reading but now I’ve opened this whole other can of worms discovering that a lot of people have just zero regard for the people who make the art they engage with? which is uuuh. you know, deeply uncool. so it’s very cool to hear that this has jogged something for you in how you’re reading! I hope you’re finding out some neat stuff about authors!