{"id":65830,"date":"2015-03-15T10:59:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T18:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65830"},"modified":"2015-03-15T11:01:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T19:01:36","slug":"are-you-reading-too-many-books-by-straight-white-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65830","title":{"rendered":"Are you reading too many books by straight white men?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaim Amalek writes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reading <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/men\/thinking-man\/11470985\/Are-you-reading-too-many-books-by-straight-white-men.html\">this article<\/a> (in part) led me to a new acronym that all of you should learn, as the ***** who control our culture are certain to seize upon it: &#8220;QUILTBAG- QUILTBAG is an acronym. It stands for Queer\/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Transgender\/Transsexual, Bisexual, Allied\/Asexual, Gay\/Genderqueer. It is meant to be a more inclusive term than GLBT\/LGBT and to be more pronounceable (and memorable) than some of the other variations or extensions on the GLBT\/LGBT abbreviation.&#8221; (The Queer Dictionary)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The main characters&#8230; will be part of the QUILTBAG, neuro-diverse, disabled, from non-Western cultures, people of color, or in some other way not the typical straight, white, cis-gendered, able-bodied characters we see all over the place.&#8221; &#8211; from a Kirkus Reviews synopsis of an SFF anthology&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If Chaim Amalek were starting all over, this is where he would plant the pole of his flag.<\/p>\n<p>Straight white Christian men need to establish their own publishing houses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaim Amalek writes: Reading this article (in part) led me to a new acronym that all of you should learn, as the ***** who control our culture are certain to seize upon it: &#8220;QUILTBAG- QUILTBAG is an acronym. It stands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaim-amalek","category-homophobia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65833,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65830\/revisions\/65833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}