Diversity in Judging
Mar. 3rd, 2008 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julieandrewsI just found this on the Feminist SF blog.
World Fantasy Awards Judges Announced - oh look, all men
I thought Fantasy was more fifty-fifty, or even skewed more towards female writers and editors. So.. where are they?
Three judges might be a statistical anomaly, but, seriously, five?
World Fantasy Awards Judges Announced - oh look, all men
"[...]the World Fantasy Award judges are:
Peter Coleborn
Robert Hoge
Dennis L. McKiernan
Mark Morris
Steve Pasechnic
[...]
Look, I'm not saying that a group of white guys can't judge the World Fantasy Awards properly. Again, I am sure they are great. But it is 2008, people. 2008 and the arbiters of what is best are still a bunch of white men."
I thought Fantasy was more fifty-fifty, or even skewed more towards female writers and editors. So.. where are they?
Three judges might be a statistical anomaly, but, seriously, five?
