Gender Discrimination and the Publishing Industry

This is a grad school paper I wrote in 2009. The publishing industry seems less biased toward cishet white male authors now, at least in part thanks to independent presses. Admittedly, that might have a lot to do with what books catch my eye. It’s finally much easier to find an abundance of queer authors and characters. However, nowadays organized fascist bigots — including politicians such as the governor of Florida — are banning and attacking authors and subjects that aren’t from a cishet white male Xian perspective.