{"id":15040,"date":"2012-02-29T06:07:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15040"},"modified":"2012-02-29T06:07:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T14:07:44","slug":"vidas-2011-count-is-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15040","title":{"rendered":"Vida&#8217;s 2011 Count is Up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vidaweb.org\/the-count\">the results<\/a>\u00a0are not much different from last year. Women are still profoundly under represented in literary magazine publishing. This is not surprising, since as Erin Belieu writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]e know that significant cultural change takes time.<\/p>\n<p>We also know that this is a conversation that\u2019s not going away; when we talk to other writers, when we talk to our writing students,\u00a0we know things are in the process of changing for the better,\u00a0that our literary culture\u2019s consciousness has been raised. And we believe we\u2019ve begun to see hopeful signs. Yes, many literary outlets still produced their phallocentric Best Books list this year. But notice how careful most of them were to create some context for their lists\u2019 inherent subjectivity. \u00a0The word \u201cBest\u201d now has a permanent asterisk next to it, no matter where you line up in our writing community\u2019s gender debate.\u00a0And to acknowledge your bias is one step toward opening your mind. We\u2019ve come a long way since\u00a0<em>Publishers\u2019 Weekly<\/em>\u00a0breezily dismissed the total absence of women in their top ten list of 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wrote about why the count matters to me personally in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\/2011\/02\/16\/why-vidas-the-count-matters-to-me\/\">this post<\/a>, and I am happy and humbled (really) that Vida published a couple of quotes from it with their charts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cross posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\">It&#8217;s All Connected<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and the results\u00a0are not much different from last year. Women are still profoundly under represented in literary magazine publishing. This is not surprising, since as Erin Belieu writes: [W]e know that significant cultural change takes time. We also know that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15041,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15040\/revisions\/15041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}