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Why You Should Absolutely Judge a Book by Its Cover

By Hanna Ziegler

April 11, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Why You Should Absolutely Judge a Book by Its Cover

The saying is “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but the truth is, we all do—and we’re actually supposed to. Someone designed that cover with specific intentions for you, the reader, to pull the book off the shelf and take a closer look. If I think about it too hard, I realize how shallow and materialistic I am as a reader and how hard a cover has to work just to get me to pick it up. My recent interest in cover design has to do with a challenge I’m undertaking this year to read at least thirty books with a main character who would be classified as a minority in America. Finding books that show this diversity on the cover is actually a lot more difficult than I expected.

Filed Under: Design Tagged With: book covers, Design, diversity, Everything Everything, Fans of the Impossible Life, Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit, Girl Stolen, Ink and Ashes, Liar, Not If I See You First, ooligan press, positive representation, representation, The Education of Margot Sanchez, The Hate U Give, The Walls Around Us, Want, When Dimple Met Rishi, YA

The Gender Gap in Academic Journal Authorship

By Kento Ikeda

April 9, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Gender Gap in Academic Journal Authorship

Some fields, such as mathematics and philosophy, have more than seven author credits given to men for every one given to women.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: academic publishing, discrimination, diversity, journal publishing, scholarly publishing, sexism

History as a Key to Representation

By Kento Ikeda

March 7, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

History as a Key to Representation

If history is really what makes humans human, it seems like the effort to be more respectful and inclusive of other peoples has to include the acknowledgement of and effort to learn about history.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: diversity, fiction, history, nonfiction, publishing

Choosing to Read Diverse Books

By Joanna Szabo @Joanna_Shwaba

November 27, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Choosing to Read Diverse Books

For most of my life, the majority of books I’ve read have been written by white men, from the picture books I grew up with to most of my favorite childhood series, and then almost everything I read as an English student throughout high school and college. It’s not that books by white men are all the same, or that they’re all bad. It’s that these books share a similar perspective. I had become so used to the white male viewpoint that I subconsciously recognized it as the standard.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: Angie Thomas, authors of color, book recs, choosing diverse books, diverse books, diverse reads, diversity, LGBTQ, Reading, reading in the age of Trump, representation, The Hate U Give, THUG, we need diverse books, WNDB, writers of color

Striving for Diversity: Reinvigorating the Ideas Behind Ooligan’s Mission Statement

By Maeko Bradshaw and Vi La Bianca @makosharkattack and @Vi_LaBianca

February 20, 2017 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Striving for Diversity: Reinvigorating the Ideas Behind Ooligan’s Mission Statement

Ooligan was approached by a fellow writer and editor who is involved in the Portland literary scene, which is often predominantly white. Where are the Asian, African American, Native American, and Latino writers he knows reside in this city?

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: diversity, literary community, Portland, publishing, writers of color

Representation in Nonfiction

By Kento Ikeda @kentoikeda

January 27, 2017 by Digital Content Leave a Comment

Representation in Nonfiction

There is no clear benchmark one can use to determine what is appropriate representation in global-minded nonfiction.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: demographics, diversity, non-fiction, representation

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