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What Does Lee and Low’s “Diversity Baseline Survey” Reveal About Equity in Publishing?

By Jenna Amundson

March 16, 2022 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

What Does Lee and Low’s “Diversity Baseline Survey” Reveal About Equity in Publishing?

Many people are familiar with the term diversity, and many companies have created Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committees or positions to help move toward a more inclusive and equitable workspace. But what about publishing? How does equity play a role in publishing, and has there been any progress towards achieving more equity within the publishing industry?

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: equity, lee and low, literary equity, publishing

Ooligan Is Paying It Forward

By Ivory Fields @unicorn_bae

February 7, 2022 by OoliganPress

Ooligan Is Paying It Forward

Publishing companies started calling for submissions from marginalized authors during the summer protests in 2020 but have done little to actually address the inequities that marginalized authors face. As a teaching press, Ooligan understands how inaccessible even the most basic publishing information is.

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: BIPOC, community, equity, inclusion, IPRC, knowledge, manuscript, power, proposals, Query letter, submissions, teaching, Willamette Writers, workshop, YWCA

Digital Skills Empower Publishing Professionals

By Stephanie Johnson Lawson

September 27, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Digital Skills Empower Publishing Professionals

Dr. Kathi Berens opened up our digital skills class for a discussion about the complexities surrounding digital media platforms, synthesizing the article with her belief that “basic code literacy is an extraordinarily empowering skill set that…gives users a level self-control and freedom that people don’t have if they rely entirely on third parties to represent their public speech.” Her point parallels one made by Michelle Goldberg in the aforementioned article: while she agrees with the decisions made that ultimately de-platformed the former President, she also states that people “don’t have a constitutional right to have their speech disseminated by private companies,” and that it is “dangerous to have a handful of callow young tech titans in charge of who has a megaphone and who does not.” We are not political leaders, but publishers are global leaders; how, and on whose terms, we use our voices matters.

Filed Under: Digital Tagged With: adtech, basic skills, computer science, CSS, digital literacy, equity, goals, HTML, Kathi Berens, learning, Michelle Goldberg, Portland State, publishing, surveillance capitalism, writing

How We Updated Our Mission Statement

By Michael Shymanski

June 21, 2021 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

How We Updated Our Mission Statement

Clarity, brevity, and utility were our main goals in updating our mission statement, and our group is incredibly proud of the work we’ve done. In moving towards our values of inclusivity, however, the mission statement is just the first step. Updating our mission statement is at the core of things that Ooligan Press wants to accomplish in terms of shaping literature and the publishing industry, and our work is still cut out for us.

Filed Under: Acquisitions, Manager Monday, Ooligan at large Tagged With: copywriting, diverse authorships, diversity, equity, group writing, inclusion, mission statement, Ooligan, Pacific Northwest, PNW, team writing

Transcending “Business As Usual” in Publishing

By Shannon Gilb

November 20, 2020 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Transcending “Business As Usual” in Publishing

This is a call to action for publishers, editors, and writers alike to think boldly and critically when engaging with social justice movements, specifically, the Black Lives Matter movement.

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: anti-racism, equity, mission statement, public relations, publishing, social justice, Social Media

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