The Shukla Test

Unlike most entries in the Antiracist Book Club so far, this isn’t a post about my ideas. This is about the Shukla Test.

I found this article by Nikesh Shukla on the great site Media Diversity UK (“Tackling the Lack of Diversity in the UK Media and the Ubiquity of Whiteness”), which I follow on Twitter. Being a devotee of the Bechdel Test, I had already thought of my own version of the Shukla Test, but TV and fiction writer Nikesh Shukla deserves the credit and signal boost. Here’s the pith of...