"The game has always been rigged: who gets to speak, whose voices get the platforms to amplify their..."

“The game has always been rigged: who gets to speak, whose voices get the platforms to amplify their truths, propositions, and realities has always been determined by a violent hierarchical ranking. To pretend that somehow publishing is built on simply locating and advancing the “best voices” is to pretend that the literary world is somehow removed from a country that ranks and others and decimates entire populations—so too does the literary world, which is made up of this same country’s citizens.”

- Amy King in Equity
in Publishing: What Should Editors Be Doing?
(via richincolor)