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This author is ravenous about diversity. It's unsettling. If there was... Just an article about what cool trans or Latin sci-fi I could read, I'd buy a book. Right now.
Found it: I had to scroll down so far, but they ask some cool people what books to read: https://19thnews.org/2023/09/hispanic-heritage-months-books-reading-list/
What these meta diversity journalists forget is that I buy books and read to relax. When I find out a world is written in a closed-minded (ie. White guy who's never dealt with any bullshit in life) lens, it puts me out of my comfort zone.
The point of reading a book written by someone like me actually isn't about politics. It's actually about getting back to that comfort. The fantasies they can spin up are realistic to how I see the world. I can sit back, relax, and be immersed.
As is the norm, there's no mention at all of, or effort to even attempt to investigate, the demographics of the applicant pool/people who wish to pursue the field as a career.
You can't even have a cursory analysis of whether discrimination exists without it.