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Look at their list of published authors.
>https://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/
The only possibly white and straight authors were Steve Beard, Joshua Bellin, Dan Koboldt, Eric Brown and Keith Brooke after the changes in 2021 that I'll discuss.
>Ben Alderson
Writes male on male porn.
>Geoff Ryman
Known on wikipedia for writing LGBT fiction/literature
>Chris Faraday
His most well known is an LGBT sci-fi with two girls (Trine), or the other with a male and male.
>Al Hess
"He writes cozy and uplifting stories with queer, trans, and neurodiverse representation."
>Keith Brooke
I mentioned Brooke as a candidate for straight white males, but he is also an established author since 1990. This is very different from a published a non-established author, as he was already published long before the company was founded.
>Eric Brown
Also published before the company was founded in 2007.
Before 2020 are more white male authors, underrepresented but still close. Here are their submission pages:
>2009
>https://web.archive.org/web/20091220231128/http://angryrobotbooks.com/about-us/submissions/
In 2009, a year after release, no diversity quota.
>Sep 14, 2019
>https://web.archive.org/web/20190914044505/https://angryrobotbooks.com/submissions/
Still no diversity quota. The earliest archived page where this changes is
>Nov 29 2021
>https://web.archive.org/web/20211129152330/https://angryrobotbooks.com/submissions/
So let's see, after the change, the first published author was a black woman named Denise Crittendon. After that, only 5 out of 35 authors were white males not explicitly writing about queer issues. If including all white males including the extremely dubiously white, it brings it to 11/35 authors being white and male.
Of the 104 authors before then, 56 were white males. This means that immediately after the alteration to policy, white male acceptance plummeted from 54% to 31%, or a whopping 14% when we do not count the ones that are gay and explicitly write LGBT fiction. This alteration happened between Oct 21 and Nov 29, and led to the immediate exclusion of almost 2/3rds of all white males who wanted to be published. W P Wiles was the last author before the change, starting with him to the next page (2021-2018) has 14 straight white male published authors out of 29 total, or almost precisely 50%. The change was surgical, immediate, and clearly exclusionary. It cannot be argued that the purpose was financial on their part, because they were clearly willing to publish these authors before the change when considering profitability: The change in policy was explicitly racist and exclusionary, almost entirely eliminating white males authors altogether.
These policies are similar everywhere, they reflect the industries, scholarships, the agents particular interests, publishers, all exherting a top-down racist and exclusionary policy towards white males. White males are being discriminated against at every step of the way.
>https://angryrobotbooks.com/our-authors/
The only possibly white and straight authors were Steve Beard, Joshua Bellin, Dan Koboldt, Eric Brown and Keith Brooke after the changes in 2021 that I'll discuss.
>Ben Alderson
Writes male on male porn.
>Geoff Ryman
Known on wikipedia for writing LGBT fiction/literature
>Chris Faraday
His most well known is an LGBT sci-fi with two girls (Trine), or the other with a male and male.
>Al Hess
"He writes cozy and uplifting stories with queer, trans, and neurodiverse representation."
>Keith Brooke
I mentioned Brooke as a candidate for straight white males, but he is also an established author since 1990. This is very different from a published a non-established author, as he was already published long before the company was founded.
>Eric Brown
Also published before the company was founded in 2007.
Before 2020 are more white male authors, underrepresented but still close. Here are their submission pages:
>2009
>https://web.archive.org/web/20091220231128/http://angryrobotbooks.com/about-us/submissions/
In 2009, a year after release, no diversity quota.
>Sep 14, 2019
>https://web.archive.org/web/20190914044505/https://angryrobotbooks.com/submissions/
Still no diversity quota. The earliest archived page where this changes is
>Nov 29 2021
>https://web.archive.org/web/20211129152330/https://angryrobotbooks.com/submissions/
So let's see, after the change, the first published author was a black woman named Denise Crittendon. After that, only 5 out of 35 authors were white males not explicitly writing about queer issues. If including all white males including the extremely dubiously white, it brings it to 11/35 authors being white and male.
Of the 104 authors before then, 56 were white males. This means that immediately after the alteration to policy, white male acceptance plummeted from 54% to 31%, or a whopping 14% when we do not count the ones that are gay and explicitly write LGBT fiction. This alteration happened between Oct 21 and Nov 29, and led to the immediate exclusion of almost 2/3rds of all white males who wanted to be published. W P Wiles was the last author before the change, starting with him to the next page (2021-2018) has 14 straight white male published authors out of 29 total, or almost precisely 50%. The change was surgical, immediate, and clearly exclusionary. It cannot be argued that the purpose was financial on their part, because they were clearly willing to publish these authors before the change when considering profitability: The change in policy was explicitly racist and exclusionary, almost entirely eliminating white males authors altogether.
These policies are similar everywhere, they reflect the industries, scholarships, the agents particular interests, publishers, all exherting a top-down racist and exclusionary policy towards white males. White males are being discriminated against at every step of the way.
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