Truth At The Intersection

Earlier this year I pledged to read 32 out of my 44 books by authors who are either non-white or non-male, 73% of my total. Juneteenth seems like an excellent day to see how I’m doing, given both its significance to my objective, as well as it being near the middle of the year.

As of today I’ve completed 24 books, ahead of my required pace of 22 by this date. Of those, 4 were written by white women, 2 by non-white women, and 10 by non-white men. That’s 16 in total, or 67%, which means I need to pick up my pace a bit to hit my goal. Of my current 3 books in flight, 2 are by women and 1 was written by a consortium of indigenous folks, so that’ll help things out. And I’ve plenty more qualifying books in my queue.

If you’re curious, you can see what I’m reading any time on my Goodreads page.