The Pink & Blue Diaries

Deborah Siegel on gender, parenthood, writing, life.

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Coverflip: Call For An End To Gendered Book Covers With An Amazing Challenge (IMAGES)

Check it out, @shewritesdotcom, and thx to @WomensFunding for the heads up!

This is a great visual exercise in understanding a rather pervasive form of sexism: the design of book covers. Debates continue about “chick lit” and the dismissal of authors’ work based on whether it might be categorized as women’s fiction. In the midst of the conversation, author Maureen Johnson tweeted, “I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, ‘Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can read it. - signed, A Guy’” and the Coverflip Challenge was born.