All I want for Christmas is the death of lazy 'diversity' language

In light of last week’s Penguin ethnicity pay gap report, their first-ever following in the footsteps of Hachette’s 2019 iteration, it seems like the perfect moment to reconsider the publishing industry’s approach to those vague, catch-all acronyms and terms that are so often used interchangeably: BAME, BIPOC, POC, ethnicity, diversity, and the like. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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