#vidacount

[womenintranslation]

The 2018 VIDA Count is out!

And we’ll keep doing our best to supplement their work with our own look focusing on literature in English translation . . .

[womenintranslation]

PEN International — PEN/VIDA count announced to monitor gender disparity in the…

26 September 2018 - PEN International and VIDA: Women in Literary Arts announced today a new collaboration, the PEN VIDA Count, to monitor gender disparities in

Although we here at WiT look more at book publishing and the status of authors and translators, it’s good to know PEN International (and its many national chapters) and VIDA are teaming up to look at magazine and journal bylines worldwide.

[womenindetectivefiction-blog]

This year, I had the opportunity to work with some fierce, hardworking feminists from across the U.S. to help count for the 2014 VIDA Count.               We did 3 counts:  the fifth annual 2014 VIDA Count, the second annual 2014 Larger Literary Landscape VIDA Count and our first annual 2014 Women of Color VIDA Count. You can check out the results at the link above. It has definitely raised important questions about the state of race and ethnicity in the literary landscape. 

[booksireadbywomen]

"The visibility and status of women’s writing is important precisely because of a web of marginalization across all areas of life. If women’s voices are always peripheral to male voices intoning from the center of culture, then their voices are peripheral on all issues: the pay gap, consent, harassment, rape, domestic violence, reproductive freedom, the glass ceiling, childcare. The obscuring of women’s voices in media platforms, however elite, however niche, is part of the obscuring of their voices in general; and a lack of commitment to, or an inability to hear, their voices in literary culture is related to the same lacks and inabilities in relation to their voices in harassment, in sex, in courtrooms, and in the workplace." -Katherine Angel's important article, "Gender, blah, blah, blah" in the LA Review of Books. Angel's words here explain exactly why I started this blog.

[thecommonmag]

Inspired by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and the 2013 VIDA Count, we've conducted our own VIDA-style count of the writers and artists who contributed to our 2013 print issues (Issues 05 and 06). Additionally, we've done a preliminary count of Issue 07 (forthcoming in April--more soon!). We encourage other journals to conduct and share their own counts!

            For more on VIDA, their yearly counts of literary magazine contributors, and their mission to "explore critical and cultural perceptions of writing by women through meaningful conversation and the exchange of ideas among existing and emerging literary communities," click here.

[pdxreview]

Inspired by yesterday's VIDA count for 2013, web editor Alex Dannemiller put together a quick rundown of our own female and male numbers of published contributors.

[weavemagazine-blog]

Here's a nifty info-graphic* with Weave's Count for issues 1-10 and overall. and thanks to VIDA for the expanded 2013 Count!  http://www.vidaweb.org/the-count-2013/ #wecount #VIDACount *U = Unspecified and/or neither female nor male (didn't want to use "O" for "other" for a bunch of reasons)

[thecommonmag]

Book Review Byline Tally Shows Gender Disparity

In its annual count of male and female bylines in book reviews, magazines and literary journals, VIDA, a women'€™s literary organization, revealed that in 2013, the publications still largely favored men over women.

The VIDA Count is out! How did your favorite journals fare?