It’s always Caucasian people who say they don’t see race

A few years ago, I made the decision that I was going to primarily read fiction that was written by women.

There were a number of reasons which prompted this — my own burgeoning sense of feminism, a growing understanding that men were just ‘writers’, and those of the opposite sex were labelled as ‘women writers’, a nagging fear that the latter was somehow seen as lesser, and a sudden weariness with being forced to view the world through a male lens in mainstream art, from literature to movies to TV shows.

In 2016, I resolved to read more work by writers of colour, particularly by women of colour. I mentioned this on Twitter and was instantly criticised by a white man.