FAQ Change: Ways to Participate

[sanguinity]

This isn't a big change to the FAQ -- it's just duplicating some info from the community profile into the FAQ itself. (My initial assumption when writing the FAQ back when was that everyone would have seen the community profile first -- after all, that's where the FAQ used to be. However, in hindsight, that assumption was just plain silly.)

So, in the name of letting y'all know every time I make a change to the FAQ:

Do I have to read fifty books?

No, you don't. There are at least three ways to participate in the comm. Choose what best suits you:

• Do the 50 Books Challenge: read fifty books by authors of color in the course of a year. Read your books, count your books, and post your write-ups/reviews/impressions.
  
  
• Do a variant of the challenge: commit to fifty books, but take more than a year if you need to. Or read fifty poems or short stories in a year. Or don't set a target number, but keep count of the books by authors of color that you read in a year. Or some other variant that makes sense for you and pushes you to read more authors of color.
  
  
• Skip the challenge: post recommendations and/or reviews, participate in discussions, and otherwise encourage people to read works by authors of color.

Basically, we just want people to read works by authors of color. We’re pretty open to any degree of participation that furthers that end.