#PublishingPaidMe is a hashtag, used mainly on Twitter, and a grassroots campaign to expose racial disparities in pay in the publishing industry.
McKinney on June 6, 2020, and culminated in the development of a crowdsourced Google document in which authors shared their advance payments.
The document showed relatively lower advance payments offered to Black writers compared to their White counterparts.
[1] Quickly after the hashtag went viral a Google Document was created and writers began crowdsourcing and sharing information about advances.
Although started in the US, within days the hashtag sparked conversations in France and the UK about racial disparity in publishing.