A funny thing happened on Twitter to me this past week. A woman was aggressively calling me out for tweeting about #SarahDessen. It was strange and out of the ordinary how persistent she was, and she seemed to be closely monitoring her Twitter account, replying almost instantly every time I responded. Some of her tweets…
“White Feminist” YA author throws a giant tantrum & all her YA author friends attack a college student & calls up their university & complains because her book got passed over for black authors in favor of a more mature curriculum. @floricomant on Twitter It looks like #sarahdessen did a search and saw this than…
Racism in the United States has existed since the colonial era, when white Americans were given legally or socially sanctioned privileges and rights while these same rights were denied to other races and minorities. from Wikipedia Today, with the help of Bethany Edwards, founder of Biracial Bookworms, and her daughter Havana, we are tackling…
As the daughter of a Chinese immigrant, I feel compelled to write in support of Amélie Wen Zhao. She immigrated to the U.S. at age 18 from China. Chasing her dreams, she wrote while a professional in finance, and won from a YA Pitch on Twitter, a 3 book deal from Delacourt worth in the neighborhood…
I did not attend the ALA Midwinter Conference 2019 but I follow it, like all KidLit bloggers, to see who won the ALA book awards. In following the tweets, I saw some ugly racism that I want to cover today: 1. Let’s start with a baseline of whiteness in librarians versus the general population of…