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LL McKinney says pre-order Nubia: Real One
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Thinking about how publishing purposefully positions Black authors to be in "competition" with each other while simultaneously tying us together so that if they sink one of us, they sink
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I don't support shows, movies, books, comics, etc. created by Black people just because they're Black. That's the surface level, quick to say reason that's understood by people aren't racist
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Okay, so, I'mma say a thing, and them I'm gonna go back to work. And this is going to be LONG but here we go. A number of people have
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Ok, so, first let me clarify a few things.When I say "stand-in bigotry," I mean characters act in some way that resembles bigotry in the real world, but it's not
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It's Monday, I just had buttered chicken, so let's talk about something that people don't tend to know but it should really be discussed more often: What it means when
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Right SO.When people say we need to #DisruptTexts, what they’re NOT saying is non-white readers can’t/don’t know how to/are incapable of/are too different too/aren’t smart enough to relate to white
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When I said I wasn’t reading books any white authors for the foreseeable future, this white woman got all offended. She said that was fairly racist and if I had
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Shock value at the expense of good, even if sometimes predictable, writing is just bad storytelling.A lesson all writers should take from #GameOfThrones and #The100 There's this notion that if
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A lot of publishers don’t know how to market to Black readers, and it shows. What I mean by this: publishers don’t know where to place ads, who to reach
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Stop giving dark-skinned characters blue/gree/gray/light eyes to signify being "special": 2020 Getting some questions, so lemme say this. There ARE actual people that have dark skin and blue or other
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Kirkus has a really weird relationship with books about Black American girls in contemporary fantasy settings, and...I think we need to talk about it. If I'm gonna be frank, Kirkus
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So, now that #JuneteenthBookFest is over, let's talk about the culture that surrounds some of these festivals out here. *settles into chair* I want to highlight an interview I did
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