#OwnVoices

Nadine Kaadan

Nadinekaadan

This week is #RefugeeWeek2020 and I would like to urge everyone, especially teachers and librarians, to pick their suggested reading list very wisely. I just finished reading a bestselling book

Happy Holl-Zabé-s

ZREllor

The goal of #ownvoices as a movement is not to create a concrete set of rules for who can write what. The goal is to alter a publishing status quo

ardo

ArdoOmer

So February 17th is #IReadCanadian Day and I want to remind everyone that Canadians also include marginalized folks such as BIPOC, disabled folks, LGBTQ+ folks etc. Getting Canadians to read

ChiariChey

ChiariChey

Hey NT writers,If you watched Rain Man or read a book from 1972 that inspired you to write about that autistic toddler who finally spoke or that one kid you

Alice Wong

SFdirewolf

Wowwww. By @a_h_reaume:"To hope as a disabled person is to always already know that your hope is likely to be in vain since ableism or infrastructures or systems or norms

Danika Stone

Danika_Stone

Not sure what Canadian #childrensbooks to choose? Here are ten of my FAVE #Canadian authors that you should consider for this event. 1. @jordynhtaylor (Toronto) and her #historicalfiction #YA debut

WeNeedDiverseBooks

diversebooks

The @CCBCwisc has released the results of their 2019 survey on diversity in children's books: http://ow.ly/IaRJ50AiAvx We thank them for this invaluable work, note their commitment to adding Arab/Arab Americans in

Emily Forney

EmilyKaitlinnn

So I’ve been noticing this trend in my queries where ppl try to (marginalize?) bait me. Stories are presented as ownvoices and include a BIPOC or disabled MC, but later

Amanda B-S

AmandaWorking

I want to share two really nice things that just happened. I'm part of a small 10-person group working on a #wkdev tool.Folks who created the initial "user profile" for

Ana Mardoll

AnaMardoll

I wrote a thread about ownvoices last night, but I was unclear on a point and so I want to redo it here.To be clear: I don't think anyone should

Sara Grochowski

thehidingspot

I recently got in an argument with an old bookstore colleague about how I think booksellers, generally and always, should commit to stocking books from a variety of voices, particularly

Marieke Nijkamp

mariekeyn

EVEN IF WE BREAK giveaway, disability edition!Win a signed hardcover of EVEN IF WE BREAK + one #criplit book of your choice! To enter: RT & like!For bonus entries:

Tashie Bhuiyan

tashiebhuiyan

PSA: stop policing ownvoices stories if someone is writing based on their lived experiences, then you don’t get to tell them that their experience is wrong, even if it doesn’t

XIRAN, Chinese History Memer

XiranJayZhao

so a few other POC authors and I have made threads on this recently and I've seen us get accused of promoting "nazi-level racial purity" in books and being ABLEIST

Ada Hoffmann

xasymptote

Fuck it.AUTISTIC AUTHOR POSITIVITY THREAD YOON HA LEE!Does things with space opera that will make your EYES CROSS! Does them with fantasy short fiction too! Nominated for the Hugo and

Sawyer (she/her)

Sawyer_Laine1

Once again I hope to read at least one book per month written by a disabled author! This is a thread with titles and reviews for such books I read

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