#OWNVOICES

Emily Lloyd-Jones

I’m in a take-no-prisoners kind of mood, so let’s talk about OwnVoices disability rep in books. “We need more OwnVoices representation for disability,” is a thing I have heard many,

Adriana White, MLIS

From a thread of resources for people struggling with #OCD: some great book recommendations!I wanted to add a few more recommendations of my own to this very important list.The following

Sigh. I have yet to read a book where the (non #OwnVoices) disability rep was handled well. As a disabled person it is so exhausting when the only disability rep

Emery Lee - Preorder MEET CUTE DIARY

Can we talk about ownvoices, from a less white lens, for a second?I'm seeing comments like "this is why ownvoices is toxic" and "ownvoices does more harm than good" and

Sasha Laurens (A WICKED MAGIC!)

Not exactly a mystery why some people like Miss White Hawaii 2020 are so interested in telling the stories of non-white people in their work. It's a failure of creativity.

Here we go. Lots of questions/comments/requests for more Black stories that are about everyday Black life, #BlackJoy , etc. from @EdAntiRacism last night. I'll start this #thread to help. Please

Laurier The Fox #StopMutilationsIntersexes #BLM

Laurier_the_Fox

Pers cis "Sans nos créas sur vos vies les trans ont 0 visibilit"Mettez sous ce tweet/RT ttes les œuvres d créateurices trans dans le monde #TransCreationLes Lèvres Gercées @kelsiphung &Fabien

🏳️‍🌈 Hailey Piper of Hill House 🏳️‍🌈

HaileyPiperSays

Forcing queer authors to come out if they want to write about queer themes not only cuts characters like us off from being subjects by straight authors, but also suggests

Rui, screaming inside her heart

reading this and thinking about how there are a lot of white folks curating things on china nowadays that use valid , good writing pieces on china to sort of

Jael Richardson

A publisher just sent me a Fall 2020 catalogue FULL of stories where all of the books with Black people on the cover (there were about six in a catalogue

Emery Lee - Preorder MEET CUTE DIARY

I'm seeing some stuff going around so I do want to follow up my previous ownvoices thread with this:Asking if a book is ownvoices is not "forcing people to come

Last year, our LIT department worked on an amazing project. We came up with a diverse list of must have books. Our department ordered a copy for all 41 of

While we're all locked up reading and writing / glued to social media, I thought I might do a thread about the kinds of submissions I'm looking for, because it

Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚💖

BooksandChokers

Being an #OwnVoices author is a rollercoaster.People are so accepting & compassionate. But I feel like an imposter some days because, for the first 25 years of my life, I

I've been following the conversations about American Dirt and paying particular attention to the issue of bias (implicit or otherwise) that is so pervasive in the publishing industry. What's really

Okay, I'm going to make a calm and collected thread about the Leigh Bardugo thing because I always just emotionally subtweet but I actually do want to explain to everyone