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Emily Lloyd-Jones
em_llojo
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,
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Adriana White, MLIS
Adriana_Edu
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
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Sonora Reyes
SonoraReyes
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
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Emery Lee - Preorder MEET CUTE DIARY
EmeryLeeWho
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
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Sasha Laurens (A WICKED MAGIC!)
sasha_laurens
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.
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Dr. Kim Parker
TchKimPossible
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
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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
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🏳️🌈 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
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Rui, screaming inside her heart
rzhongnotes
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
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Jael Richardson
JaelRichardson
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
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Emery Lee - Preorder MEET CUTE DIARY
EmeryLeeWho
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
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Lana Lozure
lanabrarian
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
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Rachel Mann
rachelphilippa
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
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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
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Kiera Parrott
libraryvoice
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
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Kitty
jellyfable
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
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