Two warriors for the Mountains and the Waters!
Chief Caleen Sisk, Winnemem Wintu, and Hāwane Rios, Hawai’ian, stand against the plan to raise Shasta Dam in Northern California, and against the plan for an 18-story telescope on sacred Mauna Kea mountain on Hawai’i Island.
Did you know that NY state has more that 140 languages spoken by its students?
This is why #weneeddiversebooks.
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Attanya: #WeNeedDiverseBooks because I love science fiction and fantasy books, but I’m tired of authors treating dragons and robots and magic as more plausible than black and brown characters
Jennifer: #WeNeedDiverseBooks because… when I was 13 a white girl told me it was selfishthat all of the protagonists in my stories were Latina because she “just can’t relate to nonwhite characters.” She made me feel guilty for writing about people like me.
Aiesha: #WeNeedDiverseBooks because…Black Girls are more than sidekicks or “sassy, ghetto friend”
Facts and Figures About Race/Ethnicity in YA and Children’s Lit:
- 88% of the books on the 2013 Publisher’s Weekly YA Bestsellers were about white protagonists
- 93% of the authors on the 2013 Publisher’s Weekly YA Bestsellers were white authors
- 85% of the books on the 2014 Young Adult Library Services Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults list were about white protagonists
- 90% of the authors on the 2014 Young Adult Library Services Association’s Best Fiction for Young Adults list were white authors
- 91% of the authors on the 2013 New York Times’s Bestseller Lists for YA and Children’s Lit were white authors.
- According to the 2012 Cooperative Children’s Book Center, only 3.3% of books were about African-American protagonists; only 2.1% were about Asian and Pacific Islander protagonists; only 1.5% were about Latinx protagonists; and only 0.6% were about Native American protagonists. That means over 90% of children’s books surveyed were about white protagonists.
#WENEEDDIVERSEBOOKS
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There’s a social media campaign going on right now to spread the word on why we need more diversity in our books. It’s really fantastic and inspiring and I am so proud to be a part of it. You can learn more about it here and here.
As a writer and a mom, this campaign is also deeply personal for me. My daughter is ½ Korean and ½ Jamaican. She loooooves books. I think she might love books more than she loves anything else (including mama!). One day she’ll be able to read them on her own and I want her to be able to find herself in them. I want her to know that girls that look like her can be anyone, can do anything.
We need diverse books because this is my family.
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where have you been lately? :(
Asked by Anonymous
I am still here I just haven’t been able to dedicate enough time to my blogs because work has been exhausting lately so that when I come home I am too tired to write well thought out things to post. The program is moving and up until yesterday we thought we would have no space to go to and that that would be the end of the program. So we have been advocating and doing what we have to, to secure a location. The stress of losing the program, that helps over 1,700 children in this community, was very taxing. My focus has been on the program and the students within it.
But I am still here, should you ever want to talk <3
A (very) small start, but a step in the right direction, mayhaps?
I hope all the states do this too.
Do you have pure aloha? If not visit defendhawaii.com now & find out how you can have pure aloha. #defendhawaii #dmafw #nativenavigators #purealoha #supportlocal
From Crying Earth Rise Up, solidarity with Reject and Protect to protect sacred water.
Prayer Ceremony outside Secretary of State Kerry’s house. Photos by Heather Milton Lightening
http://newjersey.news12.com/1.7651932
help find my cousin.
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Minneapolis Residents: Susan Allen (MN State Representative), Brother Ali (Hip Hop Artist), Keith Ellison (US Congressman) and Jay Bad Heart Bull (NACDI President) are all ready for this Friday’s Minneapolis City Council vote to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day!
Please join them this Friday, April 25th from 8:30am-9:30am at Minneapolis City Hall in Room #319 for a community reception before the council votes on this historic resolution! (x)
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had a another public hearing for the title 7 program and we were discussing parent involvement, and the decrease in participation in the program, and I gave several reasons why social media is a good idea to not only spread information on events, classes, etc, but to promote a feeling of accomplishment and community; but that idea was rejected again. I still believe that having a facebook page for the program would be beneficial.
