#WeNeedDiverseBooks because as an avid reader growing up, I never read a book with a heroine that looked like me. It wasn’t until my 30s, after my debut SILVER PHOENIX was published, that i realized I had written the novel that I never got to read as a teen. Cindypon.tumblr.com
Submitted by Cindy Pon, author of Silver Phoenix and Fury of the Phoenix.
This is my contribution to the fabulous #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign taking social media by storm. Join in!
#WeNeedDiverseBooks because I want my daughter to know that she can be a leading lady!
Submission by Maya Prasad, www.mayaprasad.com
Did you know that NY state has more that 140 languages spoken by its students?
This is why #weneeddiversebooks.
(via moniquill)
bad/offensive representation is not representation
marginalized people do not and have no obligation to to accept shitty representation
(via justanotherphoenix)
today a Mechoopda Maidu adult came into the office and looked through our language resource books, found a child’s coloring book with Maidu words under each illustration. As she traced the words with her index finger she started crying.
