Showing posts with label Malinda Lo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malinda Lo. Show all posts
Friday, October 18, 2013
Friday, July 19, 2013
Diversity in the News
July 11th - July 18th, 2013
CBC DIVERSITY/COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
ON OUR RADAR
CBC DIVERSITY/COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
- Children's literature lacks diversity, say authors, librarians at The Tennessean – includes thoughts from Alvina Ling, Executive Editorial Director at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers and CBC Diversity Committee Member
ON OUR RADAR
- Kids React Adorably To Cheerios Ad That Sparked Racist Backlash (VIDEO) at the Huffington Post
- Related: The Cheerios ad (VIDEO); an interview (VIDEO) with the young star of the ad and her family about the controversy on MSNBC
- Part IV: Are All Book Covers Created Equal? Bank Street 6th-Graders Talk With Knopf Editors!
- Has ‘Caucasian’ Lost Its Meaning? at the New York Times
- 'Fat Angie' Author Reaches Out to At-Risk Kids at PW – the author has embarked on an At-Risk tour, using her book as a springboard for “conversations with at-risk youngsters, including those who are economically disadvantaged, bullied, and LGBTQ.”
- Community Angered by Tossed Black History Collection at School Library Journal
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Diversity in the News
June 27th – July 3rd, 2013
We hope everyone has a wonderful 4th of July and to tide you over until the next Diversity in the News post (July 12), we're giving you one mid-week!
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Illustration
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Diversity in the News
June 20th – June 27th, 2013
NEW BLOG ALERT
NEW BLOG ALERT
- July 1—31: Disability in Kidlit —Organized by Kody Keplinger and Corinne Duyvis, the blog series “will feature posts by readers, writers, bloggers, and other peeps from the YA and MG communities discussing disability and kidlit.” Call for bloggers now closed.
ON OUR RADAR
- As Demographics Shift, Kids' Books Stay Stubbornly White via NPR’s Code Switch
- Why Hasn’t the Number of Multicultural Books Increased In Eighteen Years? (includes infographic) at Lee & Low Books – features opinions from Kathleen T. Horning, Director of Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC); Poet/Author Nikki Grimes, Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, Professor Emerita, The Ohio State University, and more
- Related: Coloring Outside the Lines: The Diversity Gap in Children’s Literature via Bookriot
- Roger Sutton from Horn Book weighs in: A very good question
Friday, May 31, 2013
Diversity in the News
May 23rd —May 30th, 2013
CBC DIVERSITY/COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
ON OUR RADAR
CBC DIVERSITY/COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
ON OUR RADAR
- Islam in the Classroom via School Library Journal
- Author Interview: Tim Tingle on How I Became a Ghost, a story about The Trail of Tears, at Edmondsun.com
- The Government Can’t Stop Our Heterosexual Love: YA Dystopia From A Gay Perspective at YALSA’s The Hub
- Five Wrong-Headed Reasons for Not Writing Diverse Characters in Science Fiction via Rich in Color
- Guest Post ~ African youth literature: what visibility on the international market? by Mariette Robbes at PaperTigers.org
- Kat Zhang to Pen Once We Were at the CBC
- Interview with Kat Zhang at Diversity in YA
- Foster the Teens: Foster Kids in YA Literature at YALSA’s The Hub
- Your favorite YA books about Asian Americans! at Diversity in YA
- Best Asian-American Children’s Books via InCultureParent
- What I Like about Eric Gansworth's If I Ever Get Out of Here at AICL
- DiYA Author Spotlight: Mitali Perkins at Diversity in YA
- Author Interview: Shana Mlawski on Hammer of Witches at Diversity If YA
- Guest Post by Andre Norton Award Winner E. C. Meyer at Diversity in YA
Friday, April 12, 2013
Diversity in the News
April 4th - April 11th, 2013
CBC DIVERSITY/COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
CBC DIVERSITY/COMMITTEE MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
- Matt de la Peña mentioned the CBC Diversity blog during his keynote at SLJ's Think Tank last Friday. Listen to the entire speech here.
- Four Latina bloggers band together to promote Latino literary talent to Latino readers and mainstream book publishers , via Latina Lista – mentions working with CBC Diversity!
ON OUR RADAR
- List: "Classic" young adult books by authors of color at Diversity in YA
- What Are “Diverse” Children’s Books? at Mamiverse
- My transgender novel is too personal to be propaganda by Cris Beam, author of I Am J (via The Guardian) -- “But literature, at its best, doesn’t live in this world of agendas and witch hunts, as tools for any side’s political purpose. Literature and its readers are in an alternate realm, and they’ll continue to meet in this quieter place.”
- A Different Light: On Identity at YALSA’s The Hub – reflects on the recent articles
- “What Makes a Good YA Coming-Out Novel” (The Horn Book)
- “A New Way for Gay Characters in YA” (Atlantic Wire)
- The Holocaust: Rescue and Resistance | Focus On at School Library Journal – includes list of recommended reading
- “Are there any girl bears?”: Gender and the 21st Century Picture Book by Betsy Bird at Fuse 8
Friday, March 15, 2013
Diversity in the News
March 7th – March
14th, 2013
ON OUR RADAR
- HarperCollins and Lee & Low create winning proposals for First Book’s Stories for All Project
- The Diversity in YA Tumblr, managed by YA authors Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo, is back!
- On Goodreads: Best YA Books with Non-White Protagonist
- Lovely interview with Grace Lin for the Girl Scouts’ Storyteller Series
- The CBC’s visual Ode to Ezra Jack Keats, who would have been 97 on 3/11/13
- For Women’s History Month, Open Road Media spotlights Virginia Hamilton (author of 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great): Virginia Hamilton, The Great
- PW KidsCast: A Conversation with Alaya Dawn Johnson on the cultural, technological, and musical influences that helped shape the futuristic Brazilian setting of her new book.
- Two Rappers’ daughters are working on a YA novel: Lil Wayne's daughter Reginae Carter and Birdman's daughter Bria Williams have teamed up to write, "Paparazzi Princesses" – set to be published in June by “Cash Money Content.
- An Interview with Harlem’s Little Blackbird Author Renée Watson on Watch. Connect. Read
Friday, March 8, 2013
Diversity in the News
February 28th
– March 7th, 2013
CBC Diversity felt it was time to step up our game when it came to participating in the conversations outside our blog concerning children's books and the representation of people within them. We want you, our readers, to know that you can rely on the CBC Diversity blog to provide links to news stories, discussion threads, tweet trends, and blog posts about these important conversations. We'll be posting weekly roundups to keep everyone abreast of the conversation and we'll be entering into a few more ourselves. We hope you do too!
If you'd rather look at everything all at once, you'll still be able to find the links to these news articles and blog posts on our all-inclusive News & ... page as well as event details on our CBC Diversity Google calendar located on our Events page.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
A Year of Thinking About Diversity
Guest post by Malinda Lo, author of several young adult novels including Ash, Huntress, and Adaptation.
In 2011, my friend and fellow YA author Cindy Pon and I put together a national book tour called Diversity in YA. Our goal was to showcase middle grade and young adult novels that featured diverse characters; specifically, characters of color and/or LGBT characters. For this tour, Cindy and I traveled to five U.S. cities and invited local authors who had written diverse books to join us at bookstores and libraries to talk about diversity and what it meant to us as writers and readers. As part of our tour, we also launched a website, Diversity in YA, where we featured guest posts by authors and book lists of diverse titles.
In the two years since Diversity in YA, Cindy and I have continued to get feedback from readers and librarians and book people about how much they valued DiYA. This is so rewarding to us to hear! This is also why I was excited to hear about the launch of the CBC Diversity Committee. I think it's wonderful that the publishing industry is now directly involved, through CBC Diversity, in making sure this discussion about diversity continues — and hopefully in ways that will make a real difference in children's literature.
The Diversity in YA website, like the tour, was only meant to be live for one year, so we shuttered it at the end of 2011. When CBC Diversity asked Cindy and me if they could repost some of our DiYA posts, we thought this was a great way to give those posts a second life. That's why I and some of the other authors who wrote for diversityinya.com have given permission to CBC Diversity to reprint our posts on the CBC Diversity blog over the next several months.
The last piece I wrote for DiYA was called "A Year of Thinking About Diversity," in which I described what I'd learned during the DiYA experience. Although some of the piece is focused on the specific issues Cindy and I dealt with while managing DiYA, my thoughts about diversity and publishing remain largely the same. I'm happy to repost it on CBC Diversity today.
In the two years since Diversity in YA, Cindy and I have continued to get feedback from readers and librarians and book people about how much they valued DiYA. This is so rewarding to us to hear! This is also why I was excited to hear about the launch of the CBC Diversity Committee. I think it's wonderful that the publishing industry is now directly involved, through CBC Diversity, in making sure this discussion about diversity continues — and hopefully in ways that will make a real difference in children's literature.
The Diversity in YA website, like the tour, was only meant to be live for one year, so we shuttered it at the end of 2011. When CBC Diversity asked Cindy and me if they could repost some of our DiYA posts, we thought this was a great way to give those posts a second life. That's why I and some of the other authors who wrote for diversityinya.com have given permission to CBC Diversity to reprint our posts on the CBC Diversity blog over the next several months.
The last piece I wrote for DiYA was called "A Year of Thinking About Diversity," in which I described what I'd learned during the DiYA experience. Although some of the piece is focused on the specific issues Cindy and I dealt with while managing DiYA, my thoughts about diversity and publishing remain largely the same. I'm happy to repost it on CBC Diversity today.
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