Posts about diversity

I had such a great time talking to everyone at SCBWI Winter Conference this weekend and teaching the multicultural books breakout. In one of my[…]

Given that today is Martin Luther King Day, and that we’re still dealing with book banning based on race even today, I’d like to make[…]

If you didn’t already know, I’m going to be speaking at the end of the month at the New York SCBWI National Conference at the[…]

I don’t know that we’ve ever discussed the concept of the Magical Negro here before, or its equivalent in American storytelling with Asian and Native[…]

I’m up to my gleezers, as Galaxy Games alien M’Frozza would say, in printer proofs for Fall books. I’ve been working on a post to[…]

Pictures from a recent visit to NYC by Cynthia Leitich Smith! These were taken in Feb. 2011, but I completely forgot to post them. What’s[…]

And finally, part 3. Read parts 1 and 2 here and here. So now let’s talk about writing cross-culturally! Writing Cross-culturally A few months ago,[…]

See here for part 1. Many authors have broken that mold & followed Ursula K. Le Guin’s admonition to write more of the “other.” But[…]

Here you go! The first installment. Note that this was written to be spoken, so sometimes the diction might seem a little weird for a[…]

To hold you over until I can get my own talk up, here’s an even better talk by author Chimamanda Adichie, which I told everyone[…]