#OwnVoices

David Bowles (Mācuīl Ehēcatl) 🏳️‍🌈

DavidOBowles

1/ A thread on #ownvoices and #representation as well as allyship, guests, holding babies, writing the other, and assorted issues dealing with POC characters/stories being written by white folks. Nothing

AnaKarina Vorbeck Suarez

AKwritesnow

I’m an #ActuallyAutistic #OccupationalTherapist & writer, and, frankly, I’m horrified by Sia’s movie Music. It’s exploitative, harmful, disrespectful misrepresentation and perpetuates ableist tropes. I’ve seen the prone restra

ryan

ryandouglassw

re: ownvoices writers being afraid of writing their own truths. black boys in YA stories are used as martyrs, side characters, passive love interests, props. gatekeepers assume that black teen

Emily Settle ☕️ 📚

EmiCalico

I've been thinking about the overall concept of #OwnVoices a lot lately, particularly how it relates to my responsibility as an editor of books for young readers. 1/14 The necessity--both

Laura Zats

LZats

I want to talk for a minute about why Publisher's Marketplace racism towards a paying customer here is especially egregious (thread)https://twitter.com/StorySorcery/status/1326310147006795776 PM is THE trade record for publishing in the

Akemi Dawn Bowman has a new account

AkemiDawnBowman

still thinking about how much fear there is when it comes to marginalized folks writing about their own lived experiences because they’re terrified of having the ownvoices label weaponized against

Nicole Chung

nicolesjchung

Still thinking about this book. The title actually made me gasp aloud. It makes me very sad & angry to think of adoptees or kids in foster care who might

Alex Brown 🐀

QueenOfRats

White librarians. Here, let me let you in on a little secret. Want to know how to get white kids to read "diverse" books? The same fucking way you get

Darren Chetty

rapclassroom

Let's remember that Black people, indigenous people and people of colour were represented in many of the 'classic' British children's books. This is important. Why? A few thoughts to follow...

Craig Sisterson

craigsisterson

Meet Holden Sheppard (@V8Sheppard), a talented Aussie storyteller whose debut INVISIBLE BOYS has won several awards. People I trust tell me it's an outstanding read. Important too: a YA tale

emil n. tót 🏳️‍🌈✨

thecojsz

i keep thinking abt how writing "ownvoices" might not always be as simple and straightforward as it's often understood in online discourse(short thread, CW for abuse (physical and emotional), and

Ellison Cooper

ECooperAuthor

I haven’t discussed this publicly, but a lot of folks have been asking about my next book so I figured it was time for an update. The short answer is

Alex Segura

alex_segura

IT IS HERE AND IT IS REAL!!! THE BLACK GHOST v1: HARD REVOLUTION is coming May 5 from @DarkHorseComics, after an acclaimed digital run on @comiXology Originals. https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3007-058/The-Black-Ghost-TPB Seeing actual,

nithya angadi ⁷

nithyaangadi

Why non-POC writing POC stories is problematic (explained by a South Asian writer/reader), a thread: It takes away opportunities for POC writers themselves. We can write similar stories, but we

Emily X.R. Pan

exrpan

Many (I hope ALL ) publishers are having conversations about how to support BIPOC in this industry. There have been some threads talking about the employee side... I want to

‘Nathan Burgoine (writing again but still injured)

NathanBurgoine

Oh, for the love of...Okay, the notion of ownvoice is to elevate, to make sure we consider the people who live and breathe their experiences have the mic for some

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