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○○○○●○○○○ ❛ JUST 𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑷 YOUR CRYING, IT'S A 𝑺𝑰𝑮𝑵 OF THE 𝑻𝑰𝑴𝑬𝑺. ❜
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why diversity in literature ━━ no. 036 matters! ▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃▃
(This entire chapter is from TCK Publishing. Their article on Why Diversity in Literature Matters is phenomenal and I wanted to share it here because I couldn't have said it better myself. All credit goes to them. I did not write this and none of this is in my own words. I just formatted it differently.)
"For most of us, diversity is part of our everyday lives. We regularly interact with people from different backgrounds and cultures as we go about our day and never think too much about it.
"So why should what we read be any different?
"That's the question asked by the #WeNeedDiverseBooks and #DiversityinYA movement, which started in 2011 in response to conversations between authors Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo, who wondered why people thought they wouldn't enjoy their YA fantasy books just because they were in fantasy Asian settings.
"The conversation expanded on Twitter in 2014 to include author Ellen Oh, and the three questioned why major book conferences like BookExpo kept having panels made up of all white men.
"Turns out, plenty of other people had been thinking the same thing (especially in the science fiction and fantasy worlds), and #WeNeedDiverseBooks was born, soon followed by other offshoots aimed at getting more diverse characters into the books we read—and especially the books kids read.
"June is Pride Month, and so it's a time when many of us are more conscious about issues of diversity and inclusion than we might be normally.
"But when LGBTQ people, people of color, and others have to struggle every day to be accepted into mainstream society and simply treated like the ordinary folks they are, why does including a diverse range of characters in fiction matter?
