Exciting Team Announcement!
Welcoming Natasha Razi, our new editor!
Welcoming Natasha Razi, our new editor!
We’re excited to welcome Yahong Chi to our team as our social media coordinator!
Disability in Kidlit will be undergoing some changes; a different posting schedule, update on submissions, and social media news.
In terms of disabled characters, what would our contributors like to see more of in children’s literature?
This is a reminder of tomorrow’s Twitter chat.
A brief list of recommendations our contributors put together.
After second grade, I stopped reading most books unless they were assigned for class. Even then, I often didn’t read them. The reason being, when I read a sentence, I often didn’t understand it. Somewhere between my eyes seeing the words and my brain, the phrase disappeared into the ether.
Speculative fiction is work that focuses on difference, work that immerses us in it. But the choices we make when building a fictional world can reflect on the world that we live in now. So how do we worldbuild with disability in mind?