Introducing … The Disability in Kidlit Honor Roll!
Since our founding exactly three years ago, we’ve built up an impressive bank of reviewed titles. Now, we’re making the search for good representation even easier.
Since our founding exactly three years ago, we’ve built up an impressive bank of reviewed titles. Now, we’re making the search for good representation even easier.
Disability in Kidlit will be undergoing some changes; a different posting schedule, update on submissions, and social media news.
It’s time for #alamw16: all the information on ARCs, signings, and awards related to disability representation.
What was originally intended to be a one-month event has now reached its third birthday, and we could not be more ecstatic!
We’ve decided to continue Disability in Kidlit as an ongoing blog rather than a one-time event!
When it comes to writing, we have to be willing to examine, with suspicion, our own character creation and world-building.
With one word, one look, it hit me that my experience really was abnormal.
Masturbation (and sexuality in general), particularly for girls, is widely stigmatized. But on top of that stigma, I had this body that was utterly different from the bodies around me. It was different and therefore wrong.
If you looked at me as a teenager, particularly during my freshman year in high school, I would not have stood out from my peers. If you looked closer at my dominant right hand, though, you’d see there was a significant problem.
Pete’s autism is portrayed over and over again as being non-stop pain and suffering. That got incredibly hard to read; do people really think this is what autism is like?