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Photo of Bogi Takács
April 11, 2015
Comments: 5

Flavorless and Colorless? Minority Experiences in MG/YA Books About Autism

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Being autistic and also belonging to another minority might be one marginalization too many to sell children’s fiction informed by one’s own experience to a mainstream press, and that is a very sad thought.

Photo of Day Al-Mohamed
December 5, 2014
Comments: 1

Diversity in Single Serving Slices

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When it comes to writing, we have to be willing to examine, with suspicion, our own character creation and world-building.

July 25, 2014
Comments: 8

Discussion: Intersectionality and Disability

Diversity in children’s literature is often represented as an either/or, without intersectionality; characters can either be autistic or gay, for example, or a wheelchair user or Black, but rarely both. Why is that?