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Category: Essays

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Decolonize Your Mind & Disrupt the Text

Posted on22 July, 202021 July, 2020

Yesterday an old tweet came across my timeline on Facebook and said this “Academia’s obsession with preserving the white man’s ‘classic’ literature within secondary schools’s curriculum is the reason why […] Read More

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A Few Days in Baltimore: NCTE 2019

Posted on27 November, 2019

Last year was my first NCTE annual conference and I was completely overwhelmed. Trying to balance sessions with visiting the exhibit hall and all the author signings, whew! This year, […] Read More

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Open Letter to Writers

Posted on25 October, 20175 April, 2018

I’ve not commented, though have retweeted profound threads, on the on-going discussion that resulted from the removal of American Heart’s starred review from Kirkus. I saw the FB post the […] Read More

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Banned Books Week: Sex in YA

Posted on27 September, 201727 September, 2017

It’s Banned Books week and to celebrate I thought I’d talk about a subject that many books are banned for – sex! Yes, that three letter word that often throws […] Read More

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Whose Streets?, Charlottesville, and Activist Storytelling

Posted on18 August, 20175 April, 2018

Last Saturday morning, I headed to the movie theater, eyes glued to my phone as I tried (unsuccessfully) to navigate and check twitter at the same time. I found my […] Read More

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Charlottesville and Resources

Posted on16 August, 201716 August, 2017

Seems like a great time to recommend these young adult books tackling white supremacy. #Charlottesville pic.twitter.com/ZjiJCqzxb1 — Pick My YA (@PickMyYA) August 12, 2017 “If you’re not outraged, you’re not […] Read More

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