I had planned a wholesome post tonight about the presence of families in YA literature, but like often, I wait until the last minute to work on it. I figured […] Read More
Category: Essays
It’s been over two years since #WeNeedDiverseBooks happened, and a lot has changed since then. There’s greater awareness of the issue of diversity in fiction. Mentorship programs, fiction contests, publishing […] Read More
With the announcement of “When We Was Fierce” being pulled just days before publication for revision, the YA twitter sphere has been having some deep, profound, and insightful conversations about […] Read More
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a lengthy essay about how I intended to incorporate diverse texts into the Common Core curriculum and laid out my first semester […] Read More
By the time this blog post goes up, I will be on a plane returning from a week in London and Paris. While I went on the trip to […] Read More
When I was writing the review for “The Love that Split the World”, I debated on what I wanted to say about the book because I was unsure about how […] Read More