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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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favourite queer ya - everything leads to you by nina lacour
there are still ava maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. it’s possible that someday i will hear a patsy cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. it will be some distant, buried feeling. i won’t remember how much it once hurt.
Lovely photoset for a lovely, lovely book!
Watch: Roxane Gay reveals 7 confessions of being a “Bad Feminist" — and what we can do to overcome it
*bows down*
Yes, yes, yes.
queen
roxanegay is 100% girlgang.
“The key to Luna is that she has that unbelievably rare quality of actually not giving a damn what anyone else thinks of her.” - J.K. Rowling
YES! Yay Luna!
Our Ida B. Wells anthology, The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader was published last week! For a little intro to this amazing woman, here’s a really cool take on her life story by Kate Beaton (of Hark! A Vagrant fame).
New Ida book!
SHADOWSHAPER and the Power of Art
By Daniel José Older
Here’s a phrase you’ll hear often in conversations about gentrification: “First, the artists moved in.” It’s a tiny, complicated sentence amidst a gigantic, complicated topic (which I wrote more about here). But embedded in it, you’ll find one of the central acts of erasure at the heart of gentrification itself. When people say this, they really mean the white artists came first, but the white goes unmentioned because, like whiteness itself, it’s presumed, normalized: the fallback category. (See also: writers only pointing out a character’s race when they’re not white.) The problem with saying “First, the artists moved in,” is that it’s not true. There have always been artists in the America’s low-income neighborhoods, and hopefully there always will be. But they haven’t always been white and their art hasn’t always been the kind that galleries and art critics deem worthy of a pedestal.
The pages of Shadowshaper, my first YA novel, are filled with musicians and rappers, poets, painters, storytellers, journalists – all folks who get erased when we talk about a glorified first wave of white artists entering the hood like they’re some kind of daring explorers in the wilderness.
Sierra Santiago is just trying to paint a mural on the wall of one of those brand new, wildly out of place looking buildings on a block otherwise full of brownstones. A tear drips down the face of a fading mural adjacent to the one she’s painting, a memorial to a friend of her family’s. Then chaos erupts when a guy that was supposed to be dead shows up at the first party of the summer while Sierra’s trying to recruit her friend Robbie to help her unravel the mystery of the crying painting and her grandfather’s connection to a mysterious group called the shadowshapers.
Shadowshaper is about artists and the power of art. Amidst rapidly changing neighborhoods, police violence, and literary erasure, the painting of a face on a wall, the act of remembrance, is truly a form of resistance. In the struggle to reclaim her own heritage, Sierra must find her voice. This is the first great adventure of every artist, but it’s an adventure that society glorifies or demonizes differently along coded race and gender lines. We find our voices as individuals and collectively, and once we find them, we must learn how to lift them – over the din and tangle of oppression and the industry and the market and bad advice about what will sell and what won’t sell – and say something difficult and true. In writing Sierra’s journey to find her voice, I ended up finding my own.
Daniel José Older is the author of the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy series from Penguin’s Roc Books and the Young Adult novel Shadowshaper (Scholastic’s Arthur A. Levine Books, 2015). His first collection of short stories, Salsa Nocturna and the anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, which he co-edited, are available from Crossed Genres Publications. You can find Daniel’s thoughts on writing, read dispatches from his decade-long career as an NYC paramedic and hear his music at ghoststar.net/ and @djolder on twitter and youtube.
Photo credit: Kevin Kane
Shadowshaper is available for purchase here.
Loved this book! Great, original urban fantasy with a diverse cast of characters and wonderful thoughts on art & artsy teens!
Comic! Are you full to the brim of Pride and Prejudice parodies?
GET FULLER
YEEESSS.
#18th century dorks
PREEETTY.
I made an X-Files picture book to give myself closure after watching the show for the first time. Then they officially announced the revival. I should have known there would be no escape from all the feelings.
This is amazing! And entirely summarizes the show for me. :)
so I started watching X-Files
To celebrate the (approximate) 1-year anniversary of Diversity in YA’s launch on tumblr, we’re giving away all these books! Thank you for celebrating diversity in young adult books with us and continuing to engage in dialogue and increasing awareness!
(To view a document listing all the titles, click here.)
Here’s how this is going to work:
We’ve divided these books into 4-packs of diverse awesomeness. Don’t worry, series titles will all be kept together, so you won’t end up getting a middle book or a third book in a trilogy without the others.
We have multiple copies of some titles, so some of them will go into several prize packs.
We’ll select 17 winners, each of whom will receive a prize pack of 4 books!
Because of the large number of titles and the cost of international shipping, we’re only able to ship to U.S. mailing addresses. International folks may enter as long as they have a U.S. mailing address.
Teachers and librarians get an extra entry!
The deadline to enter is March 31, 2014.
Enter here:
a Rafflecopter giveaway
(If you can’t see the Rafflecopter entry form on your tumblr dash, you can also enter at our website.)
Thank you so much to the following publishers for donating books to our Anniversary Giveaway:
Candlewick Press
Disney-Hyperion
First Second Books
HarperCollins
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Penguin
Random house
Scholastic
Tu Books
Love free books? Love diverse young adult lit? Check out Diversity in YA's amazing anniversary giveaway! Don't know about Diversity in YA--CHECK THAT OUT RIGHT NOW!
This is one of my favorite lists that comes out every January! If you haven't already checked out their 2014 list, head over there a.s.a.p.
Veronica Mars in this week’s Entertainment Weekly
So thrilled to celebrate Valentine's Day a bit early over at the YALSA Hub by sharing a few of my favorite YA high fantasy novels featuring wonderful romances! I had to limit my choices to keep the post from getting ridiculously long so I'd love to hear about YOUR favorite fantasy romances in the comments!
I’ll probably touch this up some more before submitting it (and maybe add headphones), but for now, this is more or less my Cecil/Carlos entry for the t-shirt contest.
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I’ve shared individual ones before, but I’m not sure which ones. So here’s a collection of the first 10 Like—>Try—>Why reader’s advisory graphics I’ve made for the library.
WOWOW This is amazing!
This are AMAZING! I've done some simple readalike bookmarks but these are inspiring--such solid graphics and really spot on recommendations!
