Recommended Listening: Don't Be Afraid of Writing Diversity

[caitri]

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via The Mary Sue.

We in the book community are in the middle of a sustained conversation about diversity. We talk about our need for diverse books with diverse characters written by diverse writers. I wholeheartedly agree

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[browngirl]

Me too, me so too.

[caitri]

I love how he starts off the whole thing talking about the creation of the Black Panther, and how a shitty first draft became a better draft became the comic we know today, and even while still kind of problematic, it was enough to inspire a young black boy to write.