Official Tumblr of We Need Diverse Books

"No, this is a call for more stories. Period. They are being written by people who have lived those experiences. They are being considered by people who haven’t, but are interested in tackling that point of view. And recently, they are being heavily called for by members of society who don’t see their voices or the voices of their children telling stories like their own. Labels are important, but so are the stories behind those labels. The sooner we move away from the idea of “diversity” simply being about publishing more “Black books” or more “Latino books” or “LGBT books” or “books about fat girls” and think about the inclusion of all kinds of stories–stories about people like Quintero’s Gabi, or Han’s Lara Jean or Reynolds’s Matt–the sooner the melting pot of the American Ideal can be realized in our own contemporary literature."

- from Why We Need Inclusive Lit, Not Just Diverse Lit
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