"I have been told my stories, including one based on my great-grandmother’s experience in a Japanese internment camp, are not #ownvoices."
- Kristen Simmons on being a mixed-race author, including being accused of writing for “diversity brownie points”

(Source: medium.com)

kristen simmons mixed race YA diversity in YA ownvoices

Jan 15, 2019
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