“The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.”
#DiverseVoices series presents a quote from alayadawnjohnson’s critically acclaimed The Summer Prince.
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Bitch Magazine Series: Girls of Color in Dystopian YA Fantasy Literature
This current guest series by Victoria Law includes book reviews, analysis of race and tends in YA literature, questions about race and gender in Dystopic narratives, interviews with authors and more.
- Do Girls of Color Survive Dystopia?
- A Short List of Great Resources for Racial Diversity in Young Adult Sci-Fi
- Black Girls Hunger for Heroes, Too: A Black Feminist Conversation on Fantasy Fiction for Teens (Zeta Elliott and Ibi Aanu Zoboi)
- Two YA Authors Explore Life After the Bomb (Ellen Oh and Julianna Baggott)
- Race & Body Issues in Nalo Hopkinson’s “The Chaos”
- Send in the Clones: Two YA Novels’ Treatment of Race, Gender, and Cloning
- YA Book “What’s Left of Me” is a Dystopian Take on Nationalist Fervor
- Can a Society Run by Women Still Be a Dystopia?
- Reading “Tankborn”— A YA Book About Race, Class, and Caste
- Dystopian Book “Partials” Imagines a Society of Forced Pregnancy
- New Book “Orleans” Imagines a World Where Blood Type Matters More than Race
- Dystopian Book “Shadows Cast By Stars” Revolves Around Aboriginal Race and Identity
- Finally! In “Immortal Rules,” One Girl of Color Survives Dystopia
- A 15-Year-Old’s Vision of Public School Dystopia
- Reading Race in Marie Lu’s Dystopian YA Hit “Legend”
- What if Cinderella Wasn’t Straight and White?
- Young Adult Books Too Often Present a World Without People of Color
^ These are all topical, analytical, thematic, and critical essays about the books pictured above and much more.
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Rocking the #WeNeedDiverseBooks button:
Thank you, Rachel Renee Russell, @realjohngreen @veronicaroth @marie_lu alayadawnjohnson, & daniellempaige for supporting the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign! The button is small, but the message mighty. We couldn’t be more thrilled that a SRO crowd heard our message (and that these fabulous authors actually WORE it :D). Quotes from our interviewees, and a stream of the entire panel to come…
