I encourage writers of color from Seattle and Tacoma, as well as writers from other underrepresented groups, to come get the support you need to get your voice and your story out there.
Your Voice Matters
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To Find Your Story, Try Starting From The End
We’ve all got things we’ve learned along the way, and when we’re in the public eye, people expect us to deliver our nuggets of wisdom in ways that are entertaining and engaging. But they don’t want a dry lecture, they want to hear our story. When you’re wondering what stories you have to tell, try starting from the end. Think about something you’ve learned along the way and remember back to how you learned it. What was happening in your life? What was important to you at the time? And did you learn from success or failure? You may surprise…
REPRESENTATION: In Education, in the World and on the Page
When, as People of Color, we change ourselves to accommodate an inherently racist status quo, we lose the best of what we have to offer our families, our communities and our ancestors.
Wanna make a room of white people feel awkward…?
Books by writers of color are more likely to be banned. That’s right. In the above Bitch Media interview with Kristen Pekoll from The Office of Intellectual Freedom with The American Library’s Association, she states that more than three quarters of the books banned by school libraries in 2017 were by, or about, people of color. “What does it say about our culture that people don’t want these books on the shelf?” she asks. Even though offended parents, teachers and administrators claim that they object to these books due to religious, political, sexual, or other “controversial,” content, what they all…
