{"id":1478,"date":"2009-12-10T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:32:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:32:17","slug":"multicultural-kidslit-put-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1478","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural SFF? Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via SF Signal<\/a> — Oh, here’s a project that is so close to my heart. Aquafortis mentioned it to our writing group on Tuesday, and I’ve just gotten around to checking them out. Please, watch the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Previously in my life, I wouldn’t have thought that there would be a necessity for a publishing house that was strictly for multicultural SFF for young adults and children. I would have thought, the major houses really need to step up<\/i>. I would have assumed that there weren’t a lot of multiethnic SFF writers writing. I would have come up with all kinds of thoughts on the topic, including the worst one, I’m sure there’s multicultural SFF for kids and teens out there somewhere. I just haven’t found it yet.<\/i><\/p>\n

Yes, once upon a time, I wouldn’t have thought that there would be a necessity for a publishing house that was strictly for multicultural SFF for young adults and children.<\/p>\n

But.<\/p>\n

I’m on the Cybils SFF committee this year, kids, and with the notable exception of Cindy Pon and Malinda Lo… and, now that I’m looking, Hiromi Goto and Nahoko Uehashi, there’s not a lot of ethnic makeup in SFF represented. This is not to say that there aren’t characters of color within a novel, but cover representations — are not “representing.” And it makes me wonder. Where are the Latino weredragons? The African American starfighters? The Native wizards and the Asian faeries?<\/p>\n

Every kid wants to see themselves represented in a work. Every young adult wants to imagine themselves flying or throwing fireballs or hacking apart vines to save the sleeping… prince<\/i>. Why can’t everyone play?<\/p>\n

Et vous? Et tu, multicultural peeps. Tu Publishing<\/a>. Please, pass the word along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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