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Apr 10, 2019 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
PSA for teachers (and any adults) about children's and YA literature regarding "relatability"
1 - relatability is not an indicator of book quality
2 - what exactly do you mean by the word "relatability"?
Nov 19, 2018 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Thread: Thoughts from a white woman about the #ALAN18 panel titled "From Beyoncé to Eric Garner to Starr Carter: Using The Hate U Give to Address Emotional Labor in Black Women's Lives"
The panel was lead by two white women. They acknowledged their identities as white women at the beginning of the session, they also acknowledged that they "learned a lot" when they presented the session during #ncte18. No specifics were shared abt what was learned and from whom.
