Book CommuniTEA Tuesday: No Peace During Black History Month, Should White Authors Write POC? [CC]

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🎊Hiii! Happy #BookCommuniTEA Tuesday! One week into Black History Month and the shenanigans have not stopped. So much mess and the question is: should white authors write POC? Thanks for watching!

🎊 TIME STAMPS:
0:00 Intro
2:20 White Writers Guild Twitter Shenanigans
4:59 School Library Journal: "Why White Kids Need Diverse Books"
11:37 Baker and the Geek/Chelsea Millen/Isabella Starling
18:45 Nigel Intermission
19:14 A L Herbert/Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles
23:12 Lycanthrophy and Other Chronic Illnesses
33:01 Recent/Upcoming releases by Black and South Asian Authors

🎊School Library Journal's Editor's Response: https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=abou...

🎊Interview with A. L. Herbert: https://sankofasistas.wordpress.com/2...

🎊Here are some additional resources/threads for more information (from South Asian reviewer for Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses)
-Excellent article on the many shades and complexities of South Asian rep and how we are not interchangeable: https://diversebooks.org/why-we-need-...
-My thread on the intersections of disabled Desi identity and how our voices are underrepresented in publishing in multiple ways:   / s.  .
-Thread by Desi author Priyanka Taslim breaking down how racist & appropriative it is for white authors to write MCs with BIPOC, Desi, and especially disabled Tamil rep specifically, in response to the author's friend defending her in an email to a negative reviewer saying she meant to "give us a voice":   / .  . (less)

🎊Saajid's video:    • SHOULD WHITE AUTHORS WRITE POC???  

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Books Mentioned:
-Tempest: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97800623...
-How To Catch A Queen: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97800629...
-A Cowboy To Remember: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97814967...
-Truth or Dare: https://www.amazon.com/Truth-Dare-Dan...
-Amari and The Night Brothers: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97800629...
-Root Magic: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97800628...
-Wings of Ebony: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97815344...
-One of the Good Ones: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97813351...
-When You Look Like Us: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97800629...
-Happily Ever Afters: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97800629...
-First Comes Like: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97800628...
-Accidentally Engaged: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97815387...
-City of the Plague God: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97813680...
-The Dating Plan: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97805931...
-Serena Singh Flips the Script: https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97805931...
-If I Tell You The Truth:https://bookshop.org/a/12115/97800629...

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