I don’t need to tell you how terrible this year has been in ways none of us could have predicted in advance. Nor am I particularly interested in the silver linings of horror and pain. But in the face of the pain, we’ve all experienced this year, there are opportunities to choose joy, however fleeting. And this year, it’s undeniable that many great books by queer and LGBTQ+ authors have made their way into the world- both a joyful thing…
For some children, borrowing these titles may lead them to see themselves or familiar people depicted on the page. It may be a way for them to understand or process their feelings or thoughts or simply have a main character with whom they can identify. In other cases, it can help children empathize with others with a different point of view than they do and reassure them that it’s perfectly normal for different children and people who are all the…
For far too long, we have been fed colonialist discourse in covert ways, which is why as people of color, we need to decolonize our world. Colonialism is a system of pure evil, and I believe that all the problem that we currently have in the world today have their roots in colonialism. As a human being, you should thrive to resist colonial notions in literature which is a difficult thing to do because it is largely dominated by one…
In the first part of the blog series, we talked about some of the books we believe are essential for everyone to read at least once in their lifetime, and in this part, we’ll delve deep into 3 more books that you ought to read. This list is entirely subjective and are books that changed my life and how I think, but here is the list of more books that I think everyone should read at least once. Okay, I…
This list is entirely subjective and are books that changed my life and how I think, but here is the list that I think everyone should read at least once. Okay, I don’t want to be the one, but I read for fun, and I can finish a book in a day. So, you would be correct to say that I’ve read my fair share of books in my time. I also did an English degree and currently working on…