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Jul 27, 2018 • 3 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Chillin in @ForbiddenPlanet minding my own business when I overhear @weredawgz raving about @AcevedoWrites #ThePoetX to this guy, so I’m like, hey I know her!!
And she’s like, hey I know YOU!!! And I’m like, Hi!!!!
Was actually there w/ my husband picking up @Nnedi’s latest #Wakanda comic, out today...

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Sep 22, 2018
This is an insulting review from a major publication (@WSJ) by a very problematic reviewer, Meghan Cox Gurdon. So I’d like to review her review as an example of the “classical narrative tact” she was looking for in my book.
The first indication that this review has not gone through any sort fact-checking protocol is its inaccurate use of the word “Afro-Caribbean”. Nowhere in the novel are any of the characters referred to as Afro-Caribbean.
The reviewer has intentionally erased & undermined the descriptor “Afro-Latin” despite it being on the flap copy & despite its pervasive use in the media, including @WSJ.
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Aug 15, 2018
Ok. I'll get this off my chest. So this is for those who are still in the querying trenches. Story time! So. The very last time I cried about getting rejected... #ShareYourRejections
...was actually for a contest. I didn't win Tu Book's New Vision Award. It was the first contest specifically for diverse sci-fi/fantasy middle grade or YA. I was doing an MFA & I was exhausted. I mean, sick & tired of the whole querying process.
*Some* agents can be downright disrespectful & dismissive. I was ready to call it quits & go for a PhD & become a ruthless kidlit activist & scholar. But winning that contest would be a straight shot toward publication. I didn't care about $. I needed to get through the door!
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Jun 19, 2018
Every school & library visit I've done this past year, I have them do this:

1. Raise your hand & wave from side to side if you were born in another country. Now look around.

2. ...if at least one parent was born in another country.

3. ...a grandparent, great-grandparent...
I have them look around the room each time a new set of people raise their hands. I tell them that I'm trying to see if everyone in the room will raise their hand. Most times, yes.
Then I tell them about that one time in a Vegas middle school, three children did not raise their hand. They were Native children.
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Jun 12, 2018
Thank you @LatinxinPub & @Sj_Fennell for acknowledging my Afro-Latinidad. Latin America includes Spanish-, French-, & Portuguese-speaking countries. So Haiti is technically a Latin country, so is Brazil.
Latin languages = Romance languages, which also includes Italian.
Excluding Francophone Caribbean countries & Brazil (which has the largest population of African descendants outside of Africa) from anything having to do with Latin America is anti-blackness.
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Feb 22, 2018
I absolutely love that #BlackPanther is bringing Pan-Africanism into the national dialogue. This is the hill I'll die on so I'm gonna share some things & connect them to children's books & education. THREAD!
Pan-Africanism, to me, means connecting to the struggles of people of African descent all over the globe. Not limiting awareness to just American racial politics.
Our kids are so excited about #BlackPanther but their understanding of Africa & Pan-Africanism shouldn't be relegated to fantasy. We've had our own IRL T'Challas & Killmongers, & even Dora Milajes.
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