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to all the ppl in the anti sjm/anti cassandra clare/etc. communities: please hype up books by authors of color and not just stuff by leigh bardugo or whoever the latest woke white woman writing young adult lit is

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rainbow rowell’s career is just the epitome of white mediocrity.....like she is a 46 year old woman selling part 2 of her drarry fanfic that her self insert in her shitty contemporary romance novel wrote and everyone’s heaping praise onto her for it.....meanwhile ppl keep slamming roshani chokshi for “””ripping off leigh bardugo””” literally just for the crime of writing in the same GENRE as a successful white author…..the lack of originality and talent white ppl are allowed to get paid for just never fails to astound me!

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to all the ppl in the anti sjm/anti cassandra clare/etc. communities: please hype up books by authors of color and not just stuff by leigh bardugo or whoever the latest woke white woman writing young adult lit is

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to all the ppl in the anti sjm/anti cassandra clare/etc. communities: please hype up books by authors of color and not just stuff by leigh bardugo or whoever the latest woke white woman writing young adult lit is

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shower gel label:  immerse your self in this new   “Me Time” luxury   fruity tooty.    abandon all sense of identity and dissolve  Your memories into this   soothing chemical broth    One billion melons are in this tube… use them wisely

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Spotlight on Bayard Rustin

On August 28th, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. That day, nearly a quarter million people gathered on the national mall to demand an end to the discrimination, segregation, violence, and economic exclusion black people still faced across the United States.  None of it would have been possible without the march’s chief organizer – a man named Bayard Rustin.

Rustin grew up in a Quaker household, and began peacefully protesting racial segregation in high school. He remained committed to pacifism throughout his life, and was jailed in 1944 as a conscientious objector to World War II. During his two-year imprisonment, he protested the segregated facilities from within.

Wherever Rustin went, he organized and advocated, and was constantly attuned to the methods, groups, and people who could help further messages of equality. He joined the Communist Party when black American’s civil rights were one of its priorities, but soon became disillusioned by the party’s authoritarian leanings and left. In 1948, he traveled to India to learn the peaceful resistance strategies of the recently assassinated Mahatma Gandhi. He returned to the United States armed with strategies for peaceful protest, including civil disobedience.

He began to work with Martin Luther King Jr in 1955, and shared these ideas with him.  As King’s prominence increased, Rustin became his main advisor, as well as a key strategist in the broader civil rights movement. He brought his organizing expertise to the 1956 bus boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama—if fact, he had organized and participated in a transportation protest that helped inspire the boycotts almost a decade before.

His largest-scale organizing project came in 1963, when he led the planning for the national march on Washington. The possibility of riots that could injure marchers and undermine their message of peaceful protest was a huge concern. Rustin not only worked with the DC police and hospitals to prepare, but organized and trained a volunteer force of 2,000 security marshals. In spite of his deft management, some of the other organizers did not want Rustin to march in front with other leaders from the south because of his homosexuality.

Despite these slights, Rustin maintained his focus, and on the day of the march he delivered the marchers’ demands in a speech directed at President John F Kennedy. The march itself proceeded smoothly, without any violence. It has been credited with helping pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which outlawed discriminatory voting practices.

In spite of his decades of service Rustin’s positions on certain political issues were unpopular among his peers. Some thought he wasn’t critical enough of the Vietnam War, or that he was too eager to collaborate with the political establishment including the president and congress. Others were uncomfortable with his former communist affiliation. But ultimately, both his belief in collaboration with the government and his membership to the communist party had been driven by his desire to maximize tangible gains in liberties for black Americans, and to do so as quickly as possible.

Rustin was passed over for several influential roles in the 1960s and 70s, but he never stopped his activism. In the 1980s, he publicly came out as gay, and was instrumental in drawing attention to the AIDS crisis until his death in 1987. In 2013, fifty years after the March On Washington, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, praising Rustin’s “march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.”

This month, TED-Ed is celebrating Black History Month, or National African American History Month, an annual celebration of achievements by black Americans and a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history.

From the TED-Ed Lesson An unsung hero of the civil rights movement - Christina Greer

Animation by Anton Bogaty

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What are your thoughts on the Percy Jackson/heroes of Olympus series?

Oh man, I’m not updated on PJO and HoO at ALL tbh but I’m definitely planning on catching up soon!! I do remember really enjoying Percy Jackson when I was Very Small(TM) and my reflecting back on the series has been pretty much in consensus with a lot of people regarding representation (namely, Rick could have done better) but from what I’ve seen Rick Riordan has done a lot of incredible growth as an author I think, and I’m also really happy to see him boosting a lot of ownvoices work (like Roshani Chokshi’s Aru Shah!) with Rick Riordan Presents. There’s a lot of books on there that I’m honestly super excited to take a peek at!! (For anyone interested, I highly recommend taking a peek here: https://www.readriordan.com/series/rick-riordan-presents/)

I think I was on...House of Hades? And then Life Stuff happened and I got diverted, but I’m planning on picking Heroes of Olympus back up and then heading over to Magnus Chase! Oh, and I also read Kane Chronicles back when those were a Thing (omg that was so long ago!) and I remember that Baby Sakshi liked those books too!

Thank you for sending this in, and I’m sorry for the sorta anticlimactic response!! Any followers who are more caught up want to chip in?

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you have not lived until you've seen a booktuber rip apart sarah j maas' work ...... the lack of talent on that woman is appalling

i don’t even know who that woman is … but i do wanna see her get Eaten Up by booktubers!

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“Dig a Little Deeper” by Heather Theurer

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children & young adult book summaries: jamie and ella are living an average life when they get captured by pirates and forced to work for them! :O what will these siblings go through in order to work through the ranks and eventually beat the big bad boss of the pirates??

adult book summaries: it is an unusually long summer afternoon when katherine, 25, attractive, sits on her back porch smoking a cigarette. she wonders what the evening will hold for her. it is at that moment when a handsome stranger appears, offering his hand from a cloud of smoke. “come with me,” he says. “i’ll take you to a world of mystery.” would she go? (continued on back flap) she would go. he takes her to mysterious world of lust and longing and she has one thought the whole time: will i miss my own world? but she doesn’t because she loves this mystery man. but oh no, he works for a bad guy! and she is roped into it! (continued on back cover) this author has created a dark world of intrigue that readers will be pulled into, just as katherine was, and fall in love. NY times reviewer: this book was amazing! james patterson: i definitely read this book and it was great. (continued on additional leaflet found in the back of the book)

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novels should start holding a “deleted scenes” section in last book of the series like movies do, just funny useless scenes where the characters mess up or joke around or a silly secret is let out. cute stuff to keep us not so sad after the book ends ☺️

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coming this fall………. a new YA novel series about one girl……… in a post-apocalyptic dystopian setting…………….. who is different. unique. and can use her specialness….. To Save Us All

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who was the first person to write “tongues battling for dominance” and have they issued a public apology yet

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Im not saying that people should just stop watching and go hate on twilight but why are so many people on here suddenly acting like twilight had been good all along and that everyone hated twilight just bc of internalized misogyny and its huge teenage fanbase??Like yeah alot of people DID hate it bc of that but ALOT of people also disliked it mainly because of the glorification of abuse , grooming and toxic relationships in it and how it was all sold to teen girls as “True love”.

Did everyone forget that edward and bella’s relationship met ALL FIFTEEN criteria set up by the national domestic violence hotline  of being in an abusive relationship???Or that bella allowed her SEVEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER to be romantically with jacob who is the same age as bella just bc of “destiny”???

Did people forget how most of the “savage” and “wild” werewolves on were native american and all the vampires were white for no reason??Or literally ALL of the racist undertones??(check out our #twilight tag) Or how leah clearwater’s cousin is physically attacked by her ex boyfriend which left her  scarred permanently yet they ended up together coz it was their “destiny” ???Or how bella literally left her family,education and single father to raise a family with edward for the sake of “true love”??

Are we just gonna ignore the glorification of stalking and controlling boyfriend behavior and the “not like other girls” form of internalized misogyny??

I could go on and on but please stop acting like twilight was anything but a crappy YA paranormal novel which got popular for some weird reason.The memes and jokes are funny and people headcanoning the characters as gay/lesbian/bi etc is good and all but please please remember why twilight was so much criticized by many many feminists too and stop introducing it to other teens bc the REAL twilight is a shitty and problematic mess which sells a very horrible image of “true love”

You can check out FHPOC’s twilight tag where other mods have discussed about this in detail.

-Mod ro

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I find the twilight renaissance funny, and I’m all for eliminating cringe culture, but let’s remember that smeyer changed Quileute legends and beliefs to fit her narrative, gave animalistic/abusive traits to her Native characters, reinforcing the uncontrollable “savage” stereotype, made the “pure”, pale vampires constantly insult and antagonize the werewolves (whose land they were living on) for no reason, and overall wrote some pretty racist stuff about her Native characters

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I don’t really call myself an anti anymore because like … I feel like SJM does enough bad/dumb shit on her own that you don’t have to pretend that GRRM invented fantasy each time there’s a slight similarity, which is where the anti community seems to be heading these days.

Like, we all know that woman’s creativity can’t fill a thimble. And that’s it. It’s not that deep. I doubt she’s rubbing her hands together and looking for new lines to steal. And she’s far from the only one who’s riding that Game of Thrones bandwagon. 

And tbh the GRRM thing is just a example, I feel like you guys are really reaching at this point, in general. It’s all there in the manual, fam. Did you guys get bored of the shit that should actually be talked about and decide it’s time to nitpick stuff and find arbitrary similarities for your new hot takes? You don’t gotta do that. The woman is still publishing and making entirely new content for you to roast. Have you seen the KoA quotes? Snark gold. 

Anyway still think you’re doing god’s work but like … Getting a little echo-chambery, no?