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📚🎧EXPANDING THE CONTENT YOU CONSUME📚🎧

Apologies in advance as this is really poorly worded, but I wanted to put this out there because I think about it a lot.

Something my librarian talks about a lot is expanding the range of content you read/watch/listen to, not necessarily in terms of genre but in terms of creators. I think the reason people resist consuming media by people of colour/plus sized people/lgbtq+ people/anyone who strays from the 'norm' of what they know is because of discrimination and also because they worry the content be focused on the discrimination which they don't understand and cannot relate to. And while I beleive you should absolutely challenge yourself to read that kind of thing, but you should also read books by those people which don't cover heavy topics as the main focus.

Here some recommendations. This is based on the kind of stuff I normally read/listen to, please feel free to reblog this with your recommendations if you read other genres.

Romance Books

The Neighbour Favour by Kristina Forest

Seven Days In June by Tia Williams

Who Asked You by Terry McMillan

Set On You by Amy Lea (literally any book by her i love her)

The Fastest Way To Fall by Denise Williams

The Heartstopper Series by Alice Oseman

Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (again anything by them I love them)

The What If Its Us series by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

Something to Talk About by Maryl Wilsned

Podcasts (so a lot of these do cover topics like racism and homophobia etc but honestly they're really interesting please give them a listen)

Wholehearted Coaching by Shirin Eskandani

The Hey Girl Podcast by Alex Elle

The Homecoming Podcast by Dr Thema Bryant

Making Gay History by Eric Marcus? not entirely sure who its by but 100% listen to it

Bad With Money (literally amazing and so interesting, really forces you to think about stuff deeply, and its kinda funny) Gaby Dunn

Queery by Cameron Esposito

Mystery Books

The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes

Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

The Raven Thief by Gigi Pandian

Someone Else's Life by Lyn Liao Butler

Sisters of the Lost Nation by Nick Medina

The King is Dead by Benjamin Dean

How to Die Famous by Benjamin Dean

Fortune Favours the Dead by Stephen Spotswood

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Not totally the same thing but 'Foul is Fair' by Hannah Capin is a Macbeth high school retelling told from the perspective of 'Lady Macbeth'. She gets assaulted and switches schools to convince the boys who assaulted her to kill each other. Its really good, highly recommend. Female Rage at is finest.

i like the idea of doing shakespeare adaptations set in high school a la 10 things i hate about you or she's the man but i feel like we're missing some opportunities by only doing the comedies. i wanna see macbeth but it's about a really high stakes student council election