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Book Challenges Suppress Diversity
Analysis of the most banned/challenged books in the U.S. shows that diverse books are disproportionately targeted for book challenges and censorship. By Malinda Lo Over the summer, a Delaware school...
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DiYA’s Middle Grade Month Giveaway
Although Diversity in YA focuses on young adult books, we couldn’t help but notice the great diverse middle grade titles out this year, so we decided to spend a full month focused on these books!...
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Aisha Saeed Gives Us the Inside Track on the We Need Diverse Books IndieGogo...
By Cindy Pon Last Thursday, We Need Diverse Books™ kicked off their IndieGogo campaign to raise $100,000 to fund their advocacy efforts. Aisha Saeed, WNDB’s Vice President of Strategy, dropped by DiYA...
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2014 LGBT YA by the Numbers
By Malinda Lo For the last three years I’ve been tracking the number of young adult novels about LGBT1 characters. Here are my statistics from 2011, 2012, and 2013, as well as an overview of LGBT YA...
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2014 Holiday Gift Guide
For the last two and a half weeks we’ve been posting our Holiday Gift Guide daily on tumblr. Here’s our baker’s dozen of gift-shopping suggestions rounded up in one big post for your shopping and...
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Representing Diversity on 2014 YA Book Covers
By Malinda Lo Representing non-white, non-straight, disabled characters on a book cover is a complicated thing to do well. A book cover must represent the story told in the book, of course, but it also...
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This essay was originally posted in four parts on Tumblr. By Malinda Lo For the past few years, I’ve read hundreds of reviews for Diversity in YA. I read them to determine whether a young adult book...
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Diversity in YA’s 2015 Anniversary Giveaway
Diversity in YA launched online in January 2011, and in February 2013 we joined tumblr. This winter marks our fourth anniversary overall, and two years on tumblr. We’re a little tardy on marking our...
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10 New & Debut Asian American YA Authors
In honor of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, here are 10 new and debut Asian American YA authors for you to check out. Support them today so they can publish more books tomorrow! Sona Charaipotra...
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Cover reveal: SERPENTINE by Cindy Pon
We are soooo excited to help reveal, in conjunction with Month9Books, the cover for DiYA co-founder Cindy Pon’s next YA fantasy, Serpentine, which will be published Sept. 8, 2015! Be sure to enter the...
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DiYA’s Fantasy & Science Fiction Month Giveaway
This month (well, roughly — we mean Sept. 7 – Oct. 7, 2015) we are doing something special here at Diversity in YA: focusing on fantasy and science fiction with main characters who are non-white,...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Researching Your Diverse* Fantasy or Science Fiction Novel
This month for Fantasy and Science Fiction Month, we’ve invited Asks about writing diverse fantasy and science fiction. This answer comes from writer and DiYA co-founder Malinda Lo. * “Diverse” = a...
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People of Color on YA Book Covers in 2015
We’ve been tracking new releases all year, and as the year comes to a close it’s interesting take a look back and see how people of color have been represented on book covers. In putting together this...
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WANT Cover Reveal
By Cindy Pon Every book I have written is a book of my heart, but WANT is especially dear to me. A near-future thriller set in Taipei, it is an ode to my birth city, the vibrancy of which is deeply...
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