Today I have the good fortune to be speaking with writers and illustrators at Indiana’s SCBWI regional conference about the topic of Writing Outside One’s Culture. I have lots to say about this subject, so let’s hope I get it all said within the allotted time. 🙂
There’s a hand-out to accompany my talk, full of good resources on the internet. To make it clickably easy, I’m posting those sites here. Happy writing!
Helpful Internet Places
GLAAD’s media reference guide on transgenderÂ
Lee Wind’s blog
Latin@s in Kid Lit
Malinda Lo’s guide to LGBT YA
Black Girl Nerds
Disability in Kid Lit
Diversity in YA
Lee and Low’s blog
DiversifYA
American Indians in Children’s Literature
Articles to Read
Rainbow Rowell on why Park is Korean
CCBC stats and explanation
Jacqueline Jules on being an outsider
Mitali Perkins’ race checklist for writers
Malinda Lo’s Avoiding LGBTQ stereotype post
Lisa Schroeder’s blog post about writing diverse characters