{"id":67128,"date":"2016-10-14T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayagonzalez.com\/blog\/?p=67128"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T23:18:34","slug":"equality-childrens-book-industry-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mayagonzalez.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/equality-childrens-book-industry-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Equality in the Children’s Book Industry Possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we look at CCBC\u2019s statistics<\/a> in the framework of how many books we need to make to stand in equity with white Americans, we begin to understand our real position. I estimate that the children\u2019s book industry would have to increase its production level by 45% to accommodate an equitable increase in children\u2019s books by PoC and indigenous voices.<\/p>\n

Including LGBTQ and disabled numbers helps flesh out the conversation and continues to illustrate the relationship between power and presence in children\u2019s books.<\/p>\n

In order to significantly change these numbers and what they represent, beyond children\u2019s books, we need to take our creativity into our own hands.<\/p>\n

With greater accessibility to indie-publishing we NOW have the opportunity to begin not just publishing our own voice, but healing ourselves from generations of ancestral silence and invisibility through our own power.<\/p>\n

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