{"id":908,"date":"2015-10-15T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T19:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayagonzalez.com\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2015-10-17T19:10:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T02:10:24","slug":"knock-knock-whos-there-interrupting-chupacabra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mayagonzalez.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/knock-knock-whos-there-interrupting-chupacabra\/","title":{"rendered":"Knock Knock Who’s There? Interrupting Chupacabra!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday I am speaking at the Bay area SCBWI Oktoberfest<\/a>. One of my talks is titled, Get Radical! Why Radical Thinkers Are Needed in the Children\u2019s Book World<\/em>. Apparently my reputation precedes me because I didn\u2019t come up with the title. I simply and happily slid into place upon arrival. I was planning to talk about my nonwestern, holistic approach to children\u2019s books and how as poc, disabled and lgbtqi2s folks, creating children\u2019s books can provide an amazing opportunity to heal the effects of silence and exclusion at the same time as we create strong powerful stories for our kids. (wow, talk about an elevator pitch!)<\/p>\n

Buuuuut, I\u2019m feeling the pull<\/em> to talk about something more. I\u2019ll touch on that stuff, but I LOVE to listen to my<\/em> pulls.<\/em> I also love it when I’m invited to speak specifically because I can talk radically to the radical. So I\u2019m thinking this talk will have more to do with following our desire and owning our power and agency. In other words, I’ll bring the creation of Whaleheart<\/em><\/a> into the convo!<\/p>\n

\"23<\/a>I\u2019m realizing Whaleheart<\/em> was a doorway for me. The opportunity to feel completely free to do what I wanted to do, to publish who I wanted to publish, to write what I wanted to write, make arte the way I wanted, everything was mine to decide with Matthew. It was exhilarating. The only thing that comes close to matching that feeling of pure power and joy, was sharing it with the 23 artistauthors we published.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a small and simple book. But for many of us writing and making art are acts of noncompliance in a world of silence.<\/strong> I want to revel in that moment of noncompliance, that break away feel when you realize nothing can hold you down and you\u2019re writing everything and drawing everything, unfurling the layers to make room for the true. It feels contagious. I don\u2019t know where this feeling stops! If we\u2019re lucky it\u2019s unstoppable because it sounds like the kind of thing that could completely remake the children\u2019s book industry. Our children deserve nothing less!<\/p>\n

\"Monsterize<\/a>\"Write<\/a>NOT SUPRISING, this is totally the spirit of the interrupting chupacabra! Beautiful, loving noncompliance. As I share installment 5 of WRITE NOW! MAKE BOOKS<\/a>, I interrupt this moment to invite you to monsterize yourself! You can see the creation from start to finish of The Interrupting Chupacabra<\/strong><\/span> through the videos. OR if you need, you can go straight to interrupting if you like! Just download this chupacabra<\/a> and go at it! Draw yourself as the interrupter you are! Knock, Knock! Who\u2019s there?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s some good monster in everyone and it\u2019s time to come OUT!<\/p>\n

In the spirit of total interruption and new ways of thinking I\u2019m also including a link to two free coloring pages from Gender Now:<\/p>\n

Gender Now Coloring Page #1<\/a>
\nGender Now Coloring Page #2<\/a><\/p>\n

THERE\u2019S A LOT OF PLAYING TO DO! Better get to it!<\/p>\n

Rock on in the revolution! xomaya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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