Maggie #TokudaHall: "What #publishing, our dubious white ally, does so often to marginalized creators. They want the credibility of our identities, want to market our biographies. They want to sell our suffering, smoothed down and made palatable to the white readers they prioritize. To assuage white guilt with stories that promise to make them better people, while never threatening them, not even with discomfort. They have no investment in our voices. Always, our voices are the first sacrifice at the altar of marketability.

And excuse my language, but absolutely the fuck not."

https://www.prettyokmaggie.com/blog/2023/4/11/scholastic-and-a-faustian-bargain #Scholastic #books #library #racism #whiteSupremacy #whiteness #commOdon #literature #childBooks