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cupofteajones · 2 years

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The Diverse Book Awards 2022 Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the @The_DBAwards! @skinofthesea @NotAgainBen @KiaAbdullah

What a list of winners! Last week, the 2022 winners of The Diverse Book Awards were announced. There were so many great books that made the longlist and shortlist, but alas all of them could not take home the prize. But the winners and runners-up that made the cut are books that really highlight the necessity and importance of diverse books. (more…)

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sometiktoksarevalid · 9 months

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#cc #diversity in publishing #booktok #stonewall book awards

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graphicpolicy · 9 months

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Some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day #comics #comicbooks

It’s a new week and we’ve got a lot coming. There’s still SDCC and Otakon coverage and so much more. Stay tuned! We’re kicking off the day with news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup. Deadline – ‘The Incredible Hulk’ Director On The Scrapped Sequel Plans: “There Was A Lot Of Good Stuff We Were Planning” – Better than bad stuff. Kotaku – Fortnite Has A Museum Dedicated To…

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#batman: the adventures continue #comic books #Comics #dwayne mcduffie award for diversity in comics #fortnite #magneto #purr evil #rivers edge #star wars: dark droids #the incredible hulk #the nib #werewolf jones and sons

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redgoldsparks · 8 months

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My very last comic for The Nib! End of an era! Transcription below the cut. instagram / patreon / portfolio / etsy / my book / redbubble

The first event I went to with GENDER QUEER was in NYC in 2019 at the Javits Center.

So many of the people who came to my signing were librarians, and so many of them said the same thing: "I know exactly who I want to give this to!" Maia: "Thank you for helping readers find my book!" While working on the book, I was genuinely unsure if anyone outside of my family and close friends would read it. But the early support of librarians and two American Library Association awards helped sell two print runs in first year.

Since then, GENDER QUEER been published in 8 languages, with more on the way: Spanish, Czech, Polish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese and Dutch.

It has also been the most banned book in the United States for the past two years. The American Library Association has tracked an astronomical increase in book challenges over the past few years. Most of these challenges are to books with diverse characters and LGBTQ themes. These challenges are coming unevenly across the US, in a pattern that mirrors the legislative attacks on LGBTQ people. The Brooklyn Public Library offered free eCards to anyone in the US aged 13-21, in an effort to make banned books more available to young readers. A teacher in Norman, Oklahoma gave her students the QR code for the free eCard and lost her job. Summer Boismeir is now working for the Brooklyn Public Library. Hoopla and Libby/Overdrive, apps used to access digital library books, are now banned in Mississippi to anyone under 18. Some libraries won’t allow anyone under 18 to get any kind of library card without parental permission. When librarians in Jamestown, Michigan refused to remove GENDER QUEER and several other books, the citizens of the town voted down the library’s funding in the fall 2022 election. Without funding, the library is due to close in mid-2024. My first event since covid hit was the American Library Association conference in June 2022 in Washington, DC. Once again, the librarians in my signing line all had similar stories for me: “Your book was challenged in our district" "It was returned to the shelf!" "It was removed from the shelf..." "It was moved to the adult section."

Over and over I said: "Thank you. Thank you for working so hard to keep my book in your library. I’m sorry you had to defend it, but thank you for trying, even if it didn't work." We are at a crossroads of freedom of speech and censorship. The future of libraries, both publicly funded and in schools, are at stake. This is massively impacting the daily lives of librarians, teachers, students, booksellers, and authors around the country. In May 2023, I read an article from the Washington Post analyzing nearly 1000 of the book challenges from the 2021-2022 school year. I was literally on route to a festival to talk about book bans when I read a startling statistic. 60% of the 1000 book challenges were submitted by just 11 people. One man alone was responsible for 92 challenges. These 11 people seem to have made submitting copy-cat book challenges their full-time hobby and their opinions are having an outsized ripple effect across the nation. WE NEED TO MAKE THE VOICES SUPPORTING DIVERSE BOOKS AND OPPOSING BOOK BANS EVEN LOUDER. If you are able too, show up for your library and school board meetings when book challenges are debated. Send supportive comments and emails about the Pride book display and Drag Queen story hours. If you see a display you like– for Banned Book Week, AAPI Month, Black History Month, Disability Awareness Month, Jewish holidays, Trans Day of Remembrance– compliment a librarian! Make sure they feel the love stronger than the hate <3

Maia Kobabe, 2023

The Nib

#maia kobabe #banned books #library funding #comics #book challenges

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jcmarchi · 5 months

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Richard Fletcher named a 2023 Packard Fellow

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Richard Fletcher named a 2023 Packard Fellow

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has announced that atomic physicist Richard Fletcher, assistant professor of physics and a researcher at MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) and the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), has been named a 2023 Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering. The Packard Foundation Fellowships are one of the most prestigious and well-funded nongovernmental awards for early-career scientists.

Fletcher is one of 20 innovative early-career scientists and engineers named to the 2023 class of Packard Fellows for Science and Engineering. Two MIT alumni were also named: Ritchie Chen SM ’13, PhD ’16 and Yang Yang PhD ’16, both now at the University of California at San Francisco. Each fellow receives $875,000 over five years to pursue their research.

“It’s a tremendous honor to be awarded a Packard Fellowship, and I’m very grateful to the foundation for their support of our work,” says Fletcher. “It’s quite inspiring to look down the list of alumni, and I hope that we will live up to the same high standards.”

Fletcher and his lab use precisely controlled gases of atoms at ultracold temperatures to create and study exciting types of quantum matter. He uses atomic vapors, which are a million times thinner than air and a million times colder than interstellar space, which in turn are manipulated by laser beams and magnetic fields, he says.

“In many systems in nature, the behavior of many particles is qualitatively different to the underlying single-particle physics,” he explains. “For example, superconductivity is the frictionless flow of electrical current, which occurs in many low-temperature materials, but you can’t understand it from the physics of a single electron. In turns out that in general, describing the emergence of macroscopic phenomena from microscopic ingredients is really hard once the rule book is quantum mechanical.

“We approach this problem by building little tailor-made quantum worlds, formed by very cold gases of atoms, a million times colder than deep space, controlled and manipulated by laser beams and magnetic fields. In particular, since these platforms are free from many of the constraints imposed by real materials, we can use them to create states of matter that nature has simply never allowed to exist before. And honestly, some of the time we just use these exquisite tools we’ve developed to simply play around and have fun in the lab, and see what surprises experiments throw our way. That’s what I love most about experimental science!”

A native of Chester, U.K., he earned his undergraduate degree in 2010 and his PhD in 2015 from Cambridge University, and in between those degrees he was a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University. His thesis focused on the interplay of superfluidity and Bose-Einstein condensation in two dimensions. In 2016, he arrived at MIT as a Pappalardo Fellow, working with Martin Zwierlein on quantum fluids in artificial magnetic fields, and joined the MIT faculty in 2020. In 2022 he was awarded the AFOSR Young Investigator Award.

Past Packard fellows have gone on to receive such honors as the Nobel Prize in chemistry and physics, the Fields Medal, Alan T. Waterman Awards, Breakthrough Prizes, Kavli Prizes, and elections to the national academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Each year, the foundation invites 50 universities to nominate two faculty members for consideration. The Packard Fellowships Advisory Panel, a group of 12 internationally recognized scientists and engineers, evaluates the nominations and recommends fellows for approval by the Packard Foundation Board of Trustees. The Packard Foundation also continues to support fellows as they undertake a variety of self-directed initiatives to support diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM through additional targeted grants.

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kajmasterclass · 7 months

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#The Ethical Dilemma of Artificial Intelligence with Guy Morris The Ethical Dilemma of Artificial Intelligence with Guy Morris Retired fr #high-tech and global energy #Guy Morris has also been a published song writer for Disney Records #a patented inventor #a Coast Guard charter captain #an adventurer #and now #a self-published author of thrillers. From cartel death threats in Latin America to the shark diving in Moorea – from a Board Room to a #Guy pulls from a rich life of diverse experience to write books that thrill #educate #and inspire thoughtful dialogue on genuine issues facing humanity. Since his 2021 debut as an indie-author #Guy has released three pulse-pounding thrillers inspired by true stories #the under-spoken dangers of artificial intelligence #global politics and history. His Kirkus recommended books have earned BookTrib’s Best 25 Books of 2021 #Reader’s Favorite 2021 Gold Award #and 2023 Silver award #as well as 2021 finalist for IAN Book of the Year. ai tech kajmasterclass #Youtube

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literallyaflame · 10 months

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“fanfiction,” as a concept, only exists because of intellectual property. at the end of the day, it’s just fiction. some of it is great, some of it sucks ass. sometimes, it can reveal something damning about the author—prejudices, biases, whether or not they think cats should be left indoors, how they feel about offshore tax evasion, whatever. that’s the nature of fiction. this is not news to anyone who’s ever opened a book

what’s truly unique about fanfiction is that it’s anonymous and free with a barrier to entry that ants wouldn’t notice climbing. also, it’s amateur by necessity; barring a few notable exceptions, nobody expects their gaudy slash fiction to win them an award or make them a million dollars. this crock pot of internet fuckery lends itself to two things—a monumental diversity of skill level and buck wild nasty behavior

fanfiction is neither god’s gift to all man kind nor an incurable blight. it’s just a thing. that exists. it’s neither defenseless nor indefensible. it can be harmful, helpful, or benign. more importantly, it’s not going anywhere, so i wish we’d stop arguing about whether or not it’s “legitimate” and talk about what’s actually happening with it instead

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genieinanovel · 9 months

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Review: On Air With Zoe Washington

Two years ago, Zoe Washington helped clear Marcus’ name for a crime he didn’t commit. Now her birth father has finally been released from prison and to an outpouring of community support, so everything should be perfect.When Marcus reveals his dream of opening his own restaurant, Zoe becomes determined to help him achieve it–with her as his pastry chef of course. However, starting a new place is…

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#baking fiction #bipoc author #black representation #book lover #book review #book review blog #books set in boston #boston setting #connecticut author #ct author #diverse reads #genie in a novel #local author #middle grade fiction #middle grade novel #nutmeg award #the innocence project #ya fiction #young adult novel

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musingsofmonica · 9 months

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Announcing The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize Longlist

Congratulations to the debut novelists on this longlist for the 2023 First Novel Prize! 🎉

#books #bookworm #bookish #bibliophile #book lover #bookaddict #reading #book #booklr #bookaholic #literary awards #literary #literature #readers #long reads #author #read diversely #diverse reads

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angela-yuriko-smith · 10 months

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StokerCon Highlights, Authortunity Angels, and Monstrous Books

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Welcome to Authortunities Forecast, my new show which covers publishing industry news and highlights some of the most noteworthy items from my Authortunities weekly calendar mail out. Follow the link to get a head start on open submission calls, grants, contests, fellowships, high value opportunities and paying markets+ weekly in your inbox.…

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cupofteajones · 2 years

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The Diverse Book Awards 2022 Longlist

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desdasiwrites · 1 year

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– Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

#book quote of the day #yoko ogawa #yōko ogawa #the memory police #ogawa have won every major Japanese literary award actually #sci fi books #dystopian #japanese literature #japanese author #magical realism #translated books #diverse reads #non ya #book quotes

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graphicpolicy · 4 months

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Comic news from around the web to start the day #comics #comicbooks

We’ve still got a packed day of news. Happy holidays everyone! The Beat – Finalists announced for 8th Annual DWAYNE McDUFFIE AWARD FOR DIVERSITY IN COMICS – Congrats to all! The Beat – Eisner Awards Hall of Fame evolves with separate event and judging panel in 2024 – A good move. The Comics Journal – Roger Hill, Early Comics Fan, Historian and Scholar, Dies at 75 – Our thoughts are with his…

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#animal pound #comic books #Comics #dwayne mcduffie award for diversity in comics #eisner awards #original x-men #roger hill #underheist #where the body was

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ourbastardofsorrows · 1 year

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not grumpy anymore--my donors choose project just got funded!

#tia text #i made one for a school project & i almost wonder if my prof donated???#it was just a project to get some award-winning authentic literature by diverse authors into the classroom library #so things like healer of the water monster. when you trap a tiger. etc.#i'm super excited to use them for book study with small group!!!#yes i was grumpy from 2:31 until now (5:34 pm)

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thebibliosphere · 11 months

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Hello Tumblr! I am posting this on behalf of the Queer Liberation Library, who don't yet have a Tumblr, but have promised me they're working on it. Some of you may remember them from the Twitter Poll I was involved in a few months ago where Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites beat multiple award-winning, trad-pub queer authors with a hefty 69% (nice).

For those of you unaware, the Queer Liberation Library, or QLL, is an organization fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community.

And today, June 12th, 2023, they launched their fundraiser to try and reach 15k so that they can start purchasing digital licensing for queer media and hopefully open their digital doors to library patrons across the US in 2023 with as many queer and trans books as possible.

You can check out their newly redesigned website here:

(If you are in an unsafe space and need to exit the webpage quickly, there is a quick exit bar at the top that redirects to a weather page. When I spoke to them about their web design they were also open to accessibility suggestions and are potentially working on a dark mode for those of us who need it.)

If you know me, you know I am unequivocally pro-library, both as a reader and a queer writer. But with the current rise of homophobia, transphobia, and the proposed ban on books taking hold in certain States, the importance of having protected access queer books cannot be over-emphasized enough.

The QLL aims to protect that access, aiming to provide FREE access to queer and trans media (ebook and audio) to patrons regardless of location within the United States.

They are funded entirely through regular donations from their supporters and their now annual Pride fundraiser, where they hope to afford the cost of not just library books but also maintaining their web presence and staff.

I cannot emphasize enough how much this project is a labor of love for everyone involved and its importance.

And just to clarify, I am not involved in any way beyond raising awareness. When QLL reached out and asked me to retweet their fundraiser tweets, I readily agreed and offered to post about it on Tumblr because I believe in their mission and the world they are trying to build.

One where queer and trans books can't be banned or taken off of shelves because of bigotry and hatred.

If you would like to donate to the cause, you can do so here:

They've already surpassed their first 2k, and it'd be absolutely wonderful if we could help them reach their next milestone. And if you can't give, please consider signal boosting this post.

You can also follow QLL at:

Twitter: @queerliblib

Instagram: @queerliblib

Tiktok: @queerliblib

#queer liberation library #qll #fundraising #lgbt books #queer books #signal boost

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neil-gaiman · 1 year

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In a conversation about Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship, someone made this comment, something i feel is very off base of your character, but is there anything say able to someone so unable to see diversity as anything beyond "pandering"

I'm the same person that was writing the gay characters and the trans characters in Sandman about 35 years ago. I liked selling books to the demographic of people who read who are are okay with gay characters and need to meet trans characters. When Death: The Time of Your Life was given the GLAAD award for Outstanding Comic in 1997, I was thrilled. And very happy to get the award. And to keep writing characters of all kinds. I don't think we sold books back then because Sandman was "progressive". We sold Sandman and Death because people wanted to find out what happened next. I think it's the same with Good Omens and with the other characters out there now.

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