Antiracist Children's Library

04/29/2021

When I stated that antifatness was important to Ma’Khia’s death, I was met with violent antifatness, fatphobia, and flat-out denial. The responses, as vile and repulsive as they were, only served to prove my point. Ma’Khia was a “bigger target” and deserved to be killed. She was a 16-year-old girl, a child. Because she was fat, people denied her adolescence and forced her into pseudo-adulthood to rationalize why the police “had” to kill her.

When I stated that antifatness was important to Ma’Khia’s death, I was met with violent antifatness, fatphobia, and flat-out denial.

03/02/2021

Flesch book came out one year after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Racists, who would rather have no public schools than integrated ones, used Flesch’s book and studies to argue that U.S. inequities were owing to inferior teaching methods by bad women teachers and poor study habits of Black students.

So Dr. Seuss was part of the “disruption” that took place in education once it was no longer legal to discriminate against Black children.

We all know the bizarre racist and ableist teaching techniques that eugenics flavored standardization creates — “Cat in the Hat” was the beginning of that.

It was supposed to be a fun way for children to learn reading....

Of course people change, but clearly the only thing Seuss changed was his name. Seuss made an entire children't book series based on the stereotype of Black man jazz musician.

07/10/2020

A conservative estimate of lunchtime, unplanned emergency, and going home. Black, Latinx, Indigenous students and teachers would have FRIGHTENING 90.8% infected exposure COVID19 rate risk. In comparison, white students and teachers would have an alarming 38% infected exposure COVID19 risk rate. In comparison, This is nothing less than violent racism.

A conservative estimate of lunchtime, unplanned emergency, and going home. While white students and teachers would have an alarming 38% infected exposure COVID19 risk rate. In comparison, Black, Latinx, Indigenous students and teachers would have FRIGHTENING 90.8% infected exposure COVID19 rate risk. This is nothing less than violent racism.

07/07/2020

As a person who experienced many horribly written Children’s books by people who were neither antiracist nor Black, yet chose to write a "Black" book, I say if it has no Black person's creative input, it's not a Black children's book. It can be a "diverse" book. Only 212 Black children's books were published last year.

06/30/2020

Black Children’s Literary Journal. Submissions being accepted now from works by adults writing for Black children. Afrofuturism, Black Language, African Futurism, Folktales, Oral Storytelling, hip-hop and dub poetry, twists on colonizer forms, and more!

Black Children's Literary Journal. Poems and short stories for Black children written by adults from the African Diaspora.

06/28/2020

Let Black Children Speak!
"Anti-black linguistic racism refers to the linguistic violence, persecution, dehumanization, and marginalization that Black Language (BL) speakers endure when using their language in schools and in everyday life. It includes teachers’ silencing, correcting, and policing students when they communicate in BL." (Baker-Bell, 2020)

06/27/2020

Of the 3,312 children’s books published last year only 28% where about BIPOC and for books about Black people, most were written by white people.

06/23/2020

�“It is important for educators to acknowledge that antiblackness infects educators' work in schools, and serves as a form of (everyday) violence against Black children and their families. This acknowledgment is different from a broad stance against intolerance or racism, or an admission of the existence of white privilege.” ~Dr Michael Dumas 2016