dr seuss books that weren’t written by dr seuss. troubling 🤔
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i guarantee there’s no better way to pass your anxieties on to the next generation than by writing children’s books totally suffused with them
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the most antiracist possible children’s book would be some shit like “wow look at all these cool fucking rocks,” you want to get children concretely engaged with the world and *not* with their identities
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you think black girls won’t notice they’re apparently the only kids who need an entire bookshelf to tell them that they’re “enough”???
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from the faces on the books alone you’d think black girls make up 70% of the population, meanwhile apparently 2% of the actual population of this city is black. so who are these books *for*???
meanwhile redmond is 36% asian and there’s *zero* asian representation
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in conclusion: how do i become a children’s book author, apparently they’ll let any old millennial do this shit now
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i have much more interesting anxieties to pass on to the next generation, such as: “is god dead?” “have we forgotten how to run civilization?” “have we called up that which we don’t know how to put down?”
gotta be worth a book deal or two
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Is it though?
Are you not aware of the research done into how black children do better in classes when they have a black teacher?
"I am enough" is merely a descendant of the Civil Rights Era 'black and proud' which was obviously necessary.
Not everyone has aloof privilege.
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The black experience particularly, as I understand it, is that the anxieties keep being adaptive. The dialog between the optimists and the pessimists in the black community favors the pessimists.
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lol
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working on a dystopian version of richard scarry's 'busy, busy town'
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i do think writing children’s books and then *not* distributing them could be an interesting therapeutic exercise!
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