Lately, I've been doing a lot of thinking about my motives for doing this blog. How do I -- a White, middle-class person who has experienced life-long privilege -- have the authority to write about books written by authors and depicting characters with different backgrounds than me? Am I engaging in de facto segregation by writing about diverse books and labeling them as "diverse" and "multicultural"?
Q4: Othering inclusive books is a major concern. How can we avoid that in daily blogging and in inclusive features? #WeNeedDiverseBlogs
— Nicole Brinkley (@nebrinkley) October 19, 2015
Am I, as this tweet says, "othering inclusive books" by drawing attention to them? I know that my intentions are good, but I also know that good intentions can be damaging if they perpetuate unquestioned privilege and continue to draw lines between "mainstream" and "other."Just some questions I've been wrestling with. What are your thoughts?
