Voices and Echoes: Minority Author Spotlights
As Texas legislations tighten around books, minority voices are being restricted, erased, and forgotten. In a country where all should be equal regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender, this should not be accepted. The need of context and dialogue is important now more than ever.
Students Against Censorship presents to you Voices and Echoes: a weekly minority author spotlight interview session in which we find out their voice, their journey - and attempt to take it into our daily lives and inherit the important message as an echo.
Episode #1: Saul Paul
"When dismantling a system, it comes down to using your platform as a leverage in advocacy."
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Author of Be the Change
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Founder of #Be the Change Challenge
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1x GRAMMY Nominated Producer
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2x GRAMMY Nominated Artist
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3x TEDX Talker
Episode #2: Gloria Amescua
"I'm just here trying to make people proud of who they are."
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Author of Child of the Flower-song People
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Pura Belpré Honor Author Award
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Américas Award Co-Winner 2022
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2023 RISE Top Ten Feminist Book Project
Episode #3: Huda Al-Marashi
"The burden of representation is not only ours to be held."
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Author of First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
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Co-Author of the Walter Dean Myers Award-Winning Novel: Grounded
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Fellow and mentor with the Highlights Foundation Muslim Storytellers Program
Episode #4: Darcie Little Badger
"Attempts to ban my books were not about them being inappropriate. It was an attempt at erasure, of just us native people just existing."
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Lipan Apache author of Elatsoe, which was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy books of all time
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Won the Locus award for Best First Novel and is a Nebula, Ignyte, and Lodestar finalist.
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Author of A Snake Falls to Earth, which received a Nebula Award, an Ignyte Award, and a Newbery Honor and is on the National Book Awards longlist.
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Author of Sheine Lende and was a USA Today bestseller.
Episode #5: John Henry
"ADHD can be a superpower as much as it can be a burden."
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A short story in Mythulu Magazine (Thing of Bones)
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A short story published in a larger work, Folkloric (The Dirt Path)