What an honor to join these amazing women to contribute to this excellent article by Romper’s Jennifer Parris. I have been working for years with my daughter to get her high school English Class curriculums to be less white, less of a sausage-fest, and it has been an uphill battle to say the least. Many, many White Men in all facets of life, but particularly in academia, are not fans of celebrating any other perspectives or art other than those made by fellow White Men. This bullshit nonsense guides far too many public school syllabuses and it is dangerous, it is mediocre, and it needs to end. Women BIPOC authors should make up the bulk of any English Lit curriculum in American education, and that’s the hill I will die on. Keep fighting, keep reading, keep reading, let’s never give up.

https://www.romper.com/p/how-to-advocate-for-diversity-in-your-kids-curriculum-at-school-22962505