The topic of diversity has been getting more and more attention in past years, including within the book community, with all kinds of initiatives to promote diverse titles and all kinds of blogs to discuss them. To be specific, it’s for recommending books with characters from a marginalised group written by an author from that same marginalised group. #OwnVoices is a hashtag for sharing book recommendations which I first suggested using in September 2015. If you’ve never heard of OwnVoices, here is exactly what it means: But there is still time! And you should be reading OwnVoices books year round, so it’s still helpful.) But it’s even more important this month, because it’s Pride Month. This month, you should be making a conscious effort to mainly read books about queer characters, and by queer authors. It’s important to read queer books, especially OwnVoices ones, all the time.
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