<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Kirsten, this was such a good article. Weighty and it took me some time to get through it, but well worth it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This was eye opening for sure - the gatekeeping power of publishers (with more and more of a monopoly):</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(1,1,1);font-family:"PT Serif",serif;font-size:19px">If we expand past the picture of the moment of cancelation, we can call the systematic exclusion of authors of color a long-game form of cancelation. The </span><a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/82284-new-lee-and-low-survey-shows-no-progress-on-diversity-in-publishing.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:inherit;font-family:"PT Serif",serif;font-size:19px">Lee and Low survey</a><span style="color:rgb(1,1,1);font-family:"PT Serif",serif;font-size:19px"> from the summer of 2020 was a pretty damning picture of an overall failure of the publishing industry to include diverse voices. You can even tell when </span><a href="https://zora.medium.com/toni-morrison-as-an-editor-changed-book-publishing-forever-5b6127a40afa" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:inherit;font-family:"PT Serif",serif;font-size:19px">Toni Morrison was working as an editor</a><span style="color:rgb(1,1,1);font-family:"PT Serif",serif;font-size:19px"> because there is a noticeable jump in books published by Black authors.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial black, sans-serif" size="2" color="#000000">Miranda Doyle (she/her)</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif">District Teacher-Librarian, LOSD</span></div></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">📚 </span><span style="background-color:initial;font-family:"apple color emoji","segoe ui emoji","noto color emoji","android emoji",emojisymbols,"emojione mozilla","twemoji mozilla","segoe ui symbol";color:rgb(0,0,0)">🔍 </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTBid5ikw5r6LzszG7D9DlNvk0reRrXuppC5w0j9bymVwL-Om7suKdjBQ_Omxg74M5qdR2zftyMz_9A/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000" style="text-align:center" target="_blank">Virtual Library</a> & <a href="http://soraapp.com/library/lakeoswegoor/" target="_blank">LOSD ebooks/audio</a></div><div><span style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center">💻 </span><span style="text-align:center;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://losdhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us" target="_blank">Tech Work Order</a> </span></div><div>☎️ Google Voice: <span style="font-family:"Google Sans","Helvetica Neue",sans-serif">(503) 272-1411 </span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 1:37 PM Kirsten Brodbeck-Kenney via OLA-IF-News <<a href="mailto:ola-if-news@omls.oregon.gov">ola-if-news@omls.oregon.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,95,112)">Kirsten Brodbeck-Kenney</span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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