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How to Have a Slatebreaking Halloween
It’s Halloween season everybody! That means it’s time for the annual cringe fest that is this year’s crop of inappropriately sexy Halloween costumes! Basically, as anyone who has ever been at a bar on Halloween (or looked at the internet) … Continue reading
Posted in Around the Web
Tagged Amelia Earhart, Beauty Queens, Bink and Gollie, Costumes, Halloween, Inappropriate Sexy, Jessica Darling, Karou, Katniss, Nancy Drew, OK For Now, Sexism, Sweet Valley High
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Slatebreaking Books to Diversify Your Reading
At Slatebreakers, we’re constantly fighting against the stereotype that only male can be universal. But that’s not the only problem. It’s all too easy for books about white, straight characters to be read as the universal experience, while books about … Continue reading
Guest Post: The Problem Is Not The Books
When we read Saundra Mitchell’s blog post “The Problem Is Not the Books,” we heard the beautiful sound of a slate shattering somewhere off in the distance. Saundra has graciously allowed us to re-post this piece from her blog. And … Continue reading
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Tagged "boy books", Covers, Feminism, New York Times, Saundra Mitchell, ya
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