diversity Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/diversity/ Wed, 15 Jun 2016 08:18:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Taking Risks with Co-Writing Diversity http://booksbywomen.org/taking-risks-with-co-writing-diversity-by-hazel-edwards/ http://booksbywomen.org/taking-risks-with-co-writing-diversity-by-hazel-edwards/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2016 08:06:42 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15906 My two most ‘risky’ cultural projects have been co-writing ‘f2m: the boy within’, the first Young Adult novel about transitioning gender co-written by an ftm, and ‘Hijabi Girl’ a fun, junior chapter book which had 41 rejections from traditional publishers before I self -published. I’m not trans and I’m not Muslim. But I do take […]

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