The Importance and Challenges of #OwnVoices
Theme:
Muggle Studies Book Club (LeakyLit)
What:
Panel
When:
3:15 PM, Saturday 10 Aug 2019 CDT
(1 hour)
Where:
Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center
- Occamy Room (D170/172)
The #OwnVoices movement advocates for stories about marginalized communities to be written by people who actually fit the description on the page. Our panel will discuss why #OwnVoices matters, whether there are–or should be–exceptions to the rules, and the work that goes into building fictional worlds as diverse as the world we live in.