Talk:Diversity in young adult fiction

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Ownvoices[edit]

The ownvoices section is written in a way that sounds like a personal opinion rather than stating facts.

Some examples: "Nothing but a memoir comes close to representing an author’s background completely.", "The movement is important because..."

Again, those aren't facts, they're opinions.

Also, saying "marginalized authors" sounds kind of odd. I think it'd be better to replace it with "authors that are part of minority groups" "non-white, LGBT and disabled authors" or something along those lines.

Another example of awkward phrasing: "Books about diverse characters written by authors from the same diverse identity." It's just bizarre to say that a real person's race, sexual orientation or disability is a "diverse identity".

Hipotecas (talk) 07:46, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I've made some edits which remove all of these except the last one, which I couldn't think of a better alternative for. Dan Bloch (talk)

Needs section on 2020 to present.[edit]

Most of the sources and quotes are from before 2020. Young adult fiction and especially New York Times bestsellers are either an author or protagonist who is not a white cis male since 2020.

restructuring it to 2020 to present, then 1980 to 2020, then before 1980 would be best.

Statistics on reader demographics is needed because they will buy and read books with protagonists like themselves.

self promoting quotes from authors who would benefit from more diversity in book protagonists should be removed. The author is self promoting their genre and type of protagonist and is an advetorial. 2600:1700:D591:5F10:709D:A912:1547:42BF (talk) 21:51, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Several of the sources are just self promotional blogs or nonprofits featuring and promoting authors. Those are not reliable sources. Editorials by those same self promoting persons in newspapers are not reliable sources since they are only there to promote an authors own books, or fellow authors books. 2600:1700:D591:5F10:709D:A912:1547:42BF (talk) 22:10, 7 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]