DISABILITIES & DIFFERENCES

DISABILITIES & DIFFERENCES

ByCristina Castor

For this week, we are featuring children’s books embracing disabilities and differences. It is beneficial to read books such as these to promote inclusion, engage in discussions, and help cope with difficult feelings, which is important when reading about children with disabilities. I have listed 18 books below that you can check out in the…

Learn About: Asian American + Pacific Islander Heritage Month
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Learn About: Asian American + Pacific Islander Heritage Month

ByTwinkle Snowflake

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month – a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States. A rather broad term, Asian/Pacific encompasses all of the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. The month of May was chosen to commemorate the immigration of the first Japanese to the United…
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Conspiracy theories: Linked to literature (Peter Knight)

ByEdward Eggleston

“Literary plots have long been connected to conspiracy theories, which are, in essence, acts of the imagination. But these fictitious notions – often created under the guise of making sense of the world around us – can sometimes have very real, even tragic, consequences on our lives, the author explains.”