I had a few librarians interested in diving further into equity work ask me about who I learn from on Twitter, so I started a Twitter list entitled "DEI" (diversity equity inclusion) that currently has 47 accounts to suggest to them. It is certainly not an exhaustive list, but it includes many of the folks I've learned a great deal from this year or recently. (Since I am a school librarian, some of these folks are publishers, advocates for diverse books, and so forth. But many are individuals or organizations that are putting in DEI work.) A few of the folks I've learned the most from this year have been Clear the Air and founder Val Brown; Disrupt Texts and founders Dr. Kim Parker, Tricia Ebarvia, Lorena German, Julia E. Torres; Dr. Debbie Reese; Dr. Erica Buchanan Rivera; Cornelius Minor and his book We Got This, Heinemann's Beyond the Letters Podcast with hosts Kate Roberts and Maggie B. Roberts; and Teaching Tolerance.
Not everything you read will be comfortable or easy to hear, and frankly some of it shouldn't be. There have been times where things I read stung or started raising old defenses. But that pain, that discomfort, that defensiveness I have felt is because someone's sharing a truth that's particularly difficult for me to acknowledge. We all have those moments. But we have to be willing to put ourselves in a place of potential discomfort when we're learning. If we shut down or refuse to listen, we don't learn anything. Know that you'll likely feel uncomfortable or upset at some point. Be okay with that. Don't shy away from the discomfort. Embrace it. Dissect it. Push past it.
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