Nonprofit Spotlight: Why I Support Breakthrough Austin
I appreciated the opportunity to speak at Breakthrough Austin’s Beat the Odds Benefit. I shared my newcomer’s perspective on
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I had the honor of participating in a lively discussion on HuffPost Live recently about an outcry over the misrepresentation of
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Instead, I found the same old, same old: an overwhelmingly white and male list. It featured just three women authors —
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As I watch the #weneeddiversebooks hashtag fly on Twitter, I’m reminded that seeing some element of yourself reflected in the
Read the postOn Singing the Blues
My eyes scanned the words. They were happy. No one was singing the blues. But the words did not compute. I never, with my
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