Showing posts with label marginalized. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marginalized. Show all posts

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Blogoversary Celebration Day 1: Interview with book blog, Fangs for the Fantasy +15.00 amazon gift card giveaway

We @ Twinja Book Reviews have been following the amazing blog, Fangs for the Fantasy for some time now.What makes this blog really unique is that they not only review books, movies and tv shows but they have necessary, powerful discussions about stereotypes, tropes and topics you may have not made yourself aware of until reading them on their Discussion, Analysis and Musings page. 

Their tagline- The latest in Urban Fantasy from a Social Justice Perspective. This is one of those diversity blogs that more people should know about!So we're happy to have the bloggers, who bring us these amazing reviews and discussions, on our blog today!






Thursday, January 16, 2014

Multiculturalism through social networking

Were not going to lie to you.

Three years ago, we despised social networking. Despite having a Twitter account, a Facebook account, a highly neglected Myspace account(does anyone even still use Myspace? => ) , for the most part, they were often unused. Created just to say we owned one. Overtime, we did get into Facebook. But to be honest, it's a bit like the "new" Myspace. It just tends to connect you with people you think you may know.

But Twitter? Tumblr? Pinterest? LinkedIn? There are so many, that at times it becomes difficult to keep track of the ones worth joining and the ones worth ignoring.

And then came Goodreads. Mind you, we didn't jump on Goodreads with it's start up. But it became our first online community that we became highly invested in.

Until Goodreads, we assumed diversity in books was just a myth. A desire that only WE wanted. Or, if we weren't the only ones, we were a small group. Not enough to band together to demand to see diverse images in the books were investing our money in.