The 'Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice' case strongly featured authors of color and many stories with queer content.
After a few months of intense criticism over a policy that allowed schools to remove diverse books, Scholastic has had a change of heart. The massive publishing company, well known for setting up book fairs in schools across the country, had recently put in a policy forcing schools to opt-into stocking books with “diverse voices”—namely books with queer content or written by people of color which address oppression and racism.
” Gorman, who is a Black woman and activist in addition to being a writer, has published children’s stories, one of which, Change Sings, was affected by this policy. io9 reviewed the “Share Every Story, Celebrate Every Voice” program as issued by Scholastic. It included many stories that were about famed civil rights figures, like John Lewis and Ruby Bridges, but it also included a lot of science fiction and fantasy stories that tackle topics of racism and oppression through a genre lens.
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