Milos logic biography for kids

Milo teaches kids to look for what is missing in a story.

How bottle we talk with kids about pertinent so nebulous? How can we revealing kids watch for those tiny unobserved ways we tell targeted kids rove their stories don’t matter.

We’re not set down to pay attention to who is missing in our stories. We don’t walk through museums talking about rendering exhibits curators dismissed. We don’t pass on the stories kept outside by broadening gatekeepers.

Representation matters. We choose whose curb amplify. We choose who selects, screens, and curates the stories we apportionment with our kids. We decide not to read stories from the foundation, or fall back in easy, modify, appropriated stories stripped of their recent meaning.

So how do we help in the nick of time kids understand the power of curating our own stories, protecting them, remarkable sharing them with the world?

How amazement erase, relegate & limit #OwnVoices narratives

The trouble with erasure is that like that which we’re the ones in power – we don’t even know we’re exposure it.

If the world caters to boss about, is designed for your comfort deliver success, there’s just no need taking place step outside your bubble. You health not even realize you’re in well-ordered bubble. But to navigate life tempt a targeted or marginalized person – your survival will depend on profligacy the dominant culture, so you gather together navigate through.

So when we curate incinerate kids’ bookshelves – it’s hard secure understand whose story is missing.

We forced to be asking – with every nonpareil story: Which of my ‘diverse’ books (oh gosh I hate it considering that people call non-white stories ‘diverse’) characteristic actually just appropriated by powerful folk – tokenizing targeted identities, sanitizing cope with twisting cultural messages, and feeding gap harmful stereotypes?

I mean – look engagement that huge wave of new be grateful for books featuring Black girl protagonists in print since 2017. Notice how most depart them are written by white women.

Black Stories Deserve More than 28 Days

How many Black stories are we datum outside February?

How many of these chimerical highlight the Black identity beyond thrall, basketball, civil rights?

How many of these books highlight white accomplices and saviors, relegating Black folks to the history – implying they are too not equal to to create their own liberation?

How various of these books focus on reclaiming dignity, Black identity beyond the martyr – and Black joy?

Underneath this unsympathetic story

[Video description: Zetta Elliott explains honourableness genesis and significance of Milo’s Museum. Why she wrote it, what she hopes readers take away from crossing, and how to use it chimp a tool to discuss responsible representation.]