Hi guys!!!!
I have some pretty exciting news to share with you all today!
I am hosting my first ever reading challenge here at Chasing Faerytales for the year 2016!
My dear bookworms, let me introduce to you all, the 2016 Diverse Books Reading Challenge!!!
You all know how much I love diversity. And one of my main resolutions for 2016 is to read more diverse books, so I was looking for a reading challenge to keep me in track! And I was astonished to realise that there was no such challenge available, so why not host one myself? As I was thinking aloud on the lines, the lovely Shelly @ Read.Sleep.Repeat offered to co host if I did do it, so here are we, hosting the 2016 Diverse Reads Book Challenge!
The main objective of this challenge is to promote diverse books and help bloggers and readers who want to read more diversity in 2016!
The Rules
·
The Main
Character must be part of a diverse group*
Defined by We Need Diverse
Books: We recognize all diverse experiences, including (but
not limited to) LGBTQIA, people of color, gender
diversity, people with disabilities*, and ethnic, cultural, and
religious minorities.
*We subscribe to a broad definition
of disability, which includes but is not limited to physical, sensory,
cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities, chronic conditions, and
mental illnesses (this may also include addiction).
Furthermore, we subscribe to a social model of disability, which presents
disability as created by barriers in the social environment, due to lack
of equal access, stereotyping, and other forms of marginalization.
·
The
book can be set in a diverse setting, but not necessarily.
( But, note that books set in a
different country, but features a white MC won't be considered as diverse here.
Eg : Ink by Amanda Sun, Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins )
·
#Ownvoices
stories (stories
about marginalized groups written by a member of that marginalized group) are
widely encouraged as well! Promoting diverse books by diverse authors is
important.
·
If
the book is a fantasy it can be based on/inspired by a
diverse mythology or folklore
( E.g. The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee
Ahdieh)
·
If
the book is sci fi or dystopia, it has to be based on a
dystopian country that’s not USA.
( E.g. Cinder by Marissa Meyer)
·
Intersectionality is encouraged.
( Eg :- A book featuring a person of colour
with a disability )
·
The
novels don’t have to be YA, but as we are YA bloggers, those are probably the
novels we are more likely to read
The Logistics
·
This
challenge will run from the 1st of January 2016 to the 31st of December
2016.
·
You
can join in anytime you want.
·
This
challenge is meant to be a personal goal challenge to help find
more diverse novels and to read more diversely.
·
There
are no levels/points! You can read as much or as little as
you’d like, this is a personal goal and is mainly individualized
·
To join
the challenge, add your sign up post to the link up at the bottom of
the post. You can include your TBR for the challenge if
you want, but it’s not a requirement. Your sign up post can be a
separate post or a part of a giant list of all your 2016 reading challenges.
Anything is fine.
·
If
you don’t have a blog, you may use a twitter handle or instagram
profile and share this post with the hashtag #DiverseReads2016 that
you’re participating! But add that link to the sign up link below.
·
If
you want to share why you joined the challenge or why you want to read
more diverse books, you can tweet us using #Iwanttoreaddivesitybecause… and
we can discuss there. This is optional, just adding your blog to
the bottom of this post is enough for this requirement!
·
There
are themes for every couple of months, with different features
and posts for each month:
o
January
to March : Ethnic Diversity
o
April
to June : LGBTQIA +Diversity
o
July
to September : Religious Diversity
o
October
to December : Mental and physical health and disabilities.
·
But
this doesn’t mean that you have to only read books with the particular
theme of the season.Your selection of books can be your choice. This
is more of a fun way to help you categorize your reads, if you’d like.
·
We’ll
have a link up on our blogs by the end of each season,
where you can add your reviews of diverse books. We also welcome
you to post non review posts on diversity and diverse books
such as discussion posts, a list of recommendations etc., and you
can add such posts on the link up as well.
·
We
have a list of diverse novels here on this google docs. It’s on Read Only mode so
if you have recommendations, please tweet us!
·
Spread
the word! Share this challenge on twitter, instagram, pinterest or any social
media you want. Grab the banner and add it to your sidebar!
And if you have any questions or doubts regarding the challenge, and if you want to know whether a book will count for the challenge or not, feel free to tweet either one of us! I am @chasingfaes and Shelly is @shellysrambles
Create the sign up post, grab the hashtag #DiverseReads2016 and let's start reading in 2016! :D
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