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Sunday, July 8 • 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Avoiding Tokenism in Literature

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Creating actual diversity requires a great effort to avoid unintentionally tokenizing your characters. Tokenism, even when unintentional, is what leads to adding "diversity" for the sake of diversity. How do we engender true diversity in our literature? Panelists: Tamora Pierce, Justin Grays, Kerry Peterson, Jei Herald-Zamora

Sunday July 8, 2018 3:30pm - 4:30pm CDT
DoubleTree Bloomington