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These books don’t “[consider] that the people reading them might themselves be disabled” or “that the perspective of an actual disabled person might differ from what a non-disabled author offers,” Duyvis said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/diversity-statistics-book-search/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cooperative Children’s Book Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at University of Wisconsin-Madison has analyzed the diversity of about 18,000 children’s books published in the U.S. between 2018 and 2022. Of the 975 books that had a disability theme or featured a significant character with a disability, 27% were by creators who publicly identified as disabled.*\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To counter this imbalance, Duyvis recommended that educators, librarians and parents seek out books by disabled people. Duyvis and two librarians talked with MindShift about what else educators and caregivers should look for when selecting children’s literature that represents disability and what conversations with kids about these books and about disabilities can look like. They also offered recommendations of inclusive, affirming books for kids from preschool to high school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Highlighting inclusivity and diversity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Often, when disability has been shown in the pages of children’s books, it has been through the experiences of white or male characters, according to Elizabeth Perez, a librarian at San Francisco Public Library’s Children’s Center. But Perez said that there is always room for more books from other perspectives. For example, she would love to see more disability representation in non-English language and bilingual kids’ literature. When publishers only elect to translate best sellers they “perpetuate a lack of inclusivity in publishing,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture books: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/21469042\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Three Best Friends And Me, Zulay\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Cari Best and Vanessa Brantley-Newton, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59811241\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Song In the City\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Daniel Bernstrom and Jenin Mohammed, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55333940\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bodies Are Cool\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Tyler Feder\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chapter book: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52376197-built-for-speed\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Built For Speed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Vicky Fang\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade:\u003c/span>\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20578939\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kinda Like Brothers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Coe Booth, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12352685\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wild Book\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Margarita Engle\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35120779-unbroken\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Marieke Nijkamp\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Countering misinformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability representation in kids’ literature can also educate readers about what living with a disability might look like or mean. These books help to counter misinformation, said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/juliaerin80\">Julia Torres\u003c/a>, a librarian, educator and activist. Educators should steer away from “disability warrior” and “trauma warrior” tropes, said Perez. Although trauma might be part of someone’s experience with a disability, Torres said, “We can center a type of children’s literature where the disability is a part of a person’s lived experience and identity, just as a cultural or ethnic or linguistic identity is part of the human experience.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture book: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52888945-sam-s-super-seats\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sam’s Super Seats\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Keah Brown and Sharee Miller\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chapter book: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62926958-a-to-z-animal-mysteries-1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A-Z Animal Mystery\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Kayla Whaley\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade:\u003c/span>\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55503534-rolling-warrior\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story Of A Rebel Girl On Wheels Who Helped Spark A Revolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult:\u003c/span>\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56905114-disability-visibility-adapted-for-young-adults\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Alice Wong\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Disability representation in fantasy books\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Perez, the fantasy genre is particularly lacking in disability representation. “People of all abilities can exist in any fantasy. We exist in real life. Why not in the fantasy world?” she asked. Duyvis pointed to her own novel, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40392203-the-art-of-saving-the-world\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Art of Saving the World\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, about a girl with an anxiety disorder who explores who she is through alternate universes, as an example of disability representation in fantasy. Another of Duyvis’ books, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22020598-on-the-edge-of-gone\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the Edge of Gone\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is about an autistic girl who must prove herself worthy of securing a seat on the last generation ship to leave an apocalyptic earth. Just because the character is autistic “Does that make her any less worthy of survival?” Duyvis asked. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36595887\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sal and Gabi Break the Universe\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Carlos Hernandez, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60343786-my-aunt-is-a-monster\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Aunt is a Monster\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Reimena Yee, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/series/264227-tea-dragon\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Tea Dragon series\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Kay O’Neill, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17349055\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Real Boy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> By Anne Ursu\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51135826\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Oracle Code\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Marieke Nijkamp\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Appreciating different experiences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability representation in children’s literature is for everybody. “Whether you’re disabled or not, you can appreciate a book with a character who is or is not disabled,” said Duyvis. A reader who is disabled might read a book with disability representation and recognize themselves, while a non-disabled reader might recognize disability as “a little more normal,” she added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers can foster \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57026/diversifying-your-classroom-book-collections-avoid-these-7-pitfalls\">affirming and enriching conversations\u003c/a> surrounding disability representation in children’s literature by asking: “What do you think of how other people in the book are reacting to the character?” If students are reading a book that includes an autistic character, the educator might ask them to think about what a singular character represents and explain that it “doesn’t necessarily mean that this is what any or all autistic people are actually like,” said Duyvis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students are encounter books that don’t represent disability in an inclusive or affirming way, Duyvis encouraged educators to promote critical thinking by having students ask themselves, “Can I necessarily trust what I read to be true?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres recommended avoiding language like, “How did the person survive or thrive despite their disability?” Framing a disabled person’s existence “in spite” of their disability, can suggest that the person’s disability takes away from the value of their life. Torres said it might be helpful to ask these questions using affirming language instead:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What did you learn about living with this particular disability?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What are some misconceptions that you have unlearned?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you were to uplift things about the character what would those be?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students have discussions about differences or disability representation in children’s literature, Perez likes to use the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61018/want-kids-to-love-reading-authors-grace-lin-and-kate-messner-share-how-to-find-wonder-in-books\">“mirrors and windows” approach\u003c/a>. Students should see themselves, the mirror, but should also see others represented in what they read, the window. This can help to eliminate isolation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having these discussions in the classroom is not about garnering sympathy, said Torres. Rather, “it would feel beautiful not to have to explain.” Being open minded is the crux of disability inclusion and representation in kids’ literature. “Don’t limit an audience based on who the main character is,” said Duyvis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture books: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57094674\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My City Speaks\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Darren Lebeuf and Ashley Barron, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60444469\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Life of Service: The Story of Senator Tammy Duckworth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Christina Soontornvat and Dow Phumiruk, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58556601\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, A Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Shannon Stocker\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20912424\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The War That Saved My Life\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26201816-el-deafo\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">El Deafo\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Cece Bell\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/33803157\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Kelly Jensen\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">*Editor’s note: Independent analysis of data accessed on July 14, 2023 by KQED MindShift using the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/diversity-statistics-book-search/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison Diversity Statistics Book Search\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. CCBC researches whether the creator of a book identifies as disabled if a book contains disabled characters or disability themes; it does not collect this data for all books it receives.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Corrine Duyvis, Julia Torres and Elizabeth Perez recommend children's books with affirming disability representation and advice for how to discuss these books with students.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1691442906,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1259},"headData":{"title":"Choosing children's books that include and affirm disability experiences | KQED","description":"Find recommendations for children's books with disability representation and advice for discussing such books with students.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"Find recommendations for children's books with disability representation and advice for discussing such books with students.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Choosing children's books that include and affirm disability experiences","datePublished":"2023-07-25T01:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2023-08-07T21:15:06.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/62049/choosing-childrens-books-that-include-and-affirm-disability-experiences","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When it comes to disability representation in children’s literature, historically, books have been authored by non-disabled people and for non-disabled people, according to award-winning author \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/corinneduyvis\">Corinne Duyvis\u003c/a>. These books don’t “[consider] that the people reading them might themselves be disabled” or “that the perspective of an actual disabled person might differ from what a non-disabled author offers,” Duyvis said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/diversity-statistics-book-search/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cooperative Children’s Book Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at University of Wisconsin-Madison has analyzed the diversity of about 18,000 children’s books published in the U.S. between 2018 and 2022. Of the 975 books that had a disability theme or featured a significant character with a disability, 27% were by creators who publicly identified as disabled.*\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To counter this imbalance, Duyvis recommended that educators, librarians and parents seek out books by disabled people. Duyvis and two librarians talked with MindShift about what else educators and caregivers should look for when selecting children’s literature that represents disability and what conversations with kids about these books and about disabilities can look like. They also offered recommendations of inclusive, affirming books for kids from preschool to high school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Highlighting inclusivity and diversity\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Often, when disability has been shown in the pages of children’s books, it has been through the experiences of white or male characters, according to Elizabeth Perez, a librarian at San Francisco Public Library’s Children’s Center. But Perez said that there is always room for more books from other perspectives. For example, she would love to see more disability representation in non-English language and bilingual kids’ literature. When publishers only elect to translate best sellers they “perpetuate a lack of inclusivity in publishing,” she said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture books: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/21469042\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Three Best Friends And Me, Zulay\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Cari Best and Vanessa Brantley-Newton, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59811241\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Song In the City\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Daniel Bernstrom and Jenin Mohammed, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55333940\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bodies Are Cool\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Tyler Feder\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chapter book: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52376197-built-for-speed\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Built For Speed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Vicky Fang\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade:\u003c/span>\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20578939\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kinda Like Brothers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Coe Booth, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12352685\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Wild Book\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Margarita Engle\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35120779-unbroken\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Marieke Nijkamp\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Countering misinformation\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability representation in kids’ literature can also educate readers about what living with a disability might look like or mean. These books help to counter misinformation, said \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/juliaerin80\">Julia Torres\u003c/a>, a librarian, educator and activist. Educators should steer away from “disability warrior” and “trauma warrior” tropes, said Perez. Although trauma might be part of someone’s experience with a disability, Torres said, “We can center a type of children’s literature where the disability is a part of a person’s lived experience and identity, just as a cultural or ethnic or linguistic identity is part of the human experience.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture book: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52888945-sam-s-super-seats\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sam’s Super Seats\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Keah Brown and Sharee Miller\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chapter book: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62926958-a-to-z-animal-mysteries-1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A-Z Animal Mystery\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Kayla Whaley\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade:\u003c/span>\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55503534-rolling-warrior\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story Of A Rebel Girl On Wheels Who Helped Spark A Revolution\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult:\u003c/span>\u003c/i> \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56905114-disability-visibility-adapted-for-young-adults\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Alice Wong\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Disability representation in fantasy books\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Perez, the fantasy genre is particularly lacking in disability representation. “People of all abilities can exist in any fantasy. We exist in real life. Why not in the fantasy world?” she asked. Duyvis pointed to her own novel, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40392203-the-art-of-saving-the-world\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Art of Saving the World\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, about a girl with an anxiety disorder who explores who she is through alternate universes, as an example of disability representation in fantasy. Another of Duyvis’ books, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22020598-on-the-edge-of-gone\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the Edge of Gone\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is about an autistic girl who must prove herself worthy of securing a seat on the last generation ship to leave an apocalyptic earth. Just because the character is autistic “Does that make her any less worthy of survival?” Duyvis asked. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36595887\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sal and Gabi Break the Universe\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Carlos Hernandez, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60343786-my-aunt-is-a-monster\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My Aunt is a Monster\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Reimena Yee, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/series/264227-tea-dragon\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Tea Dragon series\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Kay O’Neill, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17349055\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Real Boy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> By Anne Ursu\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51135826\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Oracle Code\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Marieke Nijkamp\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Appreciating different experiences\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability representation in children’s literature is for everybody. “Whether you’re disabled or not, you can appreciate a book with a character who is or is not disabled,” said Duyvis. A reader who is disabled might read a book with disability representation and recognize themselves, while a non-disabled reader might recognize disability as “a little more normal,” she added. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teachers can foster \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/57026/diversifying-your-classroom-book-collections-avoid-these-7-pitfalls\">affirming and enriching conversations\u003c/a> surrounding disability representation in children’s literature by asking: “What do you think of how other people in the book are reacting to the character?” If students are reading a book that includes an autistic character, the educator might ask them to think about what a singular character represents and explain that it “doesn’t necessarily mean that this is what any or all autistic people are actually like,” said Duyvis. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students are encounter books that don’t represent disability in an inclusive or affirming way, Duyvis encouraged educators to promote critical thinking by having students ask themselves, “Can I necessarily trust what I read to be true?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Torres recommended avoiding language like, “How did the person survive or thrive despite their disability?” Framing a disabled person’s existence “in spite” of their disability, can suggest that the person’s disability takes away from the value of their life. Torres said it might be helpful to ask these questions using affirming language instead:\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What did you learn about living with this particular disability?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What are some misconceptions that you have unlearned?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you were to uplift things about the character what would those be?\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students have discussions about differences or disability representation in children’s literature, Perez likes to use the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61018/want-kids-to-love-reading-authors-grace-lin-and-kate-messner-share-how-to-find-wonder-in-books\">“mirrors and windows” approach\u003c/a>. Students should see themselves, the mirror, but should also see others represented in what they read, the window. This can help to eliminate isolation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Having these discussions in the classroom is not about garnering sympathy, said Torres. Rather, “it would feel beautiful not to have to explain.” Being open minded is the crux of disability inclusion and representation in kids’ literature. “Don’t limit an audience based on who the main character is,” said Duyvis.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Picture books: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57094674\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My City Speaks\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Darren Lebeuf and Ashley Barron, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60444469\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Life of Service: The Story of Senator Tammy Duckworth\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Christina Soontornvat and Dow Phumiruk, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/58556601\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, A Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Shannon Stocker\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Middle grade: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20912424\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The War That Saved My Life\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26201816-el-deafo\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">El Deafo\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Cece Bell\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Young adult: \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/33803157\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start The Conversation About Mental Health\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, edited by Kelly Jensen\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">*Editor’s note: Independent analysis of data accessed on July 14, 2023 by KQED MindShift using the \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/diversity-statistics-book-search/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC), School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison Diversity Statistics Book Search\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. CCBC researches whether the creator of a book identifies as disabled if a book contains disabled characters or disability themes; it does not collect this data for all books it receives.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/62049/choosing-childrens-books-that-include-and-affirm-disability-experiences","authors":["11759"],"categories":["mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_20997","mindshift_21722","mindshift_21717","mindshift_21718","mindshift_20610","mindshift_21719","mindshift_21721","mindshift_21720","mindshift_21423","mindshift_550","mindshift_21397","mindshift_21158"],"featImg":"mindshift_62054","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_60713":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_60713","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"60713","score":null,"sort":[1672236283000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"banned-books-newbery-medalist-jerry-craft-on-creating-possibilities-for-kids-in-stories","title":"Banned Books: Newbery Medalist Jerry Craft on creating possibilities for kids in stories","publishDate":1672236283,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This discussion with Jerry Craft is part of a series of interviews with — and \u003c/em>\u003cem>essays\u003c/em>\u003cem> by — authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-60714 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/new-kid-jerry-craft_custom-ab9856b74471dd3a6970ded335f28e42c9d04cbf-160x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/new-kid-jerry-craft_custom-ab9856b74471dd3a6970ded335f28e42c9d04cbf-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/new-kid-jerry-craft_custom-ab9856b74471dd3a6970ded335f28e42c9d04cbf-800x1199.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/new-kid-jerry-craft_custom-ab9856b74471dd3a6970ded335f28e42c9d04cbf-1020x1529.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/new-kid-jerry-craft_custom-ab9856b74471dd3a6970ded335f28e42c9d04cbf-768x1151.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/new-kid-jerry-craft_custom-ab9856b74471dd3a6970ded335f28e42c9d04cbf-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/new-kid-jerry-craft_custom-ab9856b74471dd3a6970ded335f28e42c9d04cbf-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/new-kid-jerry-craft_custom-ab9856b74471dd3a6970ded335f28e42c9d04cbf.jpg 1598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cartoonist and children's book author Jerry Craft published the Newbery award-winning graphic novel \u003cem>New Kid \u003c/em>in 2019\u003cem>. New Kid \u003c/em>also won the Coretta Scott King Author Award and the Kirkus Prize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craft followed the book with\u003cem> Class Act\u003c/em> in 2020 and, coming in April 2023, \u003cem>School Trip. \u003c/em>His novels focus on portraying the experiences of kids of color. Craft's work allows kids to see themselves in stories, provoking inspiration and giving voice to diverse experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>New Kid \u003c/em>focuses on the experience of being Black and the \"new kid\" at a predominantly white school. It follows Jordan, a seventh grader and aspiring artist from Washington Heights, New York. Jordan's parents send him to a private school to invest in his academic future. As he navigates the differing environments in his neighborhood and his new school, he attempts to stay true to himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-school-district-pulls-books-acclaimed-children-s-author-n1280956\">has been challenged\u003c/a> in some school districts including in Texas and Pennsylvania, citing the teaching of critical race theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview below has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On capturing reality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my opinion, a lot of the books with African American protagonists ... there's this really big thing that happens — a life changing event, catastrophic, death or police or someone goes to jail or drugs — and I didn't want to show that. So there is no catastrophe in \u003cem>New Kid\u003c/em>, but it's just kind of the day-to-day code switching you get so used to at an early age. My dad lived in the time where they had white drinking fountains and Black drinking fountains. So, I'm only one generation removed from that. He didn't expect anything... So when you think of the things that our ancestors had to deal with and even stuff that my dad [dealt with], having someone call you the wrong name or touch your hair — it's not catastrophic by nature. It's annoying. I really did want to have a book where you could read it and relax and just kind of subtly point out things that we can all do to improve how these kids grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On inspiring Black kids by depicting positive new narratives \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You're trained in a lot of ways to be a second class citizen. Even taking my sons to the movies, whereas their white counterparts — if they wanted to see someone that looked like them — their parents took them to see \u003cem>Harry Potter\u003c/em> and, you know, \u003cem>Percy Jackson. \u003c/em>Our version was \u003cem>12 Years a Slave\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Harriet Tubman\u003c/em>... There just aren't a lot of happy stories. Even when I was a kid, the show \u003cem>Good Times\u003c/em> was very popular. But for a show called \"good times,\" they never really had any good times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... I have a teacher who emailed me [about how] all the kids were going around saying what they wanted to do when they grow up [and] a Black kid in class goes, \"Well, if I live to be 18, I hope to... \" So, I wanted to have a book where there is hope. In \u003cem>School Trip\u003c/em>, which comes out in April, the kids go to Paris. And I'm already reading some early reviews [about how people] love the book...but occasionally someone will go \"well I don't think the kids will be able to relate going to Paris... But [a] kid could relate to being a wizard like Harry Potter or going into space or going back in time or any of the other fantasy things. But a Black kid won't be able to relate to going to another country... If I wrote about a dystopian future where a 13-year-old white kid saves the world single handedly, that's relatable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, when I do new kid in class, not only am I doing this for kids to show that they do have hope and futures — but I also want to point out to parents and some of the teachers and librarians who put these emotional and mental shackles on their kids [thinking] 'I'm not even going to give them this book because [they'll] never be able to relate to going to Paris.' ...Why can't a kid have those kinds of aspirations where one day they're like, 'Oh, wow, I'd like to go there like Jordan Banks did' as opposed to, 'Hey, here's another gang book.' So what? I can relate to that, I can relate to being in a gang. I can relate to being enslaved... but it's such a discrepancy. ...They give them all these hard stories and then they forget that they're kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On representation in children and young adult books\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I do these [school visits] on zoom or in person, it's about me being a very reluctant reader. I hated reading books as a kid because — who were my heroes? The Black kid in Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn? There was no kid who looked like me that I was proud of. It was \u003cem>Black Panther ... \u003c/em>which came out, what, five years ago, that was the first time where I had goosebumps. That and \u003cem>Into the Spider-verse\u003c/em>. I felt like I was 10 years old. What I would have given to have something like that when I was ten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the big problems that I have is... [people saying], 'oh, well... you're making white kids feel bad.' A lot of these books — especially historical books — you'll have a book like Ruby Bridges, or stories where these 8-year-old kids are single-handedly integrating the school systems and there are people throwing stuff or cursing: So, those kids can handle that — but your little kid can't handle reading about that because it makes them feel bad? And I think most times kids empathize with the main characters. I don't think that kids ever empathize with the bullies. And if they do, I don't think that you're doing your job as a parent properly. Because when I read a graphic novel like \u003cem>El Deafo \u003c/em>by Cece Bell, which is amazing, or \u003cem>Hey, Kiddo, \u003c/em>Jarrett J. Krosoczka's book — these are all kids who are teased because they're different. And again, if you raise your kid to not be able to have empathy for the one who's the target of the bullies ... I have white kids dressing up like Jordan Banks and Drew for Halloween. It's one of their favorite characters, kids don't emulate the bad guys. And if they do, like I said, you might have missed a couple of parenting sessions that you probably should put in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On who decides what is appropriate reading\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm a parent... I do think that, as a parent, you have every right to decide what your kid can and cannot read... But you don't have the right to tell me what my kid can read. Because a lot of time kids will find themselves in books. They may not even be able to have [certain] discussions at home. I don't know what it's like at 12 years old to realize that I'm gay and I want to come out to my parents who are going to hate me and disown me because of that. But there are books with those characters that kids can find out that they're not the only ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Claire Murashima produced the broadcast version of this story. Meghan Collins Sullivan edited this story for the web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Banned+Books%3A+Author+Jerry+Craft+on+telling+stories+all+kids+can+identify+with&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Jerry Craft published the Newbery award-winning graphic novel \u003cem>New Kid \u003c/em>in 2019\u003cem>. \u003c/em>The novel\u003cem> \u003c/em>focuses on the experience of being Black and the \"new kid\" at a predominantly white school.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1672258001,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1324},"headData":{"title":"Banned Books: Newbery Medalist Jerry Craft on creating possibilities for kids in stories - MindShift","description":"Jerry Craft published the Newbery award-winning graphic novel "New Kid" in 2019. 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New Kid \u003c/em>also won the Coretta Scott King Author Award and the Kirkus Prize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craft followed the book with\u003cem> Class Act\u003c/em> in 2020 and, coming in April 2023, \u003cem>School Trip. \u003c/em>His novels focus on portraying the experiences of kids of color. Craft's work allows kids to see themselves in stories, provoking inspiration and giving voice to diverse experiences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>New Kid \u003c/em>focuses on the experience of being Black and the \"new kid\" at a predominantly white school. It follows Jordan, a seventh grader and aspiring artist from Washington Heights, New York. Jordan's parents send him to a private school to invest in his academic future. As he navigates the differing environments in his neighborhood and his new school, he attempts to stay true to himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-school-district-pulls-books-acclaimed-children-s-author-n1280956\">has been challenged\u003c/a> in some school districts including in Texas and Pennsylvania, citing the teaching of critical race theory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview below has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On capturing reality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my opinion, a lot of the books with African American protagonists ... there's this really big thing that happens — a life changing event, catastrophic, death or police or someone goes to jail or drugs — and I didn't want to show that. So there is no catastrophe in \u003cem>New Kid\u003c/em>, but it's just kind of the day-to-day code switching you get so used to at an early age. My dad lived in the time where they had white drinking fountains and Black drinking fountains. So, I'm only one generation removed from that. He didn't expect anything... So when you think of the things that our ancestors had to deal with and even stuff that my dad [dealt with], having someone call you the wrong name or touch your hair — it's not catastrophic by nature. It's annoying. I really did want to have a book where you could read it and relax and just kind of subtly point out things that we can all do to improve how these kids grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On inspiring Black kids by depicting positive new narratives \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You're trained in a lot of ways to be a second class citizen. Even taking my sons to the movies, whereas their white counterparts — if they wanted to see someone that looked like them — their parents took them to see \u003cem>Harry Potter\u003c/em> and, you know, \u003cem>Percy Jackson. \u003c/em>Our version was \u003cem>12 Years a Slave\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Harriet Tubman\u003c/em>... There just aren't a lot of happy stories. Even when I was a kid, the show \u003cem>Good Times\u003c/em> was very popular. But for a show called \"good times,\" they never really had any good times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... I have a teacher who emailed me [about how] all the kids were going around saying what they wanted to do when they grow up [and] a Black kid in class goes, \"Well, if I live to be 18, I hope to... \" So, I wanted to have a book where there is hope. In \u003cem>School Trip\u003c/em>, which comes out in April, the kids go to Paris. And I'm already reading some early reviews [about how people] love the book...but occasionally someone will go \"well I don't think the kids will be able to relate going to Paris... But [a] kid could relate to being a wizard like Harry Potter or going into space or going back in time or any of the other fantasy things. But a Black kid won't be able to relate to going to another country... If I wrote about a dystopian future where a 13-year-old white kid saves the world single handedly, that's relatable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, when I do new kid in class, not only am I doing this for kids to show that they do have hope and futures — but I also want to point out to parents and some of the teachers and librarians who put these emotional and mental shackles on their kids [thinking] 'I'm not even going to give them this book because [they'll] never be able to relate to going to Paris.' ...Why can't a kid have those kinds of aspirations where one day they're like, 'Oh, wow, I'd like to go there like Jordan Banks did' as opposed to, 'Hey, here's another gang book.' So what? I can relate to that, I can relate to being in a gang. I can relate to being enslaved... but it's such a discrepancy. ...They give them all these hard stories and then they forget that they're kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On representation in children and young adult books\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I do these [school visits] on zoom or in person, it's about me being a very reluctant reader. I hated reading books as a kid because — who were my heroes? The Black kid in Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn? There was no kid who looked like me that I was proud of. It was \u003cem>Black Panther ... \u003c/em>which came out, what, five years ago, that was the first time where I had goosebumps. That and \u003cem>Into the Spider-verse\u003c/em>. I felt like I was 10 years old. What I would have given to have something like that when I was ten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one of the big problems that I have is... [people saying], 'oh, well... you're making white kids feel bad.' A lot of these books — especially historical books — you'll have a book like Ruby Bridges, or stories where these 8-year-old kids are single-handedly integrating the school systems and there are people throwing stuff or cursing: So, those kids can handle that — but your little kid can't handle reading about that because it makes them feel bad? And I think most times kids empathize with the main characters. I don't think that kids ever empathize with the bullies. And if they do, I don't think that you're doing your job as a parent properly. Because when I read a graphic novel like \u003cem>El Deafo \u003c/em>by Cece Bell, which is amazing, or \u003cem>Hey, Kiddo, \u003c/em>Jarrett J. Krosoczka's book — these are all kids who are teased because they're different. And again, if you raise your kid to not be able to have empathy for the one who's the target of the bullies ... I have white kids dressing up like Jordan Banks and Drew for Halloween. It's one of their favorite characters, kids don't emulate the bad guys. And if they do, like I said, you might have missed a couple of parenting sessions that you probably should put in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On who decides what is appropriate reading\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm a parent... I do think that, as a parent, you have every right to decide what your kid can and cannot read... But you don't have the right to tell me what my kid can read. Because a lot of time kids will find themselves in books. They may not even be able to have [certain] discussions at home. I don't know what it's like at 12 years old to realize that I'm gay and I want to come out to my parents who are going to hate me and disown me because of that. But there are books with those characters that kids can find out that they're not the only ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Claire Murashima produced the broadcast version of this story. Meghan Collins Sullivan edited this story for the web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Banned+Books%3A+Author+Jerry+Craft+on+telling+stories+all+kids+can+identify+with&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/60713/banned-books-newbery-medalist-jerry-craft-on-creating-possibilities-for-kids-in-stories","authors":["byline_mindshift_60713"],"categories":["mindshift_21014"],"tags":["mindshift_21516","mindshift_20997","mindshift_21392","mindshift_21514","mindshift_21422","mindshift_21515","mindshift_21397","mindshift_21158"],"featImg":"mindshift_60718","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_60624":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_60624","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"60624","score":null,"sort":[1671534019000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"young-adults-are-struggling-with-their-mental-health-is-more-childhood-independence-the-answer","title":"Young adults are struggling with their mental health. Is more childhood independence the answer? ","publishDate":1671534019,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Young adults are struggling with their mental health. Is more childhood independence the answer? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assistant professor Brett Mallon begins his evening Zoom session at Kansas State University with a question: When students hear the word “conflict,” what associations do they make? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many first responses are decidedly negative. “I would say, avoid it at all costs,” one student offers. “Argument, awkward conversations,” says another. The list grows as students make emotional associations they have with conflict: stress, discomfort, war. Only one student suggests that he thinks of conflict as “an opportunity for growth.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is Conflict Resolution, a non-credit workshop in an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.k-state.edu/lafene/programs/wellcat-ambassadors/events.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Adulting 101”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> series at Kansas State. The cheeky name, created by the campus wellness center, belies its serious purpose: to fill in the gaps of missing life skills for students with classes that range from the practical, like how to make a budget, to the relational, like dealing with imposter syndrome. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Students talk about conflict like it’s this terrible thing,” Mallon said in an interview. “Is it that they’re afraid of [conflict], or are they lacking in experience? Probably a little bit of both.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seminars and classes like “Adulting 101” are becoming more common on college campuses. Though ranging in style and substance — from one-offs on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.k12dive.com/news/adulting-courses-teach-students-life-skills-from-paying-taxes-to-managin/579783/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">handling stress\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to full-semester \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/learning/what-do-you-think-are-the-secrets-to-happiness.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">psychology courses on how to be happy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — more universities are offering help to students \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jedfoundation.org/first-year-college-experience-data-report-for-media-release-pdf/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">struggling with the stresses of everyday life\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and mental health challenges like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/10/mental-health-campus-care\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">anxiety and depression\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But a growing body of evidence is beginning to suggest that the problems of “adulting” and mental health in college students may be rooted, at least in part, in modern childhood. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acer.org/files/Infographic_YCDI-ACER_Wellbeing_2003-2017.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research shows\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that young people are lacking in emotional resilience and independence compared to previous generations. The problem has been growing in tandem with rising rates of anxiety and depression, perhaps exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and has left colleges scrambling to help and adapt.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Some parents have been parenting differently, they have this value of success at all costs,” said Dori Hutchinson, executive director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University. “I like to describe it as some kids are growing up developmentally delayed, today’s 18-year-olds are like 12-year-olds from a decade ago. They have very little tolerance for conflict and discomfort, and COVID just exposed it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How modern childhood changed, and changed mental health\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0034355213480527\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research shows\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that young people who arrive on campus with healthy amounts of resilience and independence do better both academically and emotionally, but today more students of all backgrounds are arriving on campus \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201509/declining-student-resilience-serious-problem-colleges\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">with significantly less experience\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in dealing with life’s ups and downs. Many even see normal adult activities as risky or dangerous.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a new study currently under review, Georgetown University psychologist \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RWyJAAW/yulia-chentsova-dutton\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yulia Chentsova Dutton\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> looked at whether American college students’ threshold for what is considered risky was comparable to their global peers. Chentsova Dutton and her team interviewed students from Turkey, Russia, Canada and the United States, asking them to describe a risky or dangerous experience they had in the last month. Both Turkish and Russian students described witnessing events that involved actual risk: violent fights on public transportation; hazardous driving conditions caused by drunk drivers; women being aggressively followed on the street. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But American students were far more likely to cite as dangerous things that most adults do every day, like being alone outside or riding alone in an Uber.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The American students’ risk threshold was comparatively “quite low,” according to Chentsova Dutton. Students who reported they gained independence later in childhood — going to the grocery store or riding public transportation alone, for example — viewed their university campus as more dangerous; those same students also had fewer positive emotions when describing risky situations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chentsova Dutton hypothesizes that when students have fewer opportunities to practice autonomy, they have less faith in themselves that they can figure out a risky situation. “My suspicion is that low autonomy seems to translate into low efficacy,” she said. “Low efficacy and a combination of stress is associated with distress,” like anxiety and depression.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent years, other psychologists have made similar associations. Author and New York University ethical leadership professor Jonathan Haidt has used Nassim Taleb’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=nassim+taleb+antifragile&oq=nassim+taleb+anti&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j69i57j0i512l5j0i22i30l3.3422j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:af34c28b,vid:k4MhC5tcEv0\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">theory of anti-fragility\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to explain how kids’ social and emotional systems act much like our bones and immune systems: Within reason, testing and stressing them doesn’t break them but makes them stronger. But, Haidt and first amendment advocate Greg Lukianoff have argued \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thecoddling.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in their writing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a strong culture of “safetyism” which prizes the safety of children above all else, has prevented young people from putting stress on the bones, so to speak, so “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/10/by-mollycoddling-our-children-were-fuelling-mental-illness-in-teenagers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">such children are\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> likely to suffer more when exposed later to other unpleasant but ordinary life events.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/135584/ss20194.pdf?sequence=1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Psychologists have directly connected\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a lack of resilience and independence to the growth of mental health problems and psychiatric disorders in young adults and say that short cycles of stress or conflict are not only \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">not harmful\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, they are essential to human development. But modern childhood, for a variety of reasons, provides few opportunities for kids to practice those skills. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it’s hard to point to a single cause, experts say a confluence of factors — including more time spent on smartphones and social media, less time for free play, a culture that prizes safety at the expense of building other characteristics, a fear of child kidnapping, and more adult-directed activities — together have created a culture that keeps kids far away from the kinds of experiences that build resilience.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chentsova Dutton said America has an international reputation for prizing autonomy, but her study opened her eyes to a more complicated picture. American parents \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429261633-9/growing-gaps-enacted-ideational-independence-yulia-chentsova-dutton-derya-g%C3%BCrcan-y%C4%B1ld%C4%B1r%C4%B1m\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">tend to be overprotective\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> when children are young, acting as if kids are going to live at home for a long time, like parents do in Italy. Yet they also expect children to live away from home fairly early for college, like families do in Germany. The result is that American kids end up with drastically fewer years navigating real life than they do in other countries that start much earlier. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We parent like we are in Italy, then send kids away like we are in Germany,” Chentsova Dutton said with a laugh. “Those things don’t match.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A movement hopes to change the culture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seventeen-year-old Megan Miller, a senior at Hudson High School in Hudson, Ohio, recently drove her two siblings, ages 15 and 12, to Cedar Point Amusement Park for an evening of fun. Miller was nervous. She’d never driven an hour and a half away from home by herself before, especially in the dark — but she had to do it; it was homework for school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The assignment was to try something she’d never done before \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">without\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> her parents’, or anyone else’s, help. Other students figured out how to put air in their tires, cooked a meal for their family from start to finish and drove on the interstate. The point, Miller’s teacher Martin Bach said, was to give these young adults — many of whom would be living away from home in less than a year — experience with trying, failing and figuring something out on their own. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was seeing that student stress and anxiety levels were already bad, then COVID supercharged it,” Bach said. But a pattern of parents “swooping in to solve problems that kids could easily solve on their own” made Bach decide to create the unit on resilience and independence. “In my head I’m thinking, these kids are going off to college, how are they going to cope?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bach got the idea for the “do something new on your own” assignment from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://letgrow.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA-JacBhC0ARIsAIxybyNZrXvL74UGnKQ8_v85bXjdblqfcUvyM6C-Lw4EXJ5Hl8vTVFLIKLoaAot4EALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let Grow\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a national nonprofit promoting greater childhood independence. Let Grow offers free curriculum, aimed mostly at elementary and middle school students, that feels like it’s giving 21st century childhood a hard reset — like “play club,” in which children are allowed to play on school playgrounds without adult interference, and the “think for yourself essay contest.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let Grow is part of a growing movement of psychologists, therapists and educators advocating for evidence-based practices to help kids gain more independence and improve mental health. Let Grow’s co-founder, Lenore Skenazy, said that after traveling for years speaking to parent and school groups about the problem of shrinking childhood independence, she decided that families needed more than a lecture. “The audience would nod along, everybody gets it. But they wouldn’t let their own kids do it,” she said. Skenazy began to understand that the anxiety around child safety was not necessarily parents’ fault — the culture surrounding families almost fetishized child danger. Many parents felt they would be judged — \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-son-park\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">or arrested\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — if they let their child walk to the park by themselves, or walk to the store. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Skenazy moved the organization toward behavior and policy change to address the cultural issues. Along with the independence curriculum for schools, Let Grow has helped four states enact \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://letgrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/model-laws-one-thru-four-june-30-2021.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Reasonable Childhood Independence”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> laws aimed at protecting parents from neglect charges. Let Grow also speaks directly to parents and teachers about letting kids try things by themselves — and being surprised by what their kids are able to do. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like Megan Miller, whose trip to Cedar Point was thrilling yet also had bumps along the way. They got a little lost inside the park, and the siblings had a disagreement over which roller coasters to ride. On the way there, even with navigation on her phone, she took a wrong turn and ended up on an unfamiliar road. But that road wound alongside scenic Lake Erie, which she’d never been on. “It ended up being this beautiful drive that I will definitely do every single time,” Miller said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the trip, Miller’s parents have noticed a change, she said. “I find that I’m much more comfortable driving on highways and for long periods of time. My parents know now that I can do it, which helps a lot.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A road forward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More researchers, psychologists and educators are looking to find more ways to incorporate independence skills into kids’ daily lives. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clinical psychologist Camilo Ortiz, a professor at Long Island University-Post, began noticing a few years ago that some of his young patients, mostly children being treated for anxiety, would “fold very quickly” at the first sign of adversity. Ortiz uses what he calls the “four Ds” to explain what was happening: Today’s kids experienced less “discomfort, distress, disappointment and danger” than previous generations did, because their parents, who have the best intentions, deprive them of these opportunities. He began to wonder whether kids who didn’t get much of the four Ds were missing an important opportunity to be uncomfortable and then persist — and whether they might help clinically anxious children. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beginning last year, Ortiz began a pilot treatment program for childhood clinical anxiety that is based on independence and “getting parents out of their hair.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is not a traditional anxiety treatment,” he said. “My approach is something like: So you’re afraid of the dark? Go to the deli and buy me some salami.” A lot of anxiety is based in fear of the unknown, so the treatment involves having an experience full of uncertainty, like riding the subway alone or going to the grocery alone. If the child can tolerate the discomfort in that situation, Ortiz hypothesized that those lessons might translate to whatever is causing the child anxiety.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Early results are promising: the independence exercises have been successful in quelling anxiety for some children. “The new approach that I have developed is for middle school kids,” he said. “So by the time they’re college students, they’ve gotten a lot more practice with those four Ds.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other groups help build resilience in students in academic settings, like the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.alvordbaker.com/rbp/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Resilience Builder Program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which aims to help students think more flexibly, be proactive in the face of challenges and learn optimistic thinking. The program’s creator, Mary Alvord, said the protective factors taught to middle schoolers are based on decades of research on childhood resilience. “It’s about being proactive and not feeling like you’re a victim, how you can control some things, but you can’t control everything,” she said. “How can you make the best of it, and if you can’t — how do you ask for help?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Experts say independence and autonomy are best formed and tested in childhood, but it’s never too late to begin. At the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, Hutchinson and her team help college students diagnosed with mental illness continue their education and reach their goals, and that often begins with building their resilience and independence skills. The center has developed a curriculum that is focused not just on students, but parents and faculty as well. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Families are a player at the table,” Hutchinson said. Parents benefit from coaching that shows them how to support their student without “doing for” them. Parents sometimes don’t understand that protecting their child from failure and difficulty can be an obstacle to growth. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“When we are controlling a young adult’s experiences, and they go without that full range of emotional experience,” said the center’s Director for Strategic Initiatives Courtney Joly-Lowdermilk, “we’re actually curbing people’s opportunities to live full lives, and have the full range of human experience.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1707343381,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":36,"wordCount":2396},"headData":{"title":"Young adults are struggling with their mental health. Is more childhood independence the answer? | KQED","description":"New research suggests improving college mental health may be helped by reshaping modern childhood.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"New research suggests improving college mental health may be helped by reshaping modern childhood.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"Article","headline":"Young adults are struggling with their mental health. Is more childhood independence the answer? ","datePublished":"2022-12-20T11:00:19.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-07T22:03:01.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/mindshift/60624/young-adults-are-struggling-with-their-mental-health-is-more-childhood-independence-the-answer","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Assistant professor Brett Mallon begins his evening Zoom session at Kansas State University with a question: When students hear the word “conflict,” what associations do they make? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many first responses are decidedly negative. “I would say, avoid it at all costs,” one student offers. “Argument, awkward conversations,” says another. The list grows as students make emotional associations they have with conflict: stress, discomfort, war. Only one student suggests that he thinks of conflict as “an opportunity for growth.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is Conflict Resolution, a non-credit workshop in an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.k-state.edu/lafene/programs/wellcat-ambassadors/events.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Adulting 101”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> series at Kansas State. The cheeky name, created by the campus wellness center, belies its serious purpose: to fill in the gaps of missing life skills for students with classes that range from the practical, like how to make a budget, to the relational, like dealing with imposter syndrome. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Students talk about conflict like it’s this terrible thing,” Mallon said in an interview. “Is it that they’re afraid of [conflict], or are they lacking in experience? Probably a little bit of both.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seminars and classes like “Adulting 101” are becoming more common on college campuses. Though ranging in style and substance — from one-offs on \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.k12dive.com/news/adulting-courses-teach-students-life-skills-from-paying-taxes-to-managin/579783/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">handling stress\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to full-semester \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/learning/what-do-you-think-are-the-secrets-to-happiness.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">psychology courses on how to be happy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — more universities are offering help to students \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.jedfoundation.org/first-year-college-experience-data-report-for-media-release-pdf/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">struggling with the stresses of everyday life\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and mental health challenges like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/10/mental-health-campus-care\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">anxiety and depression\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But a growing body of evidence is beginning to suggest that the problems of “adulting” and mental health in college students may be rooted, at least in part, in modern childhood. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.acer.org/files/Infographic_YCDI-ACER_Wellbeing_2003-2017.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research shows\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that young people are lacking in emotional resilience and independence compared to previous generations. The problem has been growing in tandem with rising rates of anxiety and depression, perhaps exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and has left colleges scrambling to help and adapt.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Some parents have been parenting differently, they have this value of success at all costs,” said Dori Hutchinson, executive director of the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University. “I like to describe it as some kids are growing up developmentally delayed, today’s 18-year-olds are like 12-year-olds from a decade ago. They have very little tolerance for conflict and discomfort, and COVID just exposed it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How modern childhood changed, and changed mental health\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0034355213480527\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research shows\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that young people who arrive on campus with healthy amounts of resilience and independence do better both academically and emotionally, but today more students of all backgrounds are arriving on campus \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/201509/declining-student-resilience-serious-problem-colleges\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">with significantly less experience\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in dealing with life’s ups and downs. Many even see normal adult activities as risky or dangerous.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a new study currently under review, Georgetown University psychologist \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RWyJAAW/yulia-chentsova-dutton\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yulia Chentsova Dutton\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> looked at whether American college students’ threshold for what is considered risky was comparable to their global peers. Chentsova Dutton and her team interviewed students from Turkey, Russia, Canada and the United States, asking them to describe a risky or dangerous experience they had in the last month. Both Turkish and Russian students described witnessing events that involved actual risk: violent fights on public transportation; hazardous driving conditions caused by drunk drivers; women being aggressively followed on the street. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But American students were far more likely to cite as dangerous things that most adults do every day, like being alone outside or riding alone in an Uber.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The American students’ risk threshold was comparatively “quite low,” according to Chentsova Dutton. Students who reported they gained independence later in childhood — going to the grocery store or riding public transportation alone, for example — viewed their university campus as more dangerous; those same students also had fewer positive emotions when describing risky situations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chentsova Dutton hypothesizes that when students have fewer opportunities to practice autonomy, they have less faith in themselves that they can figure out a risky situation. “My suspicion is that low autonomy seems to translate into low efficacy,” she said. “Low efficacy and a combination of stress is associated with distress,” like anxiety and depression.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recent years, other psychologists have made similar associations. Author and New York University ethical leadership professor Jonathan Haidt has used Nassim Taleb’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=nassim+taleb+antifragile&oq=nassim+taleb+anti&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j69i57j0i512l5j0i22i30l3.3422j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:af34c28b,vid:k4MhC5tcEv0\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">theory of anti-fragility\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to explain how kids’ social and emotional systems act much like our bones and immune systems: Within reason, testing and stressing them doesn’t break them but makes them stronger. But, Haidt and first amendment advocate Greg Lukianoff have argued \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.thecoddling.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">in their writing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a strong culture of “safetyism” which prizes the safety of children above all else, has prevented young people from putting stress on the bones, so to speak, so “\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/10/by-mollycoddling-our-children-were-fuelling-mental-illness-in-teenagers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">such children are\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> likely to suffer more when exposed later to other unpleasant but ordinary life events.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/135584/ss20194.pdf?sequence=1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Psychologists have directly connected\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a lack of resilience and independence to the growth of mental health problems and psychiatric disorders in young adults and say that short cycles of stress or conflict are not only \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">not harmful\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, they are essential to human development. But modern childhood, for a variety of reasons, provides few opportunities for kids to practice those skills. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While it’s hard to point to a single cause, experts say a confluence of factors — including more time spent on smartphones and social media, less time for free play, a culture that prizes safety at the expense of building other characteristics, a fear of child kidnapping, and more adult-directed activities — together have created a culture that keeps kids far away from the kinds of experiences that build resilience.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chentsova Dutton said America has an international reputation for prizing autonomy, but her study opened her eyes to a more complicated picture. American parents \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429261633-9/growing-gaps-enacted-ideational-independence-yulia-chentsova-dutton-derya-g%C3%BCrcan-y%C4%B1ld%C4%B1r%C4%B1m\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">tend to be overprotective\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> when children are young, acting as if kids are going to live at home for a long time, like parents do in Italy. Yet they also expect children to live away from home fairly early for college, like families do in Germany. The result is that American kids end up with drastically fewer years navigating real life than they do in other countries that start much earlier. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We parent like we are in Italy, then send kids away like we are in Germany,” Chentsova Dutton said with a laugh. “Those things don’t match.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A movement hopes to change the culture\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seventeen-year-old Megan Miller, a senior at Hudson High School in Hudson, Ohio, recently drove her two siblings, ages 15 and 12, to Cedar Point Amusement Park for an evening of fun. Miller was nervous. She’d never driven an hour and a half away from home by herself before, especially in the dark — but she had to do it; it was homework for school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The assignment was to try something she’d never done before \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">without\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> her parents’, or anyone else’s, help. Other students figured out how to put air in their tires, cooked a meal for their family from start to finish and drove on the interstate. The point, Miller’s teacher Martin Bach said, was to give these young adults — many of whom would be living away from home in less than a year — experience with trying, failing and figuring something out on their own. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was seeing that student stress and anxiety levels were already bad, then COVID supercharged it,” Bach said. But a pattern of parents “swooping in to solve problems that kids could easily solve on their own” made Bach decide to create the unit on resilience and independence. “In my head I’m thinking, these kids are going off to college, how are they going to cope?”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bach got the idea for the “do something new on your own” assignment from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://letgrow.org/?gclid=Cj0KCQiA-JacBhC0ARIsAIxybyNZrXvL74UGnKQ8_v85bXjdblqfcUvyM6C-Lw4EXJ5Hl8vTVFLIKLoaAot4EALw_wcB\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let Grow\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a national nonprofit promoting greater childhood independence. Let Grow offers free curriculum, aimed mostly at elementary and middle school students, that feels like it’s giving 21st century childhood a hard reset — like “play club,” in which children are allowed to play on school playgrounds without adult interference, and the “think for yourself essay contest.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let Grow is part of a growing movement of psychologists, therapists and educators advocating for evidence-based practices to help kids gain more independence and improve mental health. Let Grow’s co-founder, Lenore Skenazy, said that after traveling for years speaking to parent and school groups about the problem of shrinking childhood independence, she decided that families needed more than a lecture. “The audience would nod along, everybody gets it. But they wouldn’t let their own kids do it,” she said. Skenazy began to understand that the anxiety around child safety was not necessarily parents’ fault — the culture surrounding families almost fetishized child danger. Many parents felt they would be judged — \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/living/florida-mom-arrested-son-park\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">or arrested\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> — if they let their child walk to the park by themselves, or walk to the store. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Skenazy moved the organization toward behavior and policy change to address the cultural issues. Along with the independence curriculum for schools, Let Grow has helped four states enact \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://letgrow.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/model-laws-one-thru-four-june-30-2021.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Reasonable Childhood Independence”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> laws aimed at protecting parents from neglect charges. Let Grow also speaks directly to parents and teachers about letting kids try things by themselves — and being surprised by what their kids are able to do. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like Megan Miller, whose trip to Cedar Point was thrilling yet also had bumps along the way. They got a little lost inside the park, and the siblings had a disagreement over which roller coasters to ride. On the way there, even with navigation on her phone, she took a wrong turn and ended up on an unfamiliar road. But that road wound alongside scenic Lake Erie, which she’d never been on. “It ended up being this beautiful drive that I will definitely do every single time,” Miller said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the trip, Miller’s parents have noticed a change, she said. “I find that I’m much more comfortable driving on highways and for long periods of time. My parents know now that I can do it, which helps a lot.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A road forward\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More researchers, psychologists and educators are looking to find more ways to incorporate independence skills into kids’ daily lives. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clinical psychologist Camilo Ortiz, a professor at Long Island University-Post, began noticing a few years ago that some of his young patients, mostly children being treated for anxiety, would “fold very quickly” at the first sign of adversity. Ortiz uses what he calls the “four Ds” to explain what was happening: Today’s kids experienced less “discomfort, distress, disappointment and danger” than previous generations did, because their parents, who have the best intentions, deprive them of these opportunities. He began to wonder whether kids who didn’t get much of the four Ds were missing an important opportunity to be uncomfortable and then persist — and whether they might help clinically anxious children. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beginning last year, Ortiz began a pilot treatment program for childhood clinical anxiety that is based on independence and “getting parents out of their hair.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“This is not a traditional anxiety treatment,” he said. “My approach is something like: So you’re afraid of the dark? Go to the deli and buy me some salami.” A lot of anxiety is based in fear of the unknown, so the treatment involves having an experience full of uncertainty, like riding the subway alone or going to the grocery alone. If the child can tolerate the discomfort in that situation, Ortiz hypothesized that those lessons might translate to whatever is causing the child anxiety.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Early results are promising: the independence exercises have been successful in quelling anxiety for some children. “The new approach that I have developed is for middle school kids,” he said. “So by the time they’re college students, they’ve gotten a lot more practice with those four Ds.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other groups help build resilience in students in academic settings, like the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.alvordbaker.com/rbp/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Resilience Builder Program\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which aims to help students think more flexibly, be proactive in the face of challenges and learn optimistic thinking. The program’s creator, Mary Alvord, said the protective factors taught to middle schoolers are based on decades of research on childhood resilience. “It’s about being proactive and not feeling like you’re a victim, how you can control some things, but you can’t control everything,” she said. “How can you make the best of it, and if you can’t — how do you ask for help?” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Experts say independence and autonomy are best formed and tested in childhood, but it’s never too late to begin. At the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University, Hutchinson and her team help college students diagnosed with mental illness continue their education and reach their goals, and that often begins with building their resilience and independence skills. The center has developed a curriculum that is focused not just on students, but parents and faculty as well. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Families are a player at the table,” Hutchinson said. Parents benefit from coaching that shows them how to support their student without “doing for” them. 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She published \u003cem>Out of Darkness in\u003c/em> 2015, a year that invoked a national conversation surrounding issues of race, environmental racism, racialized violence and police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> is based on a true-events: In 1937, a natural gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas, killed nearly 300 students and teachers — one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. history. This historical context is foregrounded by the fictional love story between an African American boy and a Mexican American girl. The characters cross color lines and navigate familial tensions and traumas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The novel re-contextualizes contemporary issues of race, providing a historical framework in a not-so-post-racial America. After many years on bookshelves, in 2021 this frank portrayal earned the book a spot on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/04/1090067026/efforts-to-ban-books-jumped-an-unprecedented-four-fold-in-2021-ala-report-says\">American Library Association (ALA) Banned Book List\u003c/a> for \"depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview below has been edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about the human experience, even the hard parts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-60734 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-160x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-800x1136.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-1020x1448.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-768x1091.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-1082x1536.jpg 1082w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-1442x2048.jpg 1442w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Out of Darkness\u003c/em>, like many works of literature, engages with all kinds of aspects of human experience. And as a literature professor myself, I can tell you that literature from the Bible to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Faulkner deals with difficult topics because those aspects of life are the materials literature... it's not to be provocative or to distress anyone, but because when we want to write about human experience honestly and completely, we have to include the pain of being a person. And so I think that \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> is literature. And in many ways, what book banners in the present moment are suggesting is that literature that honestly engages human experience is somehow inappropriate for teenagers. And when we hear things like 'there is pornographic content in school libraries,' what we're really hearing is engagement with human experience, such as sexual experience — we're hearing that being portrayed as pornographic. But that's not that's not that's not true of \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> or the other books that have been vilified in this movement any more than it's true of the Bible being pornographic because it has sexual content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On books about the past being resonant in the present \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> I was trying to do something a little bit different, which was to write the historical novel that readers like my students wouldn't be able to put down. A historical novel that, though being about the past, would seem powerfully resonant with their lives. In \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em>, for example, I engaged the histories of school segregation in Texas, not just the ways that schools were segregated to separate Black Americans and white American students, but also what happened to Mexican American kids or anyone who was didn't fit into those categories. Texas had \"Mexican schools\" that were unequal in different ways and in some ways more damaging. And my students didn't know that history. So I thought with \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> about what my former students would want in a book about the past so that it would speak to them now. And a lot of what they wanted was honesty, not to see things sugarcoated or sanitized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On bans overwhelmingly targeting authors who are marginalized\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be people who buy the book because of hearing this interview. But for the hundreds of authors whose works have been banned but who haven't been interviewed on NPR, this can be career ending. I mean, losing access to school and library markets can be career ending for authors. And since these bans are overwhelmingly targeting people — authors of color and authors with other marginalized identities, this is a real threat to the modest progress we've made in diversifying children's literature and literature for young adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Claire Murashima produced the broadcast version of this story. Meghan Collins Sullivan edited this story for the web. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Banned+Books%3A+Author+Ashley+Hope+P%C3%A9rez+on+finding+humanity+in+the+%27darkness%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Ashley Hope Pérez published \"Out of Darkness\" in 2015 to critical acclaim. 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She published \u003cem>Out of Darkness in\u003c/em> 2015, a year that invoked a national conversation surrounding issues of race, environmental racism, racialized violence and police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> is based on a true-events: In 1937, a natural gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas, killed nearly 300 students and teachers — one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. history. This historical context is foregrounded by the fictional love story between an African American boy and a Mexican American girl. The characters cross color lines and navigate familial tensions and traumas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The novel re-contextualizes contemporary issues of race, providing a historical framework in a not-so-post-racial America. After many years on bookshelves, in 2021 this frank portrayal earned the book a spot on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/04/04/1090067026/efforts-to-ban-books-jumped-an-unprecedented-four-fold-in-2021-ala-report-says\">American Library Association (ALA) Banned Book List\u003c/a> for \"depictions of abuse and because it was considered to be sexually explicit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The interview below has been edited for length and clarity. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about the human experience, even the hard parts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-60734 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-160x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-160x227.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-800x1136.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-1020x1448.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-768x1091.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-1082x1536.jpg 1082w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1-1442x2048.jpg 1442w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2022/12/out-of-darkness_custom-fc6bb3f47feb57907f20c82c46c8e4d8edc302c2-1.jpg 1745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">Out of Darkness\u003c/em>, like many works of literature, engages with all kinds of aspects of human experience. And as a literature professor myself, I can tell you that literature from the Bible to Chaucer to Shakespeare to Faulkner deals with difficult topics because those aspects of life are the materials literature... it's not to be provocative or to distress anyone, but because when we want to write about human experience honestly and completely, we have to include the pain of being a person. And so I think that \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> is literature. And in many ways, what book banners in the present moment are suggesting is that literature that honestly engages human experience is somehow inappropriate for teenagers. And when we hear things like 'there is pornographic content in school libraries,' what we're really hearing is engagement with human experience, such as sexual experience — we're hearing that being portrayed as pornographic. But that's not that's not that's not true of \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> or the other books that have been vilified in this movement any more than it's true of the Bible being pornographic because it has sexual content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On books about the past being resonant in the present \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> I was trying to do something a little bit different, which was to write the historical novel that readers like my students wouldn't be able to put down. A historical novel that, though being about the past, would seem powerfully resonant with their lives. In \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em>, for example, I engaged the histories of school segregation in Texas, not just the ways that schools were segregated to separate Black Americans and white American students, but also what happened to Mexican American kids or anyone who was didn't fit into those categories. Texas had \"Mexican schools\" that were unequal in different ways and in some ways more damaging. And my students didn't know that history. So I thought with \u003cem>Out of Darkness\u003c/em> about what my former students would want in a book about the past so that it would speak to them now. And a lot of what they wanted was honesty, not to see things sugarcoated or sanitized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On bans overwhelmingly targeting authors who are marginalized\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There will be people who buy the book because of hearing this interview. But for the hundreds of authors whose works have been banned but who haven't been interviewed on NPR, this can be career ending. I mean, losing access to school and library markets can be career ending for authors. And since these bans are overwhelmingly targeting people — authors of color and authors with other marginalized identities, this is a real threat to the modest progress we've made in diversifying children's literature and literature for young adults.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Claire Murashima produced the broadcast version of this story. Meghan Collins Sullivan edited this story for the web. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Banned+Books%3A+Author+Ashley+Hope+P%C3%A9rez+on+finding+humanity+in+the+%27darkness%27&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/60733/banned-books-author-ashley-hope-perez-on-writing-honest-history-in-ya-fiction","authors":["byline_mindshift_60733"],"categories":["mindshift_21445","mindshift_21517","mindshift_21014"],"tags":["mindshift_21519","mindshift_21516","mindshift_20997","mindshift_1013","mindshift_21397","mindshift_21158"],"featImg":"mindshift_60738","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_54477":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_54477","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"54477","score":null,"sort":[1569219288000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"friendship-ibs-and-transgender-history-three-innovative-ya-graphic-novels","title":"Friendship, IBS and Transgender History: Three Innovative YA Graphic Novels","publishDate":1569219288,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>Get ready to get woozy, get groovy and yell \"Yee-ha!\" September sees the arrival of a handful of audacious new graphic novels aimed at the young-adult crowd. With settings ranging from a contemporary Chinese-American community to the Old West, this trio of books tackles such unexpected topics as irritable bowel syndrome and transgender history with a combination of wit, heart and visual flair. It's a good month to be a preteen — or to read like one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/762843696/stargazing\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-54480 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stargazing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stargazing.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stargazing-160x232.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/762843696/stargazing\">\u003cstrong>Stargazing\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/659996711/jen-wang\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Jen Wang\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Paperback, 1 volume (unpaged)\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Jen Wang, author of the delightful \u003ci>The Prince and the Dressmaker\u003c/i> drew on personal experience for parts of this story, in which a young girl is diagnosed with a brain tumor. (Wang herself had to have a brain tumor removed when she was six.) But much of what's great about \u003ci>Stargazing\u003c/i> has little to do with how Wang handles that subject. The book comes to life thanks to the vividness of its two main characters, Christine and Moon. When Christine's parents rent out their carriage house to a new family, the shy preteen violinist gains an unpredictable, energetic and endlessly beguiling new friend in Moon. Suddenly Christine finds herself signed up to appear in the school talent show — not to play her violin, but to perform in a dance group inspired by Moon's favorite K-Pop star. Moon's effervescence is inspiring to Christine, but also a little scary. Moon says she has visions of people up in space communicating with her. \"That's why I'm so different from everyone,\" she explains. \"I'm actually a celestial being, like the ones in my sketchbook. Someday soon I think they're going to come get me.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Wang is pitch-perfect when it comes to complex relationship dynamics and the subtleties of growing up Asian in America. Her art is a supple balance of quirkiness and relatability. Christine's expressions reacting to her kindly but clueless parents are just priceless. Moon is so suffused with bouncy, chaotic energy, she seems almost to levitate — especially when she's showing Christine new dance moves. \u003ci>Stargazing\u003c/i> really sparkles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/753513015/guts\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Guts-e1569216447943.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"363\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/753513015/guts\">\u003cstrong>Guts\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/165479482/raina-telgemeier\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Raina Telgemeier\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Paperback, 224 pages\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">She's stormed bestseller lists and won multiple Eisner Awards with the graphic memoirs \u003ci>Smile\u003c/i> and \u003ci>Sisters\u003c/i>. Now Raina Telgemeier returns with a soul-baring account of her youthful battles with anxiety and irritable bowel syndrome. Featuring Telgemeier's trademarks — bouncy artwork, wry wisdom and plenty of laughs — \u003ci>Guts\u003c/i> finds broad resonance in an unusual problem. Starting around fifth grade, young Raina develops a fixation on, and fear of, throwing up. \"I didn't puke,\" she recalls of one occasion when the feeling seized her. \"But the thought that I might was worse than if I actually had ... 'Sick' isn't quite the right word for it. But something was definitely wrong.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As she grapples with her fears under a helpful therapist's aegis, she faces a gamut of challenges at school: Michelle, the mean girl who sits next to her in class; the terror-inducing prospect of presenting an oral report; the possibility that her best friend may move away to the other side of town. Telgemeier writes about each new development with nicely modulated optimism, intermingling positivity with an ironical matter-of-factness. When a teacher tells Raina, \"perhaps you and Michelle can become allies instead of adversaries,\" young Raina knows the real message. \"In non-teacher-speak, that means, 'If I'm nice to you, maybe you won't be so mean to me,'\" she thinks. \"You first.\" Telgemeier's down-to-earth style is as winning as ever, making its unusual topic instantly relatable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/762847080/stage-dreams\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54482\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stage-Dreams-e1569216563949.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"313\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/762847080/stage-dreams\">\u003cstrong>Stage Dreams\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/762847161/melanie-gillman\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Melanie Gillman\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Paperback, 103 pages\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As in 2017's \u003ci>As the Crow Flies\u003c/i>, the irresistible attraction in \u003ci>Stage Dreams\u003c/i> is Melanie Gillman's radiant color work. Using colored pencils, Gillman painstakingly fills in layer upon layer of heathery tones until each page seems to breathe. Their glowing, autumnal palette is perfect for this story of heists and hijinks in the Old West. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Fleeing conscription into the Confederate army, Grace, a trans teen from Georgia, boards a stagecoach heading across the New Mexico Territory. In short order she's kidnapped by the notorious Ghost Hawk — actually Flor, a female bandit with dreams of retiring to a goat farm of her very own. (\"Goats?\" asks Grace. \"Only livestock that's useful \u003ci>and\u003c/i> smart,\" Flor explains.) Flor plans to sneak into an upcoming gathering of Southern rail barons to get information she can sell to the Union army. Grace offers to help, and the pair embark on a complicated caper. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">While Gillman's narrative skills have improved since \u003ci>As the Crow Flies\u003c/i>, they still aren't as strong a storyteller as they are an artist. But Grace and Flor are engaging figures, and \u003ci>Stage Dreams'\u003c/i> sweeping lines and dimensional shading are rich pleasures. In an afterward, Gillman offers historical background on trans men in the Confederate army and the American West. Their earnestness and dedication make \u003ci>Stage Dreams\u003c/i> memorable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Etelka Lehoczky \u003c/em>\u003cem>has written about books for\u003c/em> The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books \u003cem>and\u003c/em> The New York Times.\u003cem> She tweets at\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_EtelkaL&d=DwMFaQ&c=E2nBno7hEddFhl23N5nD1Q&r=eDR3RhrQF9JBI8Rzx0SRPw&m=vR6dskFG6Pki76w8marL327xnaWSpIVAqnkFp2Pm3ak&s=Mdo8__hjawldjbQthelAboNsxAd-9SFUx24643NrlUM&e=\">@EtelkaL\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Kick+Off+Fall+With+This+Trio+Of+Innovative+YA+Graphic+Novels&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Bold new graphic novels aimed at young adult readers tell stories of transgender identity in the wild west, dealing with anxiety and irritable bowel syndrome, and becoming friends with an unusual new neighbor. 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With settings ranging from a contemporary Chinese-American community to the Old West, this trio of books tackles such unexpected topics as irritable bowel syndrome and transgender history with a combination of wit, heart and visual flair. It's a good month to be a preteen — or to read like one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/762843696/stargazing\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-54480 alignleft\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stargazing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stargazing.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stargazing-160x232.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/762843696/stargazing\">\u003cstrong>Stargazing\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/659996711/jen-wang\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Jen Wang\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Paperback, 1 volume (unpaged)\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Jen Wang, author of the delightful \u003ci>The Prince and the Dressmaker\u003c/i> drew on personal experience for parts of this story, in which a young girl is diagnosed with a brain tumor. (Wang herself had to have a brain tumor removed when she was six.) But much of what's great about \u003ci>Stargazing\u003c/i> has little to do with how Wang handles that subject. The book comes to life thanks to the vividness of its two main characters, Christine and Moon. When Christine's parents rent out their carriage house to a new family, the shy preteen violinist gains an unpredictable, energetic and endlessly beguiling new friend in Moon. Suddenly Christine finds herself signed up to appear in the school talent show — not to play her violin, but to perform in a dance group inspired by Moon's favorite K-Pop star. Moon's effervescence is inspiring to Christine, but also a little scary. Moon says she has visions of people up in space communicating with her. \"That's why I'm so different from everyone,\" she explains. \"I'm actually a celestial being, like the ones in my sketchbook. Someday soon I think they're going to come get me.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Wang is pitch-perfect when it comes to complex relationship dynamics and the subtleties of growing up Asian in America. Her art is a supple balance of quirkiness and relatability. Christine's expressions reacting to her kindly but clueless parents are just priceless. Moon is so suffused with bouncy, chaotic energy, she seems almost to levitate — especially when she's showing Christine new dance moves. \u003ci>Stargazing\u003c/i> really sparkles.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/753513015/guts\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54481\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Guts-e1569216447943.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"363\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/753513015/guts\">\u003cstrong>Guts\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/165479482/raina-telgemeier\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Raina Telgemeier\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Paperback, 224 pages\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">She's stormed bestseller lists and won multiple Eisner Awards with the graphic memoirs \u003ci>Smile\u003c/i> and \u003ci>Sisters\u003c/i>. Now Raina Telgemeier returns with a soul-baring account of her youthful battles with anxiety and irritable bowel syndrome. Featuring Telgemeier's trademarks — bouncy artwork, wry wisdom and plenty of laughs — \u003ci>Guts\u003c/i> finds broad resonance in an unusual problem. Starting around fifth grade, young Raina develops a fixation on, and fear of, throwing up. \"I didn't puke,\" she recalls of one occasion when the feeling seized her. \"But the thought that I might was worse than if I actually had ... 'Sick' isn't quite the right word for it. But something was definitely wrong.\" \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As she grapples with her fears under a helpful therapist's aegis, she faces a gamut of challenges at school: Michelle, the mean girl who sits next to her in class; the terror-inducing prospect of presenting an oral report; the possibility that her best friend may move away to the other side of town. Telgemeier writes about each new development with nicely modulated optimism, intermingling positivity with an ironical matter-of-factness. When a teacher tells Raina, \"perhaps you and Michelle can become allies instead of adversaries,\" young Raina knows the real message. \"In non-teacher-speak, that means, 'If I'm nice to you, maybe you won't be so mean to me,'\" she thinks. \"You first.\" Telgemeier's down-to-earth style is as winning as ever, making its unusual topic instantly relatable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ca href=\"npr.org/books/titles/762847080/stage-dreams\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-54482\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/09/Stage-Dreams-e1569216563949.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"313\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/762847080/stage-dreams\">\u003cstrong>Stage Dreams\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p2\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>by \u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/authors/762847161/melanie-gillman\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">\u003ci>Melanie Gillman\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">\u003ci>Paperback, 103 pages\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">As in 2017's \u003ci>As the Crow Flies\u003c/i>, the irresistible attraction in \u003ci>Stage Dreams\u003c/i> is Melanie Gillman's radiant color work. Using colored pencils, Gillman painstakingly fills in layer upon layer of heathery tones until each page seems to breathe. Their glowing, autumnal palette is perfect for this story of heists and hijinks in the Old West. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">Fleeing conscription into the Confederate army, Grace, a trans teen from Georgia, boards a stagecoach heading across the New Mexico Territory. In short order she's kidnapped by the notorious Ghost Hawk — actually Flor, a female bandit with dreams of retiring to a goat farm of her very own. (\"Goats?\" asks Grace. \"Only livestock that's useful \u003ci>and\u003c/i> smart,\" Flor explains.) Flor plans to sneak into an upcoming gathering of Southern rail barons to get information she can sell to the Union army. Grace offers to help, and the pair embark on a complicated caper. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p10\">\u003cspan class=\"s1\">While Gillman's narrative skills have improved since \u003ci>As the Crow Flies\u003c/i>, they still aren't as strong a storyteller as they are an artist. But Grace and Flor are engaging figures, and \u003ci>Stage Dreams'\u003c/i> sweeping lines and dimensional shading are rich pleasures. In an afterward, Gillman offers historical background on trans men in the Confederate army and the American West. Their earnestness and dedication make \u003ci>Stage Dreams\u003c/i> memorable.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Etelka Lehoczky \u003c/em>\u003cem>has written about books for\u003c/em> The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books \u003cem>and\u003c/em> The New York Times.\u003cem> She tweets at\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_EtelkaL&d=DwMFaQ&c=E2nBno7hEddFhl23N5nD1Q&r=eDR3RhrQF9JBI8Rzx0SRPw&m=vR6dskFG6Pki76w8marL327xnaWSpIVAqnkFp2Pm3ak&s=Mdo8__hjawldjbQthelAboNsxAd-9SFUx24643NrlUM&e=\">@EtelkaL\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Kick+Off+Fall+With+This+Trio+Of+Innovative+YA+Graphic+Novels&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/mindshift/54477/friendship-ibs-and-transgender-history-three-innovative-ya-graphic-novels","authors":["byline_mindshift_54477"],"categories":["mindshift_193"],"tags":["mindshift_20784","mindshift_1040","mindshift_20564","mindshift_21158"],"featImg":"mindshift_54478","label":"mindshift"},"mindshift_49902":{"type":"posts","id":"mindshift_49902","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"mindshift","id":"49902","score":null,"sort":[1513666532000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-teens-find-stories-about-the-end-of-the-world-so-appealing","title":"Why Teens Find Stories About The End Of The World So Appealing","publishDate":1513666532,"format":"standard","headTitle":"MindShift | KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"mindshift"},"content":"\u003cp>The plots of dystopian novels can be amazing. A group of teens in Holland, Mich., tells me about some of their favorites:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003cem>Delirium \u003c/em>by Lauren Oliver, Love is considered a disease. Characters get a vaccine for it. In Marissa Meyer's \u003cem>Renegades,\u003c/em> the collapse of society has left only a small group of humans with extraordinary abilities. They work to establish justice and peace in their new world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Westerfeld's \u003cem>Uglies\u003c/em> is on everyone's favorite list. The plot goes like this: Everyone wants to be pretty. And their 16th birthday, they can be surgically altered to be a \"pretty.\" During the surgery, however, lesions are put on their brains. These can cause illness, or hinder your thinking. If characters get an important enough job later on, they get those lesions removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teens explaining these books are sitting around a table at the public library in the idyllic west Michigan town. Tonight the book club is meeting to talk about \u003cem>House of The Scorpion\u003c/em> by Nancy Farmer — the gathering is part of the library's young adult programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the flyer advertises this book as dystopian, there's some dissent around that (at a dystopian book club, this distrust of \"the adults and their flyers\" is no surprise.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief plot description (there's a drug lord, clones and, of course, a rebellion against the status quo), Taylor Gort, 17, starts things off: \"It's a question of how many ethics rules are you willing to break,\" she says, referring to the book's main character, El Patrón. Amanda Heidema, the librarian leading the discussion, nods her head, \"I mean, is making a clone ethical?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few beats of silence before Will Anderson shakes his head: \"No, I don't think it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation goes on for nearly an hour — flowing from clones, to whether or not manipulation is evil, to how screwed up adults are (\u003cem>can you believe they think this book is dystopian? It's not.\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last one — how messed up grownups are — it's a hallmark of dystopia, especially in the young adult genre. When I ask the group why they think these types of books are so popular with teens, they tell me it has a lot to do with relatability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There tends to be a common teen-angst thing, like: 'Oh the whole world is against me, the whole world is so screwed up,' \" Will explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teenagers are cynical, adds Aaron Yost, 16. And they should be: \"To be fair, they were born into a world that their parents kind of really messed up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone here agrees: The plots in dystopia feel super familiar. That's kind of what makes the books scary — and really good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think of it like this: Teen readers themselves are characters in a strange land. Rules don't make sense. School doesn't always make sense. And they don't have a ton of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their parents impose curfews, and no one lets them drive unless they are ready or not,\" says Jon Ostenson, who studies young adult dystopian literature at Brigham Young University in Utah. He published a paper on the subject in 2013, for which he spent months reading YA dystopia. \"I had to take a break for quite a while — unfortunately there's not a lot of utopian fiction to balance that out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dystopia, he says, \"Teenagers see echoes of a world that they know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These books don't always have a happy ending, and they're all about choices and consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hallmark of moving from childhood to adulthood is that you start to recognize that things aren't black and white,\" says Ostenson \"and there's a whole bunch of ethical grey area out there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which makes dystopian fiction perfect for the developing adolescent brain, says Laurence Steinberg, \u003ca href=\"http://www.laurencesteinberg.com/\">a psychologist at Temple University\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their brains are very responsive to emotionally arousing stimuli,\" he explains. 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Tonight the book club is meeting to talk about \u003cem>House of The Scorpion\u003c/em> by Nancy Farmer — the gathering is part of the library's young adult programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the flyer advertises this book as dystopian, there's some dissent around that (at a dystopian book club, this distrust of \"the adults and their flyers\" is no surprise.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief plot description (there's a drug lord, clones and, of course, a rebellion against the status quo), Taylor Gort, 17, starts things off: \"It's a question of how many ethics rules are you willing to break,\" she says, referring to the book's main character, El Patrón. Amanda Heidema, the librarian leading the discussion, nods her head, \"I mean, is making a clone ethical?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a few beats of silence before Will Anderson shakes his head: \"No, I don't think it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversation goes on for nearly an hour — flowing from clones, to whether or not manipulation is evil, to how screwed up adults are (\u003cem>can you believe they think this book is dystopian? It's not.\u003c/em>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That last one — how messed up grownups are — it's a hallmark of dystopia, especially in the young adult genre. When I ask the group why they think these types of books are so popular with teens, they tell me it has a lot to do with relatability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There tends to be a common teen-angst thing, like: 'Oh the whole world is against me, the whole world is so screwed up,' \" Will explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teenagers are cynical, adds Aaron Yost, 16. And they should be: \"To be fair, they were born into a world that their parents kind of really messed up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone here agrees: The plots in dystopia feel super familiar. That's kind of what makes the books scary — and really good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think of it like this: Teen readers themselves are characters in a strange land. Rules don't make sense. School doesn't always make sense. And they don't have a ton of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their parents impose curfews, and no one lets them drive unless they are ready or not,\" says Jon Ostenson, who studies young adult dystopian literature at Brigham Young University in Utah. He published a paper on the subject in 2013, for which he spent months reading YA dystopia. \"I had to take a break for quite a while — unfortunately there's not a lot of utopian fiction to balance that out.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In dystopia, he says, \"Teenagers see echoes of a world that they know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These books don't always have a happy ending, and they're all about choices and consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The hallmark of moving from childhood to adulthood is that you start to recognize that things aren't black and white,\" says Ostenson \"and there's a whole bunch of ethical grey area out there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which makes dystopian fiction perfect for the developing adolescent brain, says Laurence Steinberg, \u003ca href=\"http://www.laurencesteinberg.com/\">a psychologist at Temple University\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Their brains are very responsive to emotionally arousing stimuli,\" he explains. During this time, there are so many new emotions and they are much stronger than those kids experienced when they were younger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When teenagers feel sad, what they often do it put themselves in situations where they feel even sadder,\" Steinberg says. They listen to sad music — think emo! — they watch melodramatic TV shows. So dystopian novels fit right in, they have all that sadness plus big, emotional ideas: justice, fairness, loyalty and mortality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This time in a kid's life is often defined by acting out, but, Steinberg says, that's a misguided interpretation of what's happening. \"It isn't so much rebellion, but it is questioning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the brain develops, so does executive functioning. Teens start to understand argument, logical reasoning and hypotheticals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Kids are going through a stage in development when they are trying on different identities,\" he says, \"flexing a muscle that they now have that wasn't very strong before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fact that these books offer a safety net, a place where kids can \"flirt with those questions without getting into trouble,\" that's reason enough to keep teachers and parents buying them off the shelf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2017 NPR. 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