To ugly ducklings everywhere,
Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They'll never get to be swans
Tags: inspirational funny self-image humorous sweet clever cute cool humor-inspirational
My first memory is of the smell of sunwarmed earth.
Zoë MarriottOn my fourteenth birthday when the sakura was in full bloom, the men came to kill us.
Zoë MarriottI never knew my mother's name.
Zoë MarriottPeople trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there
Zoë MarriottTags: inspirational truth deception lies
No one knows me. Not anymore
Zoë MarriottTags: identity
Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought.
Zoë MarriottAside from wanting to write cracking good books that turn children into lifelong readers, I really want to create stories that enable kids to LOOK at the world around them. To see it for what it is, with wide open, wondering eyes. Our mass media is so horribly skewed. It presents this idea of 'normalcy' which excludes and marginalises so many for an idea of commercial viability which is really nothing but blinkered prejudice. People who are black and Asian and Middle Eastern and Hispanic, people who are gay or transgendered or genderqueer, people who have disabilities, disfigurements or illnesses - all have this vision of a world which does not include them shoved down their throats almost 24-7, and they're told 'No one wants to see stories about people like you. Films and TV shows about people like you won't make money. Stories about straight, white, cisgendered, able-bodied people are universal and everyone likes them. You are small and useless and unattractive and you don't matter.'
My worry is that this warped version of 'normal' eventually forms those very same blinkers on children's eyes, depriving them of their ability to see anyone who isn't the same as them, preventing them from developing the ability to empathise with and appreciate and take joy in the lives and experiences of people who are different from them. If Shadows on the Moon - or anything I write - causes a young person to look at their own life, or the life of another, and think, 'Maybe being different is cool' I will die a happy writer.
-Guest blog - what diversity means to me
Tags: writing diversity minorities
Our greatest warriors,' Terayama-san said, 'believe that they are already dead. They live as if their lives are over, and so fighting holds no terror for them.'
A Suda-san looked gravely at him. 'That, Terayama-san, is one of the saddest things I have ever heard.
It may seem strange to you, but there are no such creatures in Athazie. There is an animal-a very large animal-that lives on the plains and is much the same shape. We call it gadahama. The golden hunter. He does not say meep, meep as these tiny ones do. His voice is like this.' He drew in a deep breath, then let out a deafening roar. The cats fled in all directions at once as they scrambled away.
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