'We live in an unfair world and we have to fight.' ✊ Via guardian
When I arrive at the photography studio to meet the education activist Marley Dias, I am surprised to find the shoot is long over. The 14-year-old is sitting patiently, her luggage packed, coat neatly slung over her lap, waiting. The photographer explains the early finish is because they got all the pictures they needed with Dias near-immediately; that she is the perfect subject to work with.
“It is one of those ‘classic books’ that’s existed in our school systems for so long. My great-grandparents remember when that book came out. I read it last year and it was still assigned. Every single year they wanted us to read a book about a white boy and his dog.” “They just freaked out! And obviously I don’t give out people’s phone numbers, but I used to love her and that whole show and then two years later … wow.
“One author that I love is Tomi Adeyemi; she wrote Children of Blood and Bone, an African fantasy story. We don’t often see black people in futuristic and magical worlds. So she’s taken a genre that has always been a majority white space, and she’s taken some of her own history of being an African American person, and she’s moulded that into something that’s not just a slavery story and is about the history of Africa and in a positive light.
“There’s a lot of economic segregation where I live, and it’s a very important issue. The only reason why it’s not in the book is because I just didn’t really know a lot about it at the time I was writing. I was 11. I address economic inequality now, in my speaking engagements, but at the time I wasn’t aware. I could have got my mum to help me, she would have been great, but then the book wouldn’t be from me.
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