The document discusses the need for diverse representation in literature, especially focusing on nonbinary and disabled individuals. It highlights various books and awards related to these themes, including specific tests for evaluating disability representation in literature and film. Additionally, it mentions reading challenges aimed at promoting diverse literature.

1. Reading Diversely
Nebraska Library Association Diversity Committee
Elisa Cruz, Keene Memorial Library
Laura Treinen, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Anneka Ramirez, Norfolk Public Library
Angela Kroeger, University of Nebraska at Omaha
NCompass Live March 20, 2019

2. Across a hundred mountains
Grande, R. (2006).
Across a hundred
mountains. New York:
Washington Square
Press.

3. The Poet X
● Pura Belpré Award
(2019)
● National Book Award
for Young People’s
Literature
● Golden Kite award

4. Then it was a movie...
Image source: Amazon

5. Finding books about nonbinary people is harder
than finding books about transgender people.
Some terminology (a very non-exhaustive list):
Nonbinary Agender Bigender
Genderqueer Androgyne Trigender
Gender fluid Third Gender Polygender
Demigender Neutrois Pangender
(For more, see https://nonbinary.miraheze.org/wiki/List_of_nonbinary_identities)
(Remember, gender identity is independent of the physical body.)

6. The 57 Bus
Dashka Slater
New York:
Farrar Straus Giroux,
2017

7. A Quick & Easy Guide to
They/Them Pronouns
Archie Bongiovanni &
Tristan Jimmerson
Portland, Oregon:
Limerence Press,
2018

8. Bone Dance:
A Fantasy for Technophiles
Emma Bull
New York:
Tom Doherty Associates,
1991
(Yeah, it's old. Bear with me here.)

9. Unbroken: 13 Stories
Starring Disabled Teens
Edited by Marieke Nijkamp
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux
Books, 2018

10. Accessible America: A
History of Disability and
Design
Bess Williamson
New York: New York University
Press, 2019

11. The Fries Test
● Does a work have more than one disabled character?
● Do the disabled characters have their own narrative purpose other than the
education and profit of a nondisabled character?
● Is the character’s disability not eradicated either by curing or killing?
Developed by author Kenny Fries
The Fries Test: On Disability Representation in Our Culture
https://medium.com/@kennyfries/the-fries-test-on-disability-representation-in-our-culture-9d1bad72cc00

12. Normalizing
Disability
Why We Need a 'Bechdel Test'
for Disability in Film
Chelsea Rivas
https://themighty.com/2019/03/normalizing-disability-film-tv/

13. Book Riot: Read Harder Challenge
● Written and created
by Rachel Manwill
● 5 years running
● 2019 Challenge
● To learn more go to
https://bookriot.com/category/r
ead-harder/

14. There There
Tommy Orange
Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin Random House
Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2018
National Book Critics Circle John Leonard
Prize 2018
Shortlisted for: Andrew Carnegie Medal for
Excellence in Fiction 2019
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award 2019

15. Convenience Store
Woman
Sayaka Murata
Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Grove Press; First English Edition,
First Printing Edition: 2018/
Bungeishunju 2016
Akutagawa Prize 2016