“Not Your Granny’s Dinner Conversation: Diversity, Race, Sex and Gender” covered all of those topics plus many more in a thought-provoking and entertaining conversation that seemed to go by way too quickly to have actually taken an hour.
Jamie Campbell Naidoo, Pat Enciso, Dan Santat, Edi Campbell, Ashley Hope Perez, Kelly Starling Lyons, Jason Low, and Varian Johnson were able to provide points of view from their various backgrounds as authors, educators, and publisher. Some other topics that were discussed were those of self-censoring, vetting as a publisher’s responsibility, and the importance of library advisory boards when planning and designing programming for marginalized populations.