![]() ![]() ![]() Ireland, who is black, is one of the most influential of these commentators - and perhaps the most cutting. Over the last several years, Ireland and others in the YA world have been using Twitter to call out what they see as an enduring tradition of racist nonsense in publishing. ![]() Ireland - the author of a middle-grade series, Devil’s Pass, and three young-adult novels including Dread Nation, out this week - knows what people say about her, and why they say it. “How many people know this and dare not speak it aloud?” “I name the center figure of all toxicity in YA who is the source of all of this cancer: Justina Ireland,” Stegosaur wrote. Amid the charges of lewd remarks and predatory behavior, one user seized the opportunity to rehash an old complaint that felt bizarrely out of place. The piece was about how children’s publishing was reckoning with its own #MeToo moment, and readers had been using the forum to air complaints of sexual harassment. This winter, the comment section of an article in the School Library Journal took a surreal turn. ![]()
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