#GAReads | The Time I Called Out a Children’s Book Author For Letting Girls Down

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The Time I Called Out a Children’s Book Author For Letting Girls Down”:

Our storytime happened to take place in October 2017, just as the #MeToo movement was starting to gain momentum. Women were going public with stories of sexual harassment and outdated, gendered power structures. My own #MeToo stories were swimming in my head when I read Moonshot to my daughter. That night, I could not abide one more message of men’s competence alongside women’s invisibility. Fired up, and bursting with anger at the patriarchy, I did something I don’t usually do: I wrote the author to complain.

Read Darcy Reeder’s full article at Medium’s GEN here…