my yahtism (yahtzee autism)

Yes. There's a lot of Logan's story that takes from First Nations history and imagery, some intentionally and some accidentally and with mixed levels of care, from the spiritual to his military history. IMO James Howlett works better as an mixed indigenous boy who's had to face the violence that community often has to face.

Likewise I think Laura works great as an analogy for indigenous children who get taken into the system and get taught to hate themselves. Both in her and her father's case their growth comes in finding community and learning to appreciate their heritage, a means of allowing the mutant metaphor to be improved on by having it include real life first nations identities.

I have great news:

Not only do those books still exist, but there's more of them, they're more diverse, and more are being written by people who belong to those cultures (rather than well-meaning white researchers). This was just what I found on a five minute cursory walk through the children's area of a small, rural library - there's way more than this, and that's not even touching on the hundreds, thousands of picture books, chapter books, comics, and YA about, by, and for people of all backgrounds. This was just one shelf!

Don't let nostalgia bias fool you into thinking that children's books haven't gotten more diverse because it is very much the opposite. If you haven't heard of the organization We Need Diverse Books, they were formed over a decade ago and they're awesome - they're not the only reason things have improved but they're a big part of why.

We've come so far from where we used to be and we're going to keep moving forward no matter what. Remember that.

K I love you bye

you are in the medieval era and you have this role!

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift