{"id":6284,"date":"2018-02-12T22:21:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T22:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2018-02-12T22:21:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T22:21:38","slug":"latest-dewey-decibel-episode-on-comic-books-and-libraries-features-uiucs-mara-thacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/latest-dewey-decibel-episode-on-comic-books-and-libraries-features-uiucs-mara-thacker\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Dewey Decibel Episode (on Comic Books and Libraries) Features UIUC&#8217;s Mara Thacker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">(via the American Library Association)<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dewey-decibel-703453552\/episode-22-diversifying-comics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Episode 22<\/a>,\u00a0<em>Dewey Decibel\u00a0<\/em>features two people who are bringing more diverse voices and representation to the comic book world and libraries.<\/p>\n<p>First,\u00a0<em>Dewey Decibel\u00a0<\/em>host and\u00a0<em>American Libraries\u00a0<\/em>Associate Editor Phil Morehart talks with G. Willow Wilson, the writer of the Ms. Marvel series. She discusses the inspiration behind the character Kamala Khan, the first Muslim-American superhero at Marvel to have her own comic, and why diverse comics are essential to creating a true representation of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Next,\u00a0<em>American Libraries\u00a0<\/em>Associate Editor Terra Dankowski speaks with Mara Thacker, a librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) who curates the library&#8217;s collection of South Asian comics. Thacker discusses the UIUC comics and tips librarians can use to diversify their own collections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The recording of the episode is available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dewey-decibel-703453552\/episode-22-diversifying-comics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dewey-decibel-703453552\/episode-22-diversifying-comics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via the American Library Association) In\u00a0Episode 22,\u00a0Dewey Decibel\u00a0features two people who are bringing more diverse voices and representation to the comic book world and libraries. First,\u00a0Dewey Decibel\u00a0host and\u00a0American Libraries\u00a0Associate Editor Phil Morehart talks with G. Willow Wilson, the writer of the Ms. Marvel series. She discusses the inspiration behind the character Kamala Khan, the first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,18,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-library-association","category-library-associations-non-hsli","category-webinars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}