I should be proud of being a little different
Creators:
Aiko Webb ウェブ愛子 (she/hers)
As racialized diasporic children grow up, the one struggle that they will undoubtedly have is thinking about their identity. They may think that they do, and ought to be able to, identify as someone from the mainstream culture; but that choice may be rejected for them. To compound this, they also need to figure out where they stand in terms of heritage identity – especially for people who have multiple heritage identities. Aiko’s book is an amazingly creative way of getting young children to start thinking about their cultural identities at an early age. Through various stories, activities, and prompts, Aiko gets children to think about how to navigate difficult questions around identity, and how to be comfortable with the inevitable uncertainty of discovering one’s identity. What else would you like to see included in a book like this, and how might it be different if the book were for an adult?