Gossip Girls and Ghetto Girls: Why all the fuss about street lit?

September 22, 2008 - Filed under: Advocacy, Opinion, Teen Culture, YA Books, reflectionsStephanie Librarian @ 8:18 am

Kati Nofli discusses the fear of streetlit and how absurd it is for classy white people to judge this genre:

Why are so many librarians—advocates of the uncensored right to read anything on all points of view—panic-stricken over teens reading street lit? … As librarians we are never endorsing anything that is on our shelves. We are providing free access to myriad ideas through information. Why would street lit be any different?

Read the entire article at Foreward Magazine.