I teach the same novels and, while they are good, it’s hard to pick up another book when over the course of the entire school year, I read up to 20 novels and other texts. Sometimes I fall in and out of touch with personal reading for my own benefit. And then, I realized, there was something I could do with a hobby (and job) that I love: reading. I followed new sites and accounts, felt content when my social media started to become dominated by people of color and the LGBTQ community. I felt helpless in many ways protesting amid a pandemic while recovering from surgery scared me, I didn’t have too much money to donate to websites I wasn’t sure would do their part, and only posting to social media just felt a bit hollow. With all of the current issues in the world and the BLM movement, I found myself wondering how I could personally make a change to better the world.
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