10/15/1837 — b. Fannie Jackson Coppin, American educator, missionary. The first African-American woman school principal, head of the Institute for Colored Youth, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania(1869). Co-founder of a South African missionary(1902) #womenshistory #edu #EduSky #AcademicSky #woc #leadership

10/13/1901 — b. Edith Sampson, American lawyer, jurist. The first African-American woman elected to Illinois bench as judge of the Cook County Circuit Court (1962). The first #AfricanAmerican U.S. delegate appointed to the United Nations #womenshistory #woc #law #LawSky #gov #UN #Vote #CourtsMatter

🧩 USA
#art #pixelart #digital #woc #pixel

By: woc

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Zylvarian Chronicles: Volume 2.1 is a work of Speculative LGBTQIA+ Fantasy-Fiction. This adventure explores themes of identity and loss. Readers are sure to be enraptured by the familiar tropes

- Found Family
- Enemies to Lovers
- The Chosen One
- Dark Secret

And more!

#DVpit #F #LGBT #POC #WOC

17yo Roya has perfected being the ideal Afghan immigrant daughter—until she learns her sister died by suicide, not heart failure.In London, Roya digs into a family history of grief, war and guilt, risking the fragile bonds holding her fractured family together.
#DVpit #YA #CON #OWN #MV #MH #WOC #POC

#BVM When a reluctant partnership risks your secret memory-based powers and turns into the one thing you promised you’d never allow again.

🎼 musicians
❤️‍🔥 slow burn
✨ neurodivergent & anxiety rep
🏠 meddling family members (& cats!)
📷 family secrets & magical lineage

#DVPIT #A #CR #ND #MH #WOC

In a world where many adults don't know when/how 2 intervene when others are experiencing harm, FAERIE DREAMERIE LAND gives an "in" to that conversation w/children in a whimsical & magickal way that honors that we can't know light w/o shadows. #DVPIT #F #NIV #LGBT #ND #WOC #KIDLIT #BIPOC #PB-#CB

The global resistance movement against longevity recruits Hanna Kim when a forced blood donation leaves her sister in a preventable coma. Hanna must defy her powerful mother and reject everything she was taught to discover the truth and save those she loves.

#DVpit #A #SF #SFF #OWN #Asian #POC #WOC

KaikeyiXSkywardXAddamsFamily

16yo Ishika Husk doesn’t really want to stop riding her pet bears or leave the luxury of fresh air, but she must go help humanity survive the Red Planet where everyone blames her absent mother for convincing them to leave Earth.

#DVpit #SFF #YA #woc #SF
🤬ComingofRage

For as long as Annie could remember Mommy was her only family. But today she stumbles upon buried memories that lead her through homey island music, city-defining foods, and sweet communal laughter. It’s the search of a lifetime, one Annie didn't know she needed…until now.
#DVpit #PB #WOC #POC #BVM

HARBINDER KAUR x KNIVES OUT x FOLKLORE
 
🕵️‍♀️A sleuth who is rooted in science and evidence
🗡️Murders masked as accidents
👻 An ancient ghost, old myths, secrets and lies muddying the waters
💀 What will it take her to catch a murderer hiding in plain sight?
 
#DVPit #A #MYS #OWN #POC #WOC

#DVPit #YA #CON #NIV #ASIAN #WOC #LGBT #MH
SPEAK BUT W/ KIMCHI

Nobody wants to hear about SA
Or think about it
Until it happens to you.
Least of all the eldest daughter
Of immigrants.
So she peels back layer after layer
To cut away the pain
But only finds herself.
Can she learn to be enough?

There is a rise in the hunger 4 #F that includes #Black, #Brown, & #Queer characters/culture is undeniable. We want to see ourselves. #FAEFYRE is set in an Alt Oakland centering gender expansive chosen family. #faeries #Fae

#DVPIT #GN #A #CF #BVM #LGBT #ND #WOC #ownvoices

💖 SHE’S THE MAN, BUT E-SPORTS 🎮

Cam lies about her gender to join a pro e-sports team, but captain Jacob thinks her inexperience is a liability. To earn her spot, she must prove her skills, survive a social-media firestorm, and resist falling for the infuriatingly hot captain.

#DVPit #NA #R #WOC

In the liminal space between picture book & chapter book, FAERIE DREAMERIE LAND shows a young girl discovering her own light while helping someone else find their’s. Literacy is in such a fundamental decline. This type of book is more important than ever.
#DVPIT #F #NIV #LGBT #ND #WOC #KIDLIT #BVM

Nothing quite brings the world together like an axe-wielding amnesiac healer chasing after rogue death priests to save her mother's soul from the grim reaper. Completely inept in her power, Uzani charges forward while her dragon companions go grey from worry #DVpit #POC #F #ND #WOC #BVM #LGBT

Believing he had a secret agenda, Chrissy never wanted anything to do with Joshua Daniels. But when Operation Space Girl shatters, she never imagined he'd be the person she needed.

⭐️ Space Girl
❤️ Rom-Com
🌻 Friendship
🏡 Family

#DVPit #W #YA #WOC #Guyanese #Poc #WestIndian

A film noir-inspired fantasy.

As a corporate overlord threatens a magical entertainment industry by turning art into a commodity, a silent performer and a roguish mafioso fight to maintain the spirit of art and magic before it all gets replaced by soulless artifacts.

#DVpit #YA #F #POC #ND #R #WOC

JANE EYRE with Quechua roots. A mestiza governess. A handsome Don. A hidden daughter. In 1771 colonial Peru, love isn't Amaya's greatest obstacle. Race, class, and a cruel Doña determined to claim her employer stand in the way of her happily ever after. #DVpit #A # HR #R #Latine #WOC

THE POPPY FIELDS x THE DREAM HOTEL x RENEGADES

Genetically modified, Avilia's life has been meticulously arranged, but when the president’s insatiable greed marks her as the next target, she must learn to take control of her destiny before the puppet master dances her to death.

#DVpit #A #SF #WOC