#OwnVoices: Tagging, Cataloging, and Making Your Library Collection Completely Searchable

On June 6, 2021 the organization We Need Diverse Books released the post, Why We Need Diverse Books Is No Longer Using the Term #OwnVoices. In it they stated the following:

#OwnVoices was created as a hashtag by author Corinne Duyvis in September 2015. It was originally intended as a shorthand book recommendation tool in a Twitter thread, for readers to recommend books by authors who openly shared the diverse identity of their main characters. The hashtag was never intended to be used in a br...