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From Russia and Mexico, 5 Stories and Poems at the Intersection of Race and Class

Posted on August 10, 2020

UPDATED: 10 Virtual Exchanges to Take Your Classroom Global

Posted on July 26, 2020

UN Headquarters during the 63rd session of Commission on the Status of Women on 18 March 2019. By UN Women/Amanda Voisard.

Navigating a Highly Visual World: The Importance of Helping Students Analyze Global Graphic Fiction

Posted on July 07, 2020

Panel from "Heat Wave," by Juliette Boutant and Thomas Mathieu. Translated by Edward Gauvin, published in February 2020 issue of Words Without Borders as part of a series entitled "Crocodiles Are Everywhere."

Students in Washington College’s Children’s and Young Adult Literature class are there because they enjoy reading, they want to write, or they want to teach about literature for younger readers. This year’s class contains seventeen students from a variety of majors, but mostly studying English, elementary education, or secondary English education; more than half intend to teach. These students recently applied what they had been learning about reading literature with pictures to analyze the international graphic works recommended in the WWB Campus blog post “Global Graphic Lit to Fire Up Your Students This Winter,” which caught my eye just as I was about to introduce illustrated texts to the class.

Quechua-Peruvian Journalist Marco Avilés on Racism, Bilingualism and More

Posted on June 29, 2020

An editorial in today's New York Times suggests that "Latin America Is Ready for Its Black Lives Matter Reckoning."

"I'm Not That Strange": Graphic Fiction and More from WWB's 11th Annual Queer Issue

Posted on June 17, 2020

"Have you ever had the feeling that even if you wanted to you'd never blend in?" This is the question that launches the graphic fiction story "Gay Giant," just published in the 11th annual Queer issue of the magazine Words Without Borders.