It's Christina! Literally the only black booktuber that I could find so many years ago when I was hype about booktube and only being recommended specific channels. Idk if anyone still uses their "other channels" tabs, but it would be great to start recommending diverse, smaller channels or even in the description boxes of videos.
AGREED! It took me sooo long to find booktubers that are POC, because they never came up in search! Honestly, my hack to find them was to search for black authors (which is also a problem... why would black booktubers be the only ones reviewing black authors?) Now, since the movement took off, I have discovered so many new voices, but we need this momentum to continue. More conversations like this video! More representation! More support for each other! More making space for marginalized communities!
@Adobe Adobe I watch plenty of white book reviewers because they are easy to find, but I like diversity so I'm giving my tip on how I found it... Let me save your time. If you're looking for a cyber debate, you won't find it with me. Life is too stressful to waste time with that these days.
i love you SO MUCH for this, Ariel! i'm not a creator, but i have been an audience member of booktube going back to 2014. i've honestly felt hurt by the silence of so many of the large content creators that i have followed for all these years. i'm never NOT aware of the likelihood that some of my favorite people would probably never engage with me in-person. that's just the reality of being a big, fuzzy-faced black man. but the silence of so many prominent booktubers has really made me feel like maybe i have just been trespassing this whole time. like i'm really not welcome here. like i'm a stowaway who is only safe so long as i remain silent and invisible. THANK YOU for showing up for us. it's healing to my soul.
This was really illumating. I have a much more diverse subscription list now. It's just a shame that I didn't have that before. TH-cam's algorithm doesn't even recommend black creators. That's a shame.
This was such a great dialog and I appreciate so much Ariel that you gave both Francina and Cristina Marie the space to just talk so we could all listen and you never interrupted. Great interview on your part and both Francina and Cristina Marie's!!! Also, I'm so beyond stoked for Francina's book!!!! Can't wait to purchase it, read it, and support her!
I really enjoyed watching this conversation happen. thank you so much christina and francina for you emotional labour!!! will be reading those books asap
This was very illuminating. As a BIPOC person, I have been very disappointed at the silence of some of the bigger booktubers. I have been unsubscribing from those content creators who are complicit and remain silent in the face of injustice. Thank you for amplifying black voices and for speaking up. Also, I love Francina Simone so much! She’s one of my favorite youtubers!! I am so excited for her new book, Smash it!!!! ❤️
Thank you so much to Francina and Christina Marie for taking the time to open up and share their experiences and insights and for educating once again for free! thank you Ariel for using your platform, would love to see these conversations keep happening with other creators and authors ❤️ please keep it going!
This whole video blew me away. I love THUG, but that can't be the only black story we talk about. I didn't realize how apparent that type of story that was until now. This is why hearing from different people is so important. When I first saw the movie Freedom Writers, I thought it was revolutionary, but someone pointed out that it was a White Savior story. That changed my whole perspective on the movie (for the better). Understanding and growing out of one's own ignorance is so important, especially with the Black Lives Matter movement.
I love The Artisan Geek! It's really hard to find booktube channels that don't focus on YA and fantasy, but they talk about lots of genres including classics. I love classics specifically from women and poc, and I've gotten great recs from their channel!! also their fits are super cute always
Thank you so much to all participants for taking time to give this content to us. I am so appreciative of your insight and work. Such a fantastic conversation and much needed reminder of what work lies ahead. Thank you💜
I like this. I've never heard of you two, but you've gained a new subscriber! Thank you guys for giving your perspective, it's so needed, and thank you for facilitating this Ariel
I think the key to understanding is through emotion. we cant understand specific experiences but if someone adds, this situation made me feel hurt, judged, happy, we understand those emotions even if we don't understand the source. I think this is the most powerful. we all understand feelings!
I loved this so much!! Loved hearing Christina and Francina's perspectives and insight. Thank you all for this
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Thank you so much to all of you, Christina, Francina an Ariel for that discussion. It was very interesting! As I'm a freelancer working mostly in literature and culture, it was also very helpfull to bring the reflexion further and to figure out how to be more inclusive in the book industry/community.
Great video and so many interesting points of discussion. Thanks for getting together to do this girls. We need to see it and discuss it and keep listening. Xxx
This was such an interesting watch. Thank you for organising this. I feel like it's so important to hear about others experiences and how to learn and better myself a d others from this.
Appreciate the BookCon conversation about how demanding labor but not valuing with coins is not okay. That panel was so important and to not do anything this year is just rude. Thanks for using your platform to uplift this conversation, Ariel.
a heartwarming conversation, thanks guys. i learned a bunch of concepts in the American society. I'm from Africa where we have totally different standards that may shock you!
There is a new feature on TH-cam that allows you to integrate the time stamps into the progress bar of the video, just FYI in case you didn’t know yet 👍 way to go managing this complex recording
Yes, loved this well done all three ladies! A really great the discussion and hosted really well with great questions and it's great to see this continuation and that's not just a sporadic movement as representation is so important! You ladies are an inspiration!!
Thank you so much for this! I love how Christina Marie touched on why can't Black people talk about sci-fi or anything other than diversity. Keep up the good work :)
this video was extremely interesting! Thank you to remind me always that the world I thought I was living in doen't exist yet. we have to keep talking about it
Francina is an old favorite, but I've never seen a video by Christina before. I'm going to head over to her channel and get to know her more, but first take from this is that she seems like such a beautiful person. She talked so much about how happy she was about things being helpful for OTHER PEOPLE, and the selflessness is amazing. How might a white person who is trying to educate him/herself, who wants to be better informed, who wants to fight his/her own ignorance and bigotry and DO BETTER, reconcile him/herself with the bigotry and ignorance of his/her older family members?
"You are what you eat" is SUCH a good way to describe it. If you're only exposing yourself to people who are exactly like you, you're eating the same thing every single day, it gets boring, you need to diversify your palate, and eat outside what you are used to, watch outside of your own life.
This was such a great conversation! I loved watching it. I was just wondering where the links to the books mentioned are? I can't find them, but I am very interested in checking them out!
I always remind people that Book Outlet is a Canadian company. Canada is not a utopia, racism is alive and thriving in this country and I'm sick of people praising us for being the good guys.
This was a great conversation! I have a genuine innocent question. I have noticed that because I have been online for so long, that the algorithm isn’t promoting content that is different than people who look similar to me. How can I find booktubers, books, authors, that enjoy similar genres that I do but are BIPOC? Is it offensive to add BIPOC or black to my searches? (I am still learning please forgive if I used vocab incorrectly, but I appreciate your grace and advice)
I’ve had the same problem. TH-cam seemed to think I only wanted to watch white people, so I simply wasn’t shown POC booktubers. There’s the black booktuber tag going around these days. In this tag they recommend other black booktubers as well. Or search being black on booktube, there’s a bunch there as well. Happy searching 🌱
I am a POC and I've had the same problem! I blame youtube and their search function... but some of my favorite booktubers, in addition to the ladies in this video are StarlahReads, Mina Reads, Bowties & Books, LEFT ON READ, thisstoryaintover and NayaReadsandSmiles. Also, you can check out the channels they are subscribed to for more ☺
i loved francina simone's comment about books and reading during this time. i feel like one big factor of how books are important for BLM is that these conversations can happen while these Black authors are getting PAID. so many BIPOC individuals struggle with unpaid emotional, intellectual labour that the least we can all do is read before we stop someone in a grocery store while they're trying to get their almond milk, lmao. i pre-ordered smash it for my library too.
Since the most recent BLM movement, I took a closer look at my Goodreads to see how diverse my reading was, b/c I thought it was, but it was tragically not so. Only 5% of books I read were by non-white authors. _Hang my head in shame. Pick it up and look for more diverse books to read._ And since I don't go for tragic books in general, it was really hard for me to find stories that were just everyday life experiences from diverse perspectives. Finally, I found some titles online, mostly romance, and went to the bookstore... and had another really hard time finding those authors on the shelves. No wonder my previous reading was 95% white - that's what's on the shelves when I go to the bookstore. Sad. But now I know better so I'm putting in the effort to do better.
I’m getting into reading black writers more and I’m really enjoying it! Please drop some suggestions down (I started off reading American marriage - and I loved it) ✨👏🏾 I really wanna support my fellow melanin beauty’s.
Well! I recorded my own video and my own audio and a screen recording of our call. Francina filmed her own video which cut out part way so I only had about 50% of that and 50% of her audio. Christina Marie recorded her video and her sound but because she wasn’t wearing headphones her sound also recorded an echoing version of me and Francina. I was able to use that audio and my screen recorded video to make up for the big chunk of missing Francina! But then it would vary throughout the video how much of her echoing audio I could fix. SO A BIG MESS! But I learned some good stuff. This call was over zoom but for some reason it only recorded the first 32 seconds and then no audio or visuals 🤦🏽♀️
Just please don't subscribe to black youtubers (or any, actually) just for the sake of diversifying if you are not going to watch the content regularly. TH-cam has a system and if you are subscribed to people and don't watch their videos it actually notifies TH-cam that you don't like that content and it will end up hurting them more. Subscribe to people that you actually like and that you actually want to watch, don't have them there just as a token, it's not going to help anyone and you will end up causing them more harm.
I love your channel but found this to be very divisive in some ways. I'm always willing to listen to facts and information, but won't have someone telling me how I should think.
I really enjoyed this! You should do this again but with other black booktubers to get more POVs and to keep the conversation going
That's a great idea, this should be a series!
Or you could watch black booktubers and their channels
It's Christina! Literally the only black booktuber that I could find so many years ago when I was hype about booktube and only being recommended specific channels.
Idk if anyone still uses their "other channels" tabs, but it would be great to start recommending diverse, smaller channels or even in the description boxes of videos.
AGREED! It took me sooo long to find booktubers that are POC, because they never came up in search! Honestly, my hack to find them was to search for black authors (which is also a problem... why would black booktubers be the only ones reviewing black authors?)
Now, since the movement took off, I have discovered so many new voices, but we need this momentum to continue. More conversations like this video! More representation! More support for each other! More making space for marginalized communities!
@Adobe Adobe I watch plenty of white book reviewers because they are easy to find, but I like diversity so I'm giving my tip on how I found it... Let me save your time. If you're looking for a cyber debate, you won't find it with me. Life is too stressful to waste time with that these days.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this video!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ We need to hear and support ALL black voices!
i love you SO MUCH for this, Ariel! i'm not a creator, but i have been an audience member of booktube going back to 2014. i've honestly felt hurt by the silence of so many of the large content creators that i have followed for all these years. i'm never NOT aware of the likelihood that some of my favorite people would probably never engage with me in-person. that's just the reality of being a big, fuzzy-faced black man. but the silence of so many prominent booktubers has really made me feel like maybe i have just been trespassing this whole time. like i'm really not welcome here. like i'm a stowaway who is only safe so long as i remain silent and invisible. THANK YOU for showing up for us. it's healing to my soul.
gosh, thank you so much for your comment
Thank you for using your platform to have this conversation.
I really enjoyed their input and the conversation happening
I appreciate this conversation. We need to keep having it as we go forward.
This was really illumating. I have a much more diverse subscription list now. It's just a shame that I didn't have that before. TH-cam's algorithm doesn't even recommend black creators. That's a shame.
@Adobe Adobe I have not. I just have more options. And I'm a person of colour myself in case you weren't aware.
What I was waiting forr!!! I love Francina Simone, she was an immediate follow after just one of her videos. She tells it how it is
This was such a great dialog and I appreciate so much Ariel that you gave both Francina and Cristina Marie the space to just talk so we could all listen and you never interrupted. Great interview on your part and both Francina and Cristina Marie's!!!
Also, I'm so beyond stoked for Francina's book!!!! Can't wait to purchase it, read it, and support her!
I really enjoyed watching this conversation happen. thank you so much christina and francina for you emotional labour!!! will be reading those books asap
This was very illuminating. As a BIPOC person, I have been very disappointed at the silence of some of the bigger booktubers. I have been unsubscribing from those content creators who are complicit and remain silent in the face of injustice. Thank you for amplifying black voices and for speaking up. Also, I love Francina Simone so much! She’s one of my favorite youtubers!! I am so excited for her new book, Smash it!!!! ❤️
Thank you so much to Francina and Christina Marie for taking the time to open up and share their experiences and insights and for educating once again for free! thank you Ariel for using your platform, would love to see these conversations keep happening with other creators and authors ❤️ please keep it going!
Such a great video! Thank you so much for amplifying black voices and giving us this video. 💛
This whole video blew me away. I love THUG, but that can't be the only black story we talk about. I didn't realize how apparent that type of story that was until now. This is why hearing from different people is so important. When I first saw the movie Freedom Writers, I thought it was revolutionary, but someone pointed out that it was a White Savior story. That changed my whole perspective on the movie (for the better). Understanding and growing out of one's own ignorance is so important, especially with the Black Lives Matter movement.
I love The Artisan Geek! It's really hard to find booktube channels that don't focus on YA and fantasy, but they talk about lots of genres including classics. I love classics specifically from women and poc, and I've gotten great recs from their channel!! also their fits are super cute always
Thank you for sharing this conversation with us. I really enjoyed following this discussion!
Thank you for doing what you all do!!! This was an amazing listen!
Thank you so much to all participants for taking time to give this content to us. I am so appreciative of your insight and work. Such a fantastic conversation and much needed reminder of what work lies ahead. Thank you💜
I love hearing Christina's pov because it feels like someone spoke out my exact thoughts! Thank you for sharing this conversation~
The links to their individual channels are switched in the description box btw.
I like this. I've never heard of you two, but you've gained a new subscriber! Thank you guys for giving your perspective, it's so needed, and thank you for facilitating this Ariel
This was great. I’d love to see more of this
I think the key to understanding is through emotion. we cant understand specific experiences but if someone adds, this situation made me feel hurt, judged, happy, we understand those emotions even if we don't understand the source. I think this is the most powerful. we all understand feelings!
I loved this so much!! Loved hearing Christina and Francina's perspectives and insight. Thank you all for this
Thank you so much to all of you, Christina, Francina an Ariel for that discussion. It was very interesting! As I'm a freelancer working mostly in literature and culture, it was also very helpfull to bring the reflexion further and to figure out how to be more inclusive in the book industry/community.
Great video and so many interesting points of discussion. Thanks for getting together to do this girls. We need to see it and discuss it and keep listening. Xxx
This wholeeeeee conversation was so good. Thank you for sharing and being so open and honest.
This was such an interesting watch. Thank you for organising this. I feel like it's so important to hear about others experiences and how to learn and better myself a d others from this.
Appreciate the BookCon conversation about how demanding labor but not valuing with coins is not okay. That panel was so important and to not do anything this year is just rude. Thanks for using your platform to uplift this conversation, Ariel.
Thank you for such an interesting video. Thank you for sharing your experience.
I absolutely enjoyed listening to this conversation and the different points y’all made. ♥️
This was really helpful, the world needs more conversations like these
Amazing video! Thanks for using your platform to amplify BLM and black booktubers
Love this idea! I hope you invite other booktubers to continue talking about the topic.
a heartwarming conversation, thanks guys. i learned a bunch of concepts in the American society. I'm from Africa where we have totally different standards that may shock you!
There is a new feature on TH-cam that allows you to integrate the time stamps into the progress bar of the video, just FYI in case you didn’t know yet 👍 way to go managing this complex recording
I thought I'd done it! I had saved it wrong 🤦🏽♀️ it's up now!!
Yes, loved this well done all three ladies! A really great the discussion and hosted really well with great questions and it's great to see this continuation and that's not just a sporadic movement as representation is so important! You ladies are an inspiration!!
I would like to see more discussions like this. It was great to hear different perspectives.
This is incredible!
Really loved this conversation so much ❤️
I truly love this, Ariel 🤍 thank you.
Thank you so much for this! I love how Christina Marie touched on why can't Black people talk about sci-fi or anything other than diversity. Keep up the good work :)
this video was extremely interesting! Thank you to remind me always that the world I thought I was living in doen't exist yet. we have to keep talking about it
Francina is an old favorite, but I've never seen a video by Christina before. I'm going to head over to her channel and get to know her more, but first take from this is that she seems like such a beautiful person. She talked so much about how happy she was about things being helpful for OTHER PEOPLE, and the selflessness is amazing.
How might a white person who is trying to educate him/herself, who wants to be better informed, who wants to fight his/her own ignorance and bigotry and DO BETTER, reconcile him/herself with the bigotry and ignorance of his/her older family members?
"You are what you eat" is SUCH a good way to describe it. If you're only exposing yourself to people who are exactly like you, you're eating the same thing every single day, it gets boring, you need to diversify your palate, and eat outside what you are used to, watch outside of your own life.
amazing videoo but just a heads up the links to their channels are mixed up in the description ;^)
OOPS! Thanks for noticing! I fixed it!
This was such a great conversation! I loved watching it. I was just wondering where the links to the books mentioned are? I can't find them, but I am very interested in checking them out!
Loved this
I always remind people that Book Outlet is a Canadian company. Canada is not a utopia, racism is alive and thriving in this country and I'm sick of people praising us for being the good guys.
Loved this!!!!!!!
This was great 👏
This was a great conversation! I have a genuine innocent question. I have noticed that because I have been online for so long, that the algorithm isn’t promoting content that is different than people who look similar to me. How can I find booktubers, books, authors, that enjoy similar genres that I do but are BIPOC? Is it offensive to add BIPOC or black to my searches? (I am still learning please forgive if I used vocab incorrectly, but I appreciate your grace and advice)
I’ve had the same problem. TH-cam seemed to think I only wanted to watch white people, so I simply wasn’t shown POC booktubers.
There’s the black booktuber tag going around these days. In this tag they recommend other black booktubers as well. Or search being black on booktube, there’s a bunch there as well.
Happy searching 🌱
I am a POC and I've had the same problem! I blame youtube and their search function... but some of my favorite booktubers, in addition to the ladies in this video are StarlahReads, Mina Reads, Bowties & Books, LEFT ON READ, thisstoryaintover and NayaReadsandSmiles.
Also, you can check out the channels they are subscribed to for more ☺
Love this
Loved it!
i loved francina simone's comment about books and reading during this time. i feel like one big factor of how books are important for BLM is that these conversations can happen while these Black authors are getting PAID. so many BIPOC individuals struggle with unpaid emotional, intellectual labour that the least we can all do is read before we stop someone in a grocery store while they're trying to get their almond milk, lmao. i pre-ordered smash it for my library too.
Ariel, there's a correction which needs to be made in the description - the links to Francina and Christina's channels have got switched.
Since the most recent BLM movement, I took a closer look at my Goodreads to see how diverse my reading was, b/c I thought it was, but it was tragically not so. Only 5% of books I read were by non-white authors. _Hang my head in shame. Pick it up and look for more diverse books to read._ And since I don't go for tragic books in general, it was really hard for me to find stories that were just everyday life experiences from diverse perspectives. Finally, I found some titles online, mostly romance, and went to the bookstore... and had another really hard time finding those authors on the shelves. No wonder my previous reading was 95% white - that's what's on the shelves when I go to the bookstore. Sad. But now I know better so I'm putting in the effort to do better.
I loved ittt
I’m getting into reading black writers more and I’m really enjoying it! Please drop some suggestions down (I started off reading American marriage - and I loved it) ✨👏🏾 I really wanna support my fellow melanin beauty’s.
Omg yes ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
first! ❤️❤️
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would love to know the editing details around this video call
Well! I recorded my own video and my own audio and a screen recording of our call. Francina filmed her own video which cut out part way so I only had about 50% of that and 50% of her audio. Christina Marie recorded her video and her sound but because she wasn’t wearing headphones her sound also recorded an echoing version of me and Francina. I was able to use that audio and my screen recorded video to make up for the big chunk of missing Francina! But then it would vary throughout the video how much of her echoing audio I could fix. SO A BIG MESS! But I learned some good stuff. This call was over zoom but for some reason it only recorded the first 32 seconds and then no audio or visuals 🤦🏽♀️
@@ArielBissett thank you!
Alright I’m back lol (I’m just recording a zoom call soon and love, aesthetically, how this one turned out) what did you edit the call in? Final Cut?
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Just please don't subscribe to black youtubers (or any, actually) just for the sake of diversifying if you are not going to watch the content regularly. TH-cam has a system and if you are subscribed to people and don't watch their videos it actually notifies TH-cam that you don't like that content and it will end up hurting them more. Subscribe to people that you actually like and that you actually want to watch, don't have them there just as a token, it's not going to help anyone and you will end up causing them more harm.
I love your channel but found this to be very divisive in some ways. I'm always willing to listen to facts and information, but won't have someone telling me how I should think.
This didn't age well
Agreed
Why's that? I don't understand 🤷♀️
everything's always about race
we never wanted it to be but that’s the dark truth about the world, it’s not rainbows and unicorns. this shit is happening. and it’s sad.
@@nini-he8uy BLM continued to make race an issue and purposely divided people's.
i loved this conversation so much 💓
Thanks, Monica 💕