Liar cover changed for paperback edition

[unusualmusic_lj_archive]

New Liar Cover I am still pissed. That hair is not nappy and the girl is lighter skinned than in the book, but...at least she is actually fucking black now? Fuck this shit to hell. I am tired of saying "at least".





Anyway, go buy the book please. Its supposed to be a good read, and we need to prove their fucked up perceptions wrong so that we can force them to actually get it right sometime in the future.

Comments

Not Happy

[avalon's willow (from livejournal.com)]

Said So.
http://seeking-avalon.blogspot.com/2009/08/labalestier-new-cover-not-good-enough.html

Re: Not Happy

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

left my comment too. the more i think about it, the pissier I get.

Re: Not Happy

[avalon's willow (from livejournal.com)]

I am also not impressed with the possibly Latino Neal Shusterman and cultural appropriation and DISRESPECT of Dreadlocks.

Re: Not Happy

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

I am from a middle class family. Where people who wore dreadlocks were considered nasty naggers (pronounced neigh-gers). Who could go to prison, not get a job, be discriminated against by every body else, whites dividing and conquering by infecting the rest of us with hatred for the "nasty hair" which my dad still maintained until recently, and probably even now, is not properly washed. For following their religion. Which was, of course, opposed to white colonialist bullshit. I was not too happy with the idea of just seeing it as a style, though I am getting more comfortable when it is worn by african descended peoples. I didn't know the Hindus wore it as well. Thats fine. But white people? After all the damage that they have done? Need to take their rapacious hands OFF THAT HAIRSTYLE.

Re: Not Happy

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

hold on. shusterman is of color? really? Between the fuckery about "unstyled" dreadlocks and this, we are gonna need to have a talk about this, aren't we? And when we're done we're gonna need to sit the illustrator down as well. And the publisher. Cause I am DONE giving allowances.