Laura Gao

Oct 27, 2024 | cultofpedagogy.com | Kwame Alexander |Jas Hammonds |Laura Gao |Vítor Martins

Listen to the interview with Julia Torres, Cicely Lewis, and Julie Stivers (transcript):Sponsored by Alpaca and Scholastic Magazines+This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? Books are one of the most powerful ways to learn about others and ourselves.

May 29, 2024 | asiasociety.org | Laura Gao |Rumi Hara |GB Tran

As part of Asia Society Texas' online learning platform, Adventures of Asia is designed to be a highly engaging way for students to learn about Asian and Asian American cultures, history, and life. The interactive webcomics website features a collection of 14 original stories set in the U.S., China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam.

Sep 5, 2023 | wunc.org | Laura Gao

In 2020, the graphic artist and memoirist Laura Gao, who was born in Wuhan but came to the U.S. with her family when she was a girl, wrote about a trip she had planned to her birthplace to see her beloved grandparents. COVID caused her to cancel the trip. We wondered — how are her grandparents now faring? She checked in her with her grandma via WeChat. When I call my grandma, Nainai, I hear two voices crooning their love for each other.

Jun 9, 2023 | slj.com | Kristen Mai Giang |Xixi Tian |Ann Liang |Laura Gao

EveryLibrary and GLAAD teamed up to offer practical advice for fighting censorship in your community; the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA) announces its 2023 Best Book Awards; and publishing news from Baker & Taylor and Nosy Crow in this edition of News Bites. EveryLibrary and GLAAD partnered to create a playbook, “Book Bans: A guide for community response and action,” to help communities fight against book bans that are overwhelmingly targeting LGBTQIA+ stories and authors.