{"id":26577,"date":"2018-07-31T08:21:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=26577"},"modified":"2018-07-31T08:21:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:21:38","slug":"muslim-girls-making-change-writing-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.publishersweekly.com\/blogs\/shelftalker\/?p=26577","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Girls Making Change\u2014and Writing Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Vermont doesn’t win many awards for diversity, having one of the most homogenous populations in the country, but we have some amazing activists in our tiny state.\u00a0A couple of years ago, a group of\u00a0teen poets in Burlington began performing\u00a0at slam poetry events,\u00a0making a national name for themselves with their passionate words. This\u00a0group of articulate, funny, strong, social-justice-minded teens call\u00a0themselves Muslim Girls Making Change<\/a>, or MGMC, and they’ve traveled to Washington, D.C., been written about in the Huffington Post<\/a>, and are now represented in (and on the cover of!) the Rad Women series’ newest addition, Rad Girls Can: Stories of Bold, Brave, and Brilliant Young Women<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Kate Schatz\u00a0and Miriam Klein\u00a0Stahl (Ten Speed Press). Look! There they are in the upper left corner. Four\u00a0fabulously rad girls. In June of this year, they\u00a0won a National Endowment of the Arts\u00a0Human and Civil Rights Award<\/a> alongside Michelle Obama. (That award came the day before courts upheld the Muslim travel ban. We still have such a long way to go.)
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\nOne of\u00a0the best chroniclers of\u00a0the\u00a0multitude of Vermonters and their stories, Eva Sollberger<\/a>, did a terrific introduction of MGMC in her video blog, Stuck in Vermont, in November 2016*:
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