September 18, 2013

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Breaking Bias: Inside Maureen Johnson’s ‘Coverflip’ Challenge

Created by Mellie Ryan.

Can you imagine what the covers of classic literary works written by men might look like if those books had been reclassified as “by and for women”? How would the designs be different—and how would that impact how we perceive those books? These are the questions YA author Maureen Johnson posed to her fans in “Coverflip,” a challenge to gendered book covers that limit their audiences.