Not Your Sidekick/Unpacking the Attempted Coup

This week Maggie and Harmony become socio-political commentators as they attempt to make sense of the attempted coup in Washington D.C. that occurred on Jan. 6, 2021. They talk about these events through major themes that occur in the book Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee. 
In this episode:
https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2015/may/06/why-ya-books-about-politics-election-always-dystopian
https://dystopianyaliterature.weebly.com/common-themes.html
https://bookriot.com/what-is-speculative-fiction/
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/what-is-speculative-fiction-defining-and-understanding-the-different-genres-of-speculative-fiction#subgenres-of-speculative-fiction
https://bookriot.com/10-ways-post-election-america-is-a-dystopian-ya-novel/
https://bookriot.com/bring-back-dystopian-ya/
https://www.verywellmind.com/effects-of-collective-trauma-5071346
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/collective-trauma-and-disaster-stress-research-publicly-available.html
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/lifting-the-veil-trauma/202005/what-is-collective-trauma
What we’re reading:
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780316422048
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
https://bookshop.org/a/9908/9780525620778
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