{"id":14070,"date":"2015-03-04T17:16:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T17:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/bitch-media-the-project-that-was-lowriders-in\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:04:59","slug":"bitch-media-the-project-that-was-lowriders-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/bitch-media-the-project-that-was-lowriders-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14070 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/bitch-media-the-project-that-was-lowriders-in\/attachment\/14071\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ng2wo8N4tk1ssw0m8o1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/bitch-media-the-project-that-was-lowriders-in\/attachment\/14072\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ng2wo8N4tk1ssw0m8o2_r1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/bitch-media-the-project-that-was-lowriders-in\/attachment\/14073\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ng2wo8N4tk1ssw0m8o3_r1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/bitch-media.tumblr.com\/post\/104893816322\/the-project-that-was-lowriders-in-space-began-when\">bitch-media<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The project that was\u00a0<i>Lowriders in Space<\/i>\u00a0began when author Cathy Camper started thinking about the need for more diverse books for kids. In 2005, Camper was working three part-time jobs, including a gig doing outreach at low-income housing for the local library. The kids who would show up to check out books were a multi-cultural bunch, many of them fluent in both English and Spanish. The library had books in Spanish and books in English, but not many that blended the two languages in a way that reflected the Spanglish of her patrons. Camper noticed that they also didn\u2019t have a lot of books for kids that starred characters who weren\u2019t white and suburban. Of best-selling young adult books, only about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.diversityinya.com\/2014\/04\/diversity-in-2013-new-york-times-young-adult-bestsellers\/\">15 percent<\/a>\u00a0have main characters who are people of color. Camper started to think about how cool it would be to have a bilingual book on hand that these kids and their parents would want to devour.<\/p>\n<p><i>Keep reading\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bitchmagazine.org\/post\/who-could-say-no-to-a-bilingual-comic-called-lowriders-in-space\">Sarah Mirk\u2019s review of \u201cLowriders in Space\u201d<\/a>\u00a0at BitchMedia.org.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bitch-media: The project that was\u00a0Lowriders in Space\u00a0began when author Cathy Camper started thinking about the need for more diverse books for kids. In 2005, Camper was working three part-time jobs, including a gig doing outreach at low-income housing for the local library. 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