Dia Reeves' Bleeding Violet can be in the intersectional column. She has a disability (bipolar disorder).
The spreadsheet asks, about the Louise Erdrich Birchbark House series, "Yes (Angeline, Bizheen, Deydey, Fishtail, Nokomis, Old Tallow, Omakayas, Pinch, Yellow Kettle) ? Can someone who's read the books check this list? I think all of these characters are Ojibwa but I'm not sure." This is correct. The characters are all Ojibwa. Technically, Deydey is biracial (Ojibwa/French) and several of the characters are his children, but he identifies firmly as Ojibwa.
The spreadsheet notes about Malinda Lo's Ash, "No (? Author notes characters are Asian in her head but little to no textual evidence)". This is correct. The author is Chinese-American and she has a couple of blog posts about how she left the characters open, how it's a fantasy world in which "Asia" per se would not be meaningful but she left physical description open, and there are a few cultural notes she says would only be visible to anthropologists.
Since you have that notes column there, it might be worth mentioning that A Great and Terrible Beauty has a terrible canonical presentation of race, and anyone who wants to read a new book in order to get a new chromatic character should be prepared for much rage.
I'm a little bit confused about The Book Thief. The book takes place in Nazi Germany. There is a secret Jew, and Death, but I'm not sure who is being seen as chromatic. I mean, in the context of Nazi Germany Jews certainly count as chromatic but I assume that the challenge doesn't want to open up to all "Jews in anti-Semitic countries/times" sources.
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian should probably be intersectional for disability. Junior has a host of issues.
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The spreadsheet asks, about the Louise Erdrich Birchbark House series, "Yes (Angeline, Bizheen, Deydey, Fishtail, Nokomis, Old Tallow, Omakayas, Pinch, Yellow Kettle) ? Can someone who's read the books check this list? I think all of these characters are Ojibwa but I'm not sure." This is correct. The characters are all Ojibwa. Technically, Deydey is biracial (Ojibwa/French) and several of the characters are his children, but he identifies firmly as Ojibwa.
The spreadsheet notes about Malinda Lo's Ash, "No (? Author notes characters are Asian in her head but little to no textual evidence)". This is correct. The author is Chinese-American and she has a couple of blog posts about how she left the characters open, how it's a fantasy world in which "Asia" per se would not be meaningful but she left physical description open, and there are a few cultural notes she says would only be visible to anthropologists.
Since you have that notes column there, it might be worth mentioning that A Great and Terrible Beauty has a terrible canonical presentation of race, and anyone who wants to read a new book in order to get a new chromatic character should be prepared for much rage.
I'm a little bit confused about The Book Thief. The book takes place in Nazi Germany. There is a secret Jew, and Death, but I'm not sure who is being seen as chromatic. I mean, in the context of Nazi Germany Jews certainly count as chromatic but I assume that the challenge doesn't want to open up to all "Jews in anti-Semitic countries/times" sources.
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian should probably be intersectional for disability. Junior has a host of issues.