Shake Up Your Celebrations is a campaign that highlights books featuring a variety of holidays, traditions, and celebrations. Many of these holidays are underrepresented in classroom and library programming, which often centers around Christmas and other Christian holidays. Shake Up Your Shelves and build a more inclusive bookcase!

I was a very fortunate kid growing up in the Bay Area, surrounded by a variety of different cultures that I learned about firsthand. I grew up meeting actual members of the Black Panthers, visiting The African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO) blocks away from home, and attending the annual Black Cowboy Parade. I learned about the land that I lived on and the various tribes that lived there before me, like the Emeryville and Berkeley Shellmounds that belonged to the Ohlone tribe of Natives Americans. The Bay Area is also home to some of the largest populations of Asian American and Hispanic communities, which I’ve had the honor of working and learning alongside in various art groups.

The one community that I didn’t learn much about growing up was my own Arab American / Muslim community...