Own Voices
Proper noun
Meaning
Own Voices
(often used attributively) A literary movement centering books (particularly children's and young-adult fiction) about marginalized people written by authors of the same group.
Examples
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.