I am moved by the integrity of the authors withdrawing from prize lists to protest PEN America's refusal to name the genocide in Gaza and failure to meet their stated aims of protecting free speech and Palestinian writers. Here are their books to buy bookshop.org/wishlists/7166…

'The internet is forev-' NO IT ISN'T

MURDERBOT quote of the day: 'Personal relationships are perplexing, and I often find myself at a loss for how to navigate them.'

2024 #NBAwards Young People’s Literature judges: Rose Brock (Rose Brock, Ph.D), Huda Fahmy (@yesimhotinthis), Leah Johnson (@byleahjohnson), Mike Jung (@Mike_Jung), Brein Lopez (Chair)

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.—Grace Paley

“Allow me to give you some advice from the heart: don’t give up art, and even give yourself over to it even more.

To live alone may well make your life too drear for endurance.

There is but one cure, one refuge, for that woe: art, creative activity.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1880

Bad take. Claudette Colvin was an unwed teen mom and *the NAACP, the organization* decided her case wasn’t the right one to push in the public eye due to respectability and what it would put her through. There were also other cases! They were strategically selective.

I'm in my first Authors Against Book Bans leadership meeting and learned it is up to 1100 members, which DWARFS all the one-person faux-grassroots book banning fake organizations in the US put together.

Authors, sign up to help further put them to shame.

authorsagainstbookbans.com

The Israeli government has been completely, 100% clear—on television, in the press, in official statements—that their goal is to get rid of every single Palestinian in Gaza, either by killing them or by forcing them out. The fact that we still need to debate this is exhausting.

We have a moral obligation to speak up and speak out about the horrors happening in Palestine, Sudan, and Congo.

We have a moral obligation, as American tax payers, to say stop sending our money to slaughter Palestinians.

People mistake your cause for winning them over. The mission is to de-weaponize their disagreement.

🍎 EDUCATOR GIVEAWAY! 📚

To celebrate the paperback release of YOU ARE HERE, we're giving away *two* classroom sets. Winners will also be eligible for a classroom visit with Ellen 오 Oh and other contributing authors!

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I think 2024 is the year when I wrap up my excessive-use-of-social-media-brain in a cocoon, dissolve it into a glob of primordial ooze, and release it back into the world as a reading-real-ink-on-paper-books brain. It's overdue. I have a LOT of unread books

YOU ARE HERE: CONNECTING FLIGHTS is now available in paperback! We are so proud of the hard work that went this book. Run, don't walk, to your local bookstore to pick up a copy. Ellen 오 Oh Linda Sue Park SAYGAY

2 self-immolations. A 45-day-old baby starved to death, younger than this genocide. A journalist pulled alive from rubble after 4 days. شهيد, as in martyr, as in witness. We are all witnesses. The reckoning w the self is at a cellular level. If we cannot be brave now, then when.

i am talking to a girl about my age right now. we have a lot in common. we’re readers, we’re newly married, we love life. the difference? i am safe in the home in iowa, and she is under bombs in gaza.

remember, palestinians are not numbers. they are us.

Catch the Oscar nominated short documentary 'ABCs of Book Banning' for free on YouTube this week.

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There's reason to believe my standing in the field of children's literature is crawling steadily upward despite my lack of prolificity in creating the actual books, which is weird AF, but it's a good kind of weird, you know, onward to weird glory

They absolutely did call BLM domestic terrorists.

apnews.com/article/police…

This article erases the voices of our communities.

The majority of Jewish Democrats want a ceasefire. Thousands of Jewish voters have been pouring into the street alongside Palestinians.

There is no political bind. Biden just needs to make a decision: humanity or genocide?