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Oct 29, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Sometimes the reviewer seems to be working off a checklist of all the things that were important and personal to the author when she wrote the book. This is one of those times, and lordy did it make me smile.
There's one thing that this generally lovely review highlights particularly well, and I think it's well worth my seconding, given the number of my followers who are writers:
She's absolutely right about school sex ed in American being trash. That's not a problem YA novels can fix, but it does make honest depictions of sexuality in your work even more important.
And maybe this will help you get your #NaNoWriMo goal, so there's that too.

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Feb 2, 2022
Bans go after books, but in this wave it’s clear truth in the discourse about schools and libraries is as much or more the target.

If challengers talk enough about “age appropriate” books for high school students, people accept that age appropriateness is somehow science.
If they call books “pornographic” loudly and often, some people will start asking about the porn in school libraries.

If they talk about books “grooming” young readers every chance they get, some will accept that grooming is a thing books do.
If they say librarians make collection development decisions based only on journal reviews with no way of knowing what’s in the books often enough, it starts to seem true.

If they misrepresent school libraries as K-12 free-for-alls over and over again, some will believe it.
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Feb 1, 2022
I find this letter sickeningly disingenuous. Out of Darkness does contain these depictions. It is also 400 pages long and narratively quite sophisticated. Like all novels, it immediately eliminates whole swaths of readers who are not ready for it. This how books work.
Meanwhile, the parent seems to believe that a kid picks up a book, somehow encounters a depiction they’re not ready for, and is harmed. A parent is entitled to this belief, but no one is obliged to pretend that because she believes a nonsensical thing, her wish is their command.
There’s nothing in this letter that even approaches an argument for her having a role in making library curation decisions. Instead, this document is an argument against the idea of libraries in schools. I suspect she’d be fine with that.
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Jan 27, 2022
In light of a Tennessee district banning MAUS, I'm sharing the greatest two pages ever written and drawn about the importance of children's literature and protecting children's access to books, starring Art Spiegelman and Maurice Sendak. From the New Yorker, September 27, 1997.
I have turned to this comic as a compass for what I believe in as an editor for a very long time (it's been framed over my desk for almost a decade and if I ever got a tattoo, it'd be panel #8). It's no less orienting as a parent navigating the limits of "protection."
Protection from history, protection from the other, protection from the intricacies of the spectrum of human identity—all of these "protections" inevitably extract a toll on the protected and, most acutely, on those children cast outside the walls of the "quaint and succulent."
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Sep 30, 2020
Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. Trump is not childlike. THREAD.
What happened last night—what's happened regularly for an entire presidency—is not a toddler's temper tantrum, and it doesn't resemble one. To call it that is to reinforce the ongoing delusion that we have a problem with one immature, erratic, anomalous man.
In the real world, you will find many, many more white adult men who regularly resemble Trump than you'll ever find children. The rage. The incuriosity. The cruelty. The reflexive dishonesty. These qualities are abundant somewhere in America, and it's sure as hell not children.
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Sep 29, 2020
“Graphic novels are like ice cream. You can read them after you read prose books.” Or so the 12-year-old’s English teacher reportedly said regarding what books he can pick for assignments.

LOOK. Virtual school is so hard. I want all the slack for teachers. But come on.
Can we not do this literary elitism bullshit now? In a virtual learning environment where you can’t put an alternative in a kid’s hand and support that redirection, why in the world would you tell a kid not to read something?
Are there teachers who are saying no verse novels? Is this a thing yet?
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Sep 28, 2020
THREAD. We're almost a month into virtual school, and it's really hard. Doing this for many more months feels impossible. The Trump tax story should be a reminder of *why* it feels this way. It's not impossible simply because virtual learning is inherently challenging.
It's fair to say fighting WWII in the Pacific was always going to be challenging. What would have made that difficult task impossible would have been refusing to spend the money to build insanely expensive aircraft carriers faster than any other country in the war.
If you think this is analogy is a stretch, I'm sorry, but I don't know how else to get you to understand the gravity of the situation.

We can repeal a tax cut, allocate hundreds of billions to support virtual learning in a serious way, or we can lose this war. It's that simple.
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