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Tracing the Trail of Tears: FULL STOP
9.9.19: Afternoon: On Twitter today, I read critiques of these blogposts that resulted in deep learnings for me. I’m turning the posts back on so that everyone can see them, including the problematic content. (These notes today are in reverse order, so if you want to read...
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No Longer Quiet: The List
THE ARTICLE Early this year, the tidal wave of the #MeToo movement reached the shores of children’s books. As a result, SCBWI has been doing some essential work examining our own house, including an amended policy that addresses “all harassment, intimidation, and discrimination...
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#AllOurChildren
In a December 2016 column entitled, “Notes from the Resistance,” journalist and author Summer Brennan observes that it’s impossible to respond to all the current threats to what we hold dear: “What we must do, instead, is to find our particular hills...
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""The literature of America should reflect the children of America." "
—Lucille Clifton, Pulitzer Prize Nominated Poet