ALL EYES ON RAFAH

❤️💐 Happy Book Birthday to WHAT’S EATING JACKIE OH? (Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 Crown Books for Young Readers) by Patricia Park, whom we were thrilled to have at last year’s Kweli Color of Children’s Literature Conference!

☀️ Come meet your summer writing goals with us! Our six-week *virtual* workshop for adult fiction writers of color led by Kweli Journal Publisher, Laura Pegram, starts MAY 13. #BIPOC short story writers & novelists at all levels welcome! Register: tinyurl.com/5n6vutu4

Celebrating a DOUBLE BOOK BIRTHDAY and BRAND NEW SERIES launch today!!

My book EMMA MCKENNA FULL OUT and ROHAN MURTHY HAS A PLAN by 📚🧁🔅 Rajani LaRocca 💗⚾️🧬 are the first titles in our new multi author series THE KIDS IN MRS. Z'S CLASS! Learn more here: hachettebookgroup.com/landing-page/t…

❤️💐 Happy Book Birthday to THE KIDS IN MRS. Z’S CLASS: ROHAN MURTHY HAS A PLAN (Algonquin Young Readers) by Kweli Journal #kidlit Color of Children’s Literature Conference faculty 📚🧁🔅 Rajani LaRocca 💗⚾️🧬!

Join @sonjacherrypaul in this FREE webinar on constructing an antiracist reading classroom. Move beyond representation to liberation in your teaching methods. Expand worldviews, build empathy, and empower students to be changemakers. 💪🌍 ow.ly/FLSf50Rr8Ri

🎉🙌🏿Happy #BookBirthday 🙌🏿🎉

📖I HEARD: An American Journey by Jaha Nailah Avery, Steffi Walthall Steffi is working on books 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇾🇪, Charlesbridge Publishing Charlesbridge

Congrats!!!

#OurStoriesMatter

Toni Morrison said, “The world does not become raceless or will not become unracialized by assertion. The act of enforcing racelessness in literary discourse is itself a racial act.” 1/2

We have six days left in our campaign and are 35% away from our goal! Anything helps! indiegogo.com/projects/laven…

Thank you so much Kobo Scholastic please tell me it's because my book is awesome and not because the month is May and my name is Maysoon 😺🪩🧿

☀️ Come meet your summer writing goals with us! Our six-week *virtual* workshop for adult fiction writers of color led by Kweli Journal Publisher, Laura Pegram, starts MAY 13. #BIPOC short story writers & novelists at all levels welcome! Register: tinyurl.com/5n6vutu4

Happiest of book birthdays to BUILT TO LAST (Alfred A. Knopf Young Readers), the latest picture book illustrated by Dan Santat and written by longtime Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference faculty, Minh Lê 💥🥳 Get your copy: bookshop.org/p/books/built-…

We want to introduce you to some young poets in Gaza.

Through the genocide, they have not stopped writing.

Most have been made homeless.

All want to escape.

They need all of our help, so we want to tell you about them. 🧵

How are we already half way through this book tour? Thank you for welcoming me into your communities and sharing your stories with me!

Next up: I’ll be visiting Boston, Rhode Island, Virginia, Philly, and South Carolina!

Please share with your friends in those cities/states.

We need more people who talk about book bans and censorship to be outraged at this.

people's uni at stanford. power & love to these students in solidarity with palestinians everywhere.

'We Palestinians are already on the other side—surviving, persisting, and insisting on life in the face of our own vanishing.' -D. Attalah & S. Ihmoud
massreview.org/node/11753

I understand that defending PEN America's stance requires folks to have a mean, nasty, ignorant, irrational villain to attack.

Bc they can't find such a villain, they portray us as such, but all we ever did was ask, 'Why can't you defend Palestinian writers/journalists too?'

Israel still plans on invading Rafah. Despite the ICJ decision, the UNSC res, the arms embargos, the high level resignations, dissent memos, & uni uprisings, Israel plans on invading the last standing city in #Gaza . This is colonial impunity & Israel is the death of itself.

I haven’t drawn on paper for the last 6 books and I’ve been contemplating drawing my next graphic novel the old fashioned way. It was fun scratching lines on paper. I used a green Col-erase pencil

This. All day, every day, this is all I can think about.

Please please support Gaza Poets Society as much as you can.