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Danielle Monique is amazing and her story with SCBWI needs to be heard
djolder.bsky.social Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Jan 4
The Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) planned to put out a statement supporting Israel while it commits genocide. Danielle Monique spoke up and was fired for insubordination. We have to do better in the kid lit community.
A call to action: Our organizing sister Danielle Monique has posted this brave and insightful essay on her experience working at the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). We salute her courage and honesty. KEY POINTS INCLUDE: —SCBWI leadership planned to put out a post supporting Israel as it was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. —After Daniel Monqiue spoke about this and other forms of zionism and racism at the org, SCBWI fired her for “insubordination.” — The CA Civil Rights Board has opened a case on SCBWI related to this While this is not a call for a full boycott of SCBWI, we urge members of the kid lit community to consider how we use our platforms, who we uplift, what messages we're sending with our words and actions. SPEAK OUT! Over a year ago the children of Gaza held a press conference to beg the world to stop the genocide against them. The world, including SCBWI and PEN America, ignored them. But we don't have to. SPEAK OUT! We believe the kid lit community needs to have an open, honest dialogue about organizations that represent us openly supporting genocide, including the murder of tens of thousands of children, and internally punishing pro-Palestinian voices. We cannot claim to be on the side of humanity, or children, or freedom, on the one hand and support all the opposite things with our actions. When we continue to invest our energy, time, money, creativity, and names to organizations that support genocide, we deepen our own complicity and help whitewash the ongoing atrocities We believe we can do better, as authors, illustrators, readers, publishers, a community, we can do better. We can choose where we give our resources, how we speak out, how we respond to silence and silencing.
October 11, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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The Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) planned to put out a statement supporting Israel while it commits genocide. Danielle Monique spoke up and was fired for insubordination. We have to do better in the kid lit community.
A call to action: Our organizing sister Danielle Monique has posted this brave and insightful essay on her experience working at the Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). We salute her courage and honesty. KEY POINTS INCLUDE: —SCBWI leadership planned to put out a post supporting Israel as it was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. —After Daniel Monqiue spoke about this and other forms of zionism and racism at the org, SCBWI fired her for “insubordination.” — The CA Civil Rights Board has opened a case on SCBWI related to this While this is not a call for a full boycott of SCBWI, we urge members of the kid lit community to consider how we use our platforms, who we uplift, what messages we're sending with our words and actions. SPEAK OUT! Over a year ago the children of Gaza held a press conference to beg the world to stop the genocide against them. The world, including SCBWI and PEN America, ignored them. But we don't have to. SPEAK OUT! We believe the kid lit community needs to have an open, honest dialogue about organizations that represent us openly supporting genocide, including the murder of tens of thousands of children, and internally punishing pro-Palestinian voices. We cannot claim to be on the side of humanity, or children, or freedom, on the one hand and support all the opposite things with our actions. When we continue to invest our energy, time, money, creativity, and names to organizations that support genocide, we deepen our own complicity and help whitewash the ongoing atrocities We believe we can do better, as authors, illustrators, readers, publishers, a community, we can do better. We can choose where we give our resources, how we speak out, how we respond to silence and silencing.
January 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Please please let the ceasefire last 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
October 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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As we head into year-end here’s a reminder for anyone who needs it:

You have done more than enough this year 💛
November 30, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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