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Charlotte Sullivan Wild (she) 🏳️‍🌈♿
@cswild.bsky.social
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📚 Picture books!
💜 LOVE, VIOLET (Chua FSG)
🍎 THE AMAZING IDEA OF YOU (Lundquist, Bloomsbury)
✏️ former educator, bookseller, SCBWI RA
🌈2LGBTQIAP+ she/her
♿ ME/CFS

🌿 www.CharlotteSWild.com 🌿
📚 Repped by www.andreabrownlit.com/Team/analia
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Here's how I met Plymouth Congregational Church, which supported me personally (see below!), 2LGBTQIA+ and marginalized people generally, and reading freedom boldly during #MahmoudvTaylor. Organized religion is complicated for me, but I found love among these people. That gives me hope!
Rainbow-sparkle background with two girls at top for decoration and QR code. Lavender box with black and violet text: "From a thank-you letter to Plymouth Cong. Church: “I discovered Plymouth after I came out in the Minneapolis StarTribune in 2007. I’d left a faculty position at an Evangelical college and shocked my family. My friend suggested I might feel welcome at Plymouth. I did! The music, prayers, and messages of justice healed me when I thought I no longer had a religious home.” Same background with soft yellow box and black/ violet text: " From a thank-you letter to Plymouth Cong. Church: “Soon after, I fell in love with Tara, who was also coming out late in life, while in seminary to become a military chaplain. We had to hide our joy in public, but Plymouth was a true sanctuary. You were one of our few safe places. (I hope you forgave our 100-watt smiles and sappy handholding in those first days of new love!)” Same background with soft peach box and black/ violet text: From a thank-you letter to Plymouth Cong. Church: “Thank you for your part in our personal story and in our shared story of crafting a more loving, just society together. I wish you peace and courage for whatever is before you. Keep being light, keep being hope, keep being love in a troubled world.”
October 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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What a great chat with @katherinelocke.bsky.social & #GigiHoward of @drinksinthelibrary.bsky.social & @everylibrary.bsky.social !

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVTX...

Event Schedule: www.everylibrary.org/everylibrary...

#kidlit #lgbtqiakids
@mackidssl.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social
Background of glittery gold and an open book. Blue heading: "Finding Your Voice: LGBTQIA+ Picture Books" Red print: "Replay in bio" Blue rectangle with "Everylibrary live presents... Banned Books Week 2025. Finding Your Voice: Friendship, Love, and Identity with Charlotte Sullivan Wild and Katherine Locke, Hosted by Gigi Howard from Drinks in the Library. Tues. Oct. 7 at 7 PM EDT on EveryLibrary's Facebook and YouTube Live. Head shots of the authors. Wild: close of face with light skin, subtle smile, wavy long dark blond hair. Locke: Smiling with light skin, long brown hair over one shoulder in red sweater with water behind them. QR code. Similar design with decorative mauve heart in top corner and image of picture book Love, Violet in lower corner. Text in blue and red on soft gold box: “‘Book banning is about... holding up these myths that keep prejudice going. Prejudice depends on you not seeing the humanity of other people. You have to have stereotypes. You have to have lies [and] fear… Our stories do... the opposite. They humanize.’ Charlotte Sullivan Wild, author of Love, Violet” QR code. Similar design with three accept lines around the first line of text. Image of picture books What Are Your Words? on side. Yellow and white text on dark blue box: “‘[Diverse] books are for everybody. Everybody can identify with some piece of this book and learn something… and find common ground. That’s what stories do best. And that’s how we build a bigger community. That’s what I’m always trying to do with my books.’ Katherine Locke, author of What Are Your Words?” QR code
October 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Want to support #FReadom? For a short time, the book creators named in #MahmoudvTaylor are offering shirts, hoodies, & sweatshirts with art from @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social - to raise funds for @penamerica.bsky.social, who supported us during this case! #kidlit

www.customink.com/fundraising/...
Person with brown skin wearing a black shirt with a screened cartoon image of the 9 US Supreme Court justices each holding one of the picture books named in Mahmoud v. Taylor. In script: "SCOTUS Book Club" Person with light skin wearing a white sweatshirt with hands in a kangaroo pouch, with a screened cartoon image of the 9 US Supreme Court justices each holding one of the picture books named in Mahmoud v. Taylor. In script: "SCOTUS Book Club"
August 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Thanks @onceuponaban.bsky.social for offering time to discuss #MahmoudvTaylor!

www.onceuponaban.com/p/i-joyfully...

#kidlit @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social #lgbtqiakidlit #FReadom #Booksnotbans
Same style as previous slides. “the Supreme Court majority isn’t content to choose their own marriage type & respect other people’s legal freedoms. They’ve opted to erase LGBTQ+ children & families. LGBTQ+ existence offends them. LGBTQ+ joy angers them. My response? I JOYFULLY DISSENT. " Same style: . “It’s time to pivot from horror to positive action. Hate is loud, but love is stronger. Love is the reason for inclusive education. Love reminds us that, even on the hardest, angriest days, we belong to each other.”
June 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Thanks @onceuponaban.bsky.social for offering time to discuss #MahmoudvTaylor!

www.onceuponaban.com/p/i-joyfully...

#kidlit @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social #lgbtqiakidlit #FReadom #Booksnotbans
All 5 slides have crumpled foil background and text boxes in various shades of pinks, purples, and whiltes, with decorative hearts, QR codes, and "C.S. Wild, Once Upon a Ban." Slide 1 has the picture book cover for Love, Violet, and an author photo of a woman with long, dark blonde, wavy hair, light skin, slight smile, blue shirt. "I Joyfully Dissent: Author Charlotte Sullivan Wild on Mahmoud v. Taylor and Where We Go From Here. By Once Upon a Ban" Same style as slide 1. “It’s not easy, but learning to respectfully disagree and live in difference, with mutual care for each other, is the heart of democracy.” Same style. “Justice Alito deems our books ‘coercive’ because of their JOY. But JOY belongs to EVERYONE.”
June 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Want to support #FReadom and the #Righttoread ? Here's a Call to Action Guide for children and adults.

#MahmoudvTaylor

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June 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Additional statement from the authors and illustrators whose books are named in #MahmoudvTaylor

pen.org/press-releas...

@penamerica.bsky.social Response Statement:

pen.org/how-opt-outs...
4. Soft green to blue background with rainbow on top with soft heart framing page. "Justice Thomas suggested that schools “cabin” LGBTQ+ representation into separate units to make opt-outs easier. But the Supreme Court already decided: SEPARATE IS NOT EQUAL. Justice Alito wrote for the majority that our books are “coercive” because they show LGBTQ+ JOY. Which is HUMAN JOY. Every child deserves books that honor their FULL HUMANITY. EVERYONE belongs at school. EVERYONE belongs in this world." 5. Soft green to blue background with rainbow on top with soft heart framing page "The Supreme Court doesn’t have the last word. WE DO. We can OPT IN to INCLUSION. Inclusive classrooms boost everyone. “LGBTQ+ people and families exist. ...[B]ooks that include LGBTQ+ people should not be treated differently... The Court’s decision does not require our schools to abandon these efforts. Parents, students, educators, and neighbors can encourage opportunities for learning about diverse people and families by staying involved with school districts, school boards, and in our local communities.” GLAAD" 6. Top banner with covers of picture books. Footer, pink to yellow with black text: "Love can still win! [heart] Charlotte xoxo" A soft heart frames the word "love." The center image is of the Supreme Court building at twilight, with light inside the building, rainbow and stars above it, with colorful characters from all the books on the steps. A joyful scene. Images from Love, Violet (c) 2022 Charlene Chua, used w. permission Final image (c) 2025 Julie McLaughlin, images from 9 books in Mahmoud v. Taylor
June 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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🌈 Response to Mahmoud v. Taylor

💜 Love, Violet was inspired by the joy of my own childhood crushes...

@penamerica.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social @tasslyn.bsky.social @charlenedraws.bsky.social #kidlit #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQkids #LoveViolet @glaad.bsky.social
1. Banner with covers of LGBTQ+ picture books in Mahmoud v. Taylor. Soft image of US Supreme Court building, with illustrated rainbow and purple heart over it, lower corner, image of Violet and Mira from Love, Violet smiling, running away from the building. Footer, image of Love, Violet book, pink-to-yellow color, "Response to Mahmoud v. Taylor" Soft yellow to rose background with rainbow at top and purple heart. "Love, Violet was inspired by the joy of my own childhood crushes. I was an LGBTQ+ child, like countless children. I needed stories like this one. Readers have shared that finding themselves in this story has delighted and healed them. Children have hugged Love, Violet. Cishet children have asked for it over and over. Children deserve relatable books that include them and those around them at school." 3. Soft orchid background with rainbow at the top with small image of Mira and Violet smiling and running. "Religious liberty is essential. But hiding LGBTQ+ people is not free exercise of religion. It is oppression. School is where children learn how to disagree respectfully and to get along with people unlike themselves. Opt-outs teach children to separate themselves, to fear and reject those they disagree with. Opt-outs stigmatize LGBTQ+ children. I hope parents OPT OUT of opt-outs, so their children learn kindness and are prepared to engage with a diverse world."
June 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Thanks to #ChelseaJohnson, #LaToyaCouncil, & #CarolynChoi for their beautiful book #IntersectionAllies: We Make Room for All - and this article. (I believe you can read the article with a free email registration.) Check out their book, illus. by #AshleySeilSmith

www.dottirpress.com/intersection...
The cover of the picture book Intersection Allies: We Make Room for All, with soft yellow background and simple, colorful images of different friends holding the letters of the title with different kinds of hair texture, styles, skin colors, different types of dress and one child in a wheel chair.
June 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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June 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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💜 For all my people bringing love and justice to a stormy world, in ways quiet and loud. Your beauty is showing. 💜

##nokings #nokingsday #nokingsinamerica
June 15, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Thanks! So relieved! Now... chicken books! Bawk
May 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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🎉 I'm thrilled to announce that I'm newly represnted by #agent @analiacabello.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social

Thanks, Analía for opening this door! I love the warmth, professionalism, and support I've already experienced from the ABLA community! Here's to new things! 🎉

#kidlit
May 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Thanks #BrookeMigdon @thehill.com for illuminating how every battle over representation v. censorship is personal. #MahmoudvTaylor #SCOTUS

Enjoy the article...
thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

... & books yourself! (Thanks @loyaltybooks.bsky.social!)
bookshop.org/lists/suppor...

#kidlit #Freadom
Slide 7: Soft pink background, dark read heart and script heading: "Every battle over representation v. censorship is personal." Image of article heading: "The Hill, LGBTQ 'Authors in Supreme Court LGBTQ books case detail 'surreal' fight' By Brooke Migdon - -4/25/25 6:00 AM ET" Image of banner with covers of all 9 picture books named in Mahmoud v. Taylor. Caption: "Check out the article and books for yourself!" QR code. Soft pink background. Dark red heart at top. Images of the nine picture books named in Mahmoud v. Taylor. QR code
April 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Our books, our life stories are the best way to help people move past prejudice and realize, whatever our differences, we are human family. We can exist in friendly community together--if you let us.

#mahmoudvtaylor #SCOTUS @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social #JodiePatterson #kidlit
Soft orchid background, dark red hearts around small image of the picture book "Love, Violet" with script heading: "Charlotte Sullivan Wild | Love, Violet" Quotation: "[Violet] was my age level. This was me... I'm asking you to see me... and to see the children... in these classrooms as real human being worthy of kindness and respect. That's what our books are about." Footer: "The Hill: 'Authors in Supreme Court LGBTQ+ Case'" Soft yellow background, dark red heart and script heading: "Jodie Patterson | Born Ready" Image of picture book "Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope." Quotation: "The world is diverse. America is diverse... it's a false narrative that these books disrupt... these books actually uncover a bit of the life that I know to be true."
April 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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As authors named in #MahmoudvTaylor, we've watched several #SCOTUS justices seem unable or unwilling to view LGBTQ+ children and familes as we are: simply human, worthy of stories, kindness, and constitutional rights.

@robinstevenson.bsky.social #JulieMcLaughlin @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social #kidlit
Soft blue background. Dark red heart and script heading: "On Misrepresentation: Orca Publisher Andrew Wooldridge" Image of the picture book Pride Puppy! Quotation: "Justice Gorsuch's characterization of [Pride Puppy!] during the Supreme Court arguments is a misrepresentation..."[It] simply depects a diverse community enjoying a Pride celebration..." Footer: "The Hill: 'Authors in Supreme Court LGBTQ+ CASE" Side 4: Soft green background, dark read heart and script heading: "On Misrepresentation: Sarah S. Brannen | Uncle Bobby's Wedding" Image of cover of picture book Uncle Bobby's Wedding. Quotation: "It's a very simple story... for a 5-year-old, so I don't really think there's any question about what it's saying... ...Justice Alito was being disingenuous." (He also voted against same-sex marriage.) Footer: "The Hill: 'Authors in Supreme Court LGBTQ+ Case'"
April 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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💜 Thanks, #BrookeMigdon @thehill.com for letting the authors of the books in #MahmoudvTaylor at #SCOTUS share our stories.

thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

@mackidsbooks.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social #kidlit #lgbtq+
Soft pink background, dark red heart and heading in dark red script: The personal stories behind our books. Image of article header: "The Hill: LGBTQ, Authors in Supreme Court LGBTQ books case detail 'surreal fight. By Brooke Migdon = 4/26/25 6 AM ET" Below title, image of protesters with rainbow umbrellas and a sign: "You can't opt out of queer people existing!" QR code Slide 2: soft yellow background. Dark red heart and script heading: "DeShanna Neal | My Rainbow" Image of the picture book My Rainbow, smiling child with brown skin and a sparkling wig made of rainbow flowers. Quotation: "As a mother, it hurts that my child is so monstrous to you," Neal said, referring to claims that her book is not apporpriate for elementtary school students." Footer: "The Hill: 'Authors in Supreme Court LGBTQ+ CASE'"
April 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I was struck by how the oral arguments for #MahmoudvTaylor at #SCOTUS seemed to ignore actual children. So, thank you, @onceuponaban.bsky.social for this discussion!

@mombian.bsky.social @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social #kidlit #BooksNotBans @penamerica.bsky.social #WNDB #AABB
On soft pink background with two darker pink scribbled hearts, image of the author smiling, with light skin and light brown wavy hair. "Interview with Charlotte Sullivan Wild, Author of Love, Violet" @OnceUponaBan and QR code Slide 2: orchid color background: "What if children could grow up with ordinary, realistic images of Q+ people? Children might feel kindness is normal rather than bullying. And Q+ children could see themselves, from the beginning, as not alone." Charlotte Sullivan Wild, Author of Love, Violet. @OnceUponABan QR code
April 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Live audio of #SCOTUS case #MahmoudvTaylor at 10 AM Eastern today. Can public schools include LGBTQ+ picture books like ours without opt-outs? Must schools seek permission for any content parents might not agree with?

www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

(c) Andy Passchier & (c) Julie McLaughlin
April 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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As I write for @usnews.com, I'm a queer pastor's kid. Now religious families don't want their kids to read #LGBTQ+ books like LOVE, VIOLET & 8 bks. #MahmoudvTaylor @ #SCOTUS TODAY 10AM E

www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

@mackidsbooks.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social
#kidlit #BooksNotBans #lgbtq
April 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Calling any #kidlit authors illustrators whose books have been challenged and are attending the #rallyforinclusiveeducation at the Supreme Court on April 22, 8am-2pm E. If you are interested in reading from your books, please DM. This is an inclusive call, beyond LGBTQ+ books!

#weneeddiversebooks
April 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Thanks to the brilliant @sarahsbrannen.bsky.social for this political cartoon on Mahmoud v. Taylor and our picture books! I LOVE IT! Oral arguments are April 22. The greatest gift of having a book in this stressful case has been connecting with the SCOTUS Book Club!

@mackidsbooks.bsky.social
Color cartoon image of the nine Supreme Court Justicies mostly seated, each holding a different picture book from Mahmoud v. Talyor
April 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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True love
April 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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April 22, SCOTUS will hear a case about LGBTQIA+ picture books. Join us for a Rally for Inclusive Education, 8am - 2pm at SCOTUS - OR host your own echo event!

Event toolkit, activity packet, & action ideas:

shorturl.at/k7AX3

#kidlit #lgbtqkids #FReadom ##SCOTUSRally2025 #Pride #LiveInYourTruth
April 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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You're invited to rally at the Supreme Court on April 22, 8AM - 2 PM EST, for the #FReadom to read! Bring rainbow umbrellas and joy! Please share!

Register: liveinyourtruth.org/rally-regist...

#RallyForInclusiveEducation #ProtectInclusiveEducation #WeWillNotBeErased #liveinyourtruth #mocopride
April 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM