This week YA author Michael G. Long took over our Twitter as a part of our weekly Thursday Twitter Takeover. Michael G. Long is the author of the YA novel Kids on the March. (See YEM’s interview with Michael G. Long here.) See highlights from the takeover below.
Hey, bookish folks and cool people everywhere!
Get ready to hear the inspiring voices of the powerful kids in my new book, #KidsontheMarch, and part of my own story.#PowerfulKids#YAauthorTakeover
Thanks to @YoungEntmag— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
"Today, we march, we fight, we roar!"
~ Stoneman Douglas HS student Delaney Tarr,
March for Our Lives, DC, 2018I write because I'm sick of kids dying in our schools.#KidsontheMarch#PowerfulKids#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
Why do I write about kids who protest?
Because we've IGNORED them, even though they've been at every major social justice movement in US history. The time has come to recognize the POWER of KIDS.#KidsontheMarch#PowerfulKids#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
"I have a dream … that this world should be a gun-free world, period!"
~ Yolanda Renee King, @AMarch4OurLives, 2018I write because Yolanda and her grandparents, MLK and Coretta Scott King, inspire me to fight against gun violence. #KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
My Inspiration: When I was a kid, my friends and I reported an abuser to adults. They ignored us, and he continued to be a youth group leader. Feeling silenced is awful! I write to amplify the voices of kids who've felt the same. #KidsontheMarch#LetKidsSpeak#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
"I'm sick and tired of it all."
"Don't be afraid. Just follow us out!"
~ Black HS student Barbara Johns to her peers, 1951 school strike, Farmville, VAI write to amplify Barbara's courageous voice — and because we still have racial segregation in our schools.
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
My inspiration: Looking at protest photos in US history, spotting kids in the margins, and asking myself, Who are these kids? And why don't we know about them?#KidsontheMarch#NoMoreInvisibleKids#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
"My mother told me not to march … but this just felt like something we were supposed to do."
~ Shirley Holmes Sims, Birmingham Kids March, 1963I write to honor Shirley and inspire other kids with her courage.#KidsontheMarch#PowerfulKids#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
My inspiration: Kids who are tired of adults telling them to stay in their place. Kids who dare to disobey for the cause of justice. Kids who fight against the conditioning that makes all of us so compliant.#KidsontheMarch#PowerfulKids#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
"At one school, the principal gave orders to lock the gates. … The youngsters climbed over the gates and ran toward freedom."
~ MLK re students in Birmingham, 1963I write to praise kids who make a mad dash for freedom!#RunLikeHell#KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
My favorite protest documentary right now: CRIP CAMP: A DISABILITY REVOLUTION. These kids have changed the world! #DisabilityPower#KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
"This is a piece of black cloth. People are dying in Vietnam."
~ John Tinker refusing to take off his armband just before being suspended from school, Des Moines, 1965 #TheQuietProtester#TinkervDesMoines#KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
My favorite adult book about protests: WHY CIVIL RESISTANCE WORKS: THE STRATEGIC LOGIC OF NONVIOLENT CONFLICT by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephen#NonviolenceWorks#KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
"Brown Is Beautiful!"
"Chicano Power!"
~ Protest signs at East LA schools walkouts, 1968#BrownIsBeautiful#KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
One of my favorite adult protesters: Bayard Rustin, the brilliant strategist of the Black civil rights movement!#BayardRustin#AngelicTroublemaker#KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
"I'm willing to set my life on the line to protect this water, to protect … Mother Earth."
~ Youth activist Terrell Iron Shell, Standing Rock, 2016What are YOU willing to sacrifice for?#DAPL#OcetiSakowinYouth#KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
"I tried to bring people along, but no one was really interested, and so I had to do it by myself."
~ Greta Thunberg on her strike for climate justice, 2018#GretaThunberg #FridaysforFuture#AlexandriaVillasenor#KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
"Unstoppable. Undeniable. Undocumented. Unafraid."
~ Student t-shirt message, March for Dreamers, 2019I write to amplify the powerful voices of DREAMERS!#Dreamers#DREAMAct #KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover#UnitedWeDream
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
"What Do Like More, Guns or Kids?"
"Arms Are for Hugging"
~Protest signs @AMarch4OurLives, 2018The message of my book: LISTEN TO THE KIDS! #MarchForOurLives #KeepKidsSafe#KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
If enough of us yell out in protest, then they will just have to listen."
~ Monique Grodzki, Children's Peace Committee, 1981I love kids who shout about warmongering, violent adults!#KidsforPeace#KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
"Let us fight with love, faith, and courage so that our families will not be destroyed."
~ Student Sofia Cruz, Women's March, DC, 2017I love her powerful voice for reform in immigration policies!#SofiaCruz#DREAMERS#DREAMAct #KidsontheMarch#YAauthorTakeover
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
@YoungEntmag — Thank you so much for letting me takeover your Twitter account.
So fun, so meaningful!
Peace out, everyone!#KidsontheMarch#PowertoKids#PowerToThePeople
— WATCH 📺 LISTEN 🎧 READ 📚 (@YoungEntmag) March 25, 2021
