Tell them to look up.

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I appear to be channelling Maureen Johnson today.

Particularly because when I started typing just now I realised I had capslock on.

Last night I watched High School and remembered how much I love teens and Twitter convinced me that I’m competent enough to be a school librarian and I got angry all over again about adults and YA because of these two articles.

I’m staying in my pyjama bottoms all day because WRITING SLACKS.

Also yes I have a coffee machine at my bedside because there’s nothing worse than having to get out of bed in the morning to make coffee.

This essay I’m writing: not so much a discussion of the ‘key issues’ as a guide on how to SAVE THE WORLD through information literacy.

Even though every time I write the word ‘information’ I make a typo.

Camera: Photo Booth

I WENT INTO THE GUARDIAN TO TALK ABOUT YA A LITTLE

maureenjohnsonbooks:

And here is a video of it.

I love you Maureen! I hugged my laptop after watching this video. That bit about negativity sells - so true. Oh my goodness, it’s a trend I’ve noticed a lot. I think cynicism and negativity sells so easily because it’s so cool and easy to be cynical but a lot of people don’t have reasons to be so negative; it just comes from a gut feeling or vague past experience or self-defense or whatever. So when they see their negativity articulated like that by someone who got published in a newspaper, they latch onto it with both hands and this becomes what they think because they don’t have the energy or desire or will to challenge it or work it out for themselves.

Maybe.

(Source: bhaudelaire)

"There’s no shame, and there’s nothing that’s happening to you that people haven’t known before … and people will come only after you and suffer the same things. YOU will know what it is like and YOU can help. And THAT is maybe the most powerful thing of all."

— Maureen Johnson (via runalovegood)

I would like to own this set of Maureen Johnson-themed magnetic words.

reidan-headquarters:

Maureen Johnson talked about bras on Twitter tonight. This is probably the most honest discussion I’ve seen from an adult about the topic and it makes me really happy that she’s so comfortable talking about them. In reality, girls shouldn’t feel awkward or weird about bringing up such items.

[Linda the Bra Lady]

I think my favourite part of this discussion was: