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#YA4Hillary

A roundup of #YA4Hillary tweets because as Whitney Houston sang "The children are our future."

Jamie Canaves

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Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer — in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can always talk books with her on Bluesky, Litsy, Goodreads, and her substack Multitudes Contained.

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This election is exhausting. It’s easier to want to ignore, turn away, stay quiet and not have to engage because it’s so very overwhelming. But so much is at stake. We vote for a reason. We teach history for a reason. Cuba. Venezuela. Germany. Things can change while so many stand believing that it can never happen here. If you are exhausted by the current election imagine how marginalized voices feel. How exhausting it must be to constantly have to fight for the right to be treated equally in a country that claims to stand for that very thing. Imagine how exhausting it is to live terrified that we might elect someone who every day shouts things that clearly put so many people’s rights in danger. When the hatred is screaming so loud staying quiet isn’t an option. Many YA authors, and others in publishing, have joined together on Twitter to shout why they’re voting for Hillary Clinton using #YA4Hillary because as Whitney Houston sang The children are our future and as Sabaa Tahir puts it, we have to fight for their future. https://twitter.com/sabaatahir/status/783329910928531456 https://twitter.com/EmmyLaybourne/status/783338838139764741 https://twitter.com/Marie_Lu/status/783314993693327360 https://twitter.com/rainbowrowell/status/783422200770506756   https://twitter.com/thejuby/status/783336320525492225 https://twitter.com/MorganBaden/status/783308153010130944 https://twitter.com/sam_aye_ahm/status/783306122472095744 https://twitter.com/emerylord/status/783319279248797697 https://twitter.com/AlexandraBarba/status/783318877652463616 https://twitter.com/VictoriaAveyard/status/783318740867817472 https://twitter.com/kathglasgow/status/782952218299293697 https://twitter.com/IWGregorio/status/783274396001693696 https://twitter.com/juniperjenny/status/783289173079916544 https://twitter.com/ca_london/status/783295214123413504 https://twitter.com/andimJULIE/status/783370513452195840 https://twitter.com/ElloEllenOh/status/783312571604566016 https://twitter.com/jeffzentner/status/783291899939610624 https://twitter.com/ashleyhblake/status/783297626066202624 https://twitter.com/DianaUrban/status/783314642663796736 https://twitter.com/heatherwpetty/status/783313352118276097 https://twitter.com/misterkristoff/status/783299614158024704