Brian Selznick reflects on fighting for AIDS funding and marriage equality, and worries young people are watching rights disappear. He stresses the importance of history and community, and talks to teachers, librarians, and booksellers about his work.
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I saw everything get built up, right? I saw everything. I saw the, the fights pay off in a lot of ways, the fights to get AIDS funding, the fights for marriage equity. And now young people are watching things getting taken away. Right. And so that, that feels, uh, I can't, I can't imagine what that's like as a young person to see. I know how disorienting and horrifying it is for me as an adult. Right. But to, but to be a young person coming up into that world is a particular horror. But I think that's why it's more important, even more important for us who, you know, who have lived longer to be able to say, like we were talking about earlier, we have history on our side. We have each other. It's the importance of community, right? I've been, I've been going to a lot of conferences speaking about this book to teachers, librarians, and booksellers.