Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
🔸Children’s book author of very Black, very Muslim stories
🔸2-Time Muslim Bookstagram Winner
🔸Honors: Golden Kite, Walter Award, Irma Black
🔸SLA Information Award
🔸A bit political. A lot human.
🔸Rep’d by @Pterlip
🔸 www.JamilahTheWriter.com
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- This play is coming to the Fringe Arts festival this weekend! Based on my children's book with the same title, this is a vivid, dramatic, and funny retelling of the story by Enchantment Theatre Company. Great family fun! #philly #kidlit #booksky
- It’s the weekend… critique! WEEKEND CRITIQUE is a critiquing service I’m offering to picture book writers during the summer only with, yes, a weekend turnaround. Find out more: jamilahthewriter.com/WeekendCritique Slots are limited. #kidlit #kidlitchat #picturebooks #PBchat
- Congratulations to my good friend @ashleyfranklin.bsky.social on her upcoming MG debut! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
- A win for my book! So much gratitude!
- The Pedro and Daniel Intersectionality Book Award Winners! SISTER FRIEND @authorjamilah.bsky.social & Shahrzad Maydani THE MAID AND THE CROCODILE Jordan Ifueko More details: ReadYourWorld.org/awards #PADIBA #PADIBA2025 #KidlitBookNews #kidlit #kidlitcommunity #TLSky #SkyBrarians #edusky
- Authors, we do not have to bow to Meta AI stealing our work. Let’s write and put Mark Zuckerberg on notice: actionnetwork.org/letters/auth... #authors #writers #poets #kidlit
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- Ramadan Mubarak!
- We have career politicians, pundits, and Musk — all millionaires and billionaires — joking about doge-ing federal workers. Talking glibly about people losing their livelihoods and benefits with descriptions like “getting spanked.” Such coldness. They’re not like us. Not at all.
- Reposted by Jamilah Thompkins-BigelowThe final edition of #TheReidOut with Joy Reid starts right now on MSNBC. Tune in now, #reiders.
- Reposted by Jamilah Thompkins-BigelowJoy on our crisis of democracy: "Tonight on our final ReidOut, we’re going to talk about what people are actually doing to resist this and get some great advice from some of our favorite friends on what more we can do."
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- Feeling inspired by this today. You can worry or you can pray. #jalenhurts #saquon #eagles youtu.be/w-0JuOKML_w?...
- This thread has me cackling 💀
- E-A-G-L-E-S!!!! 🦅
- Reposted by Jamilah Thompkins-BigelowDon’t just say DEI as if it’s a bad word. Spell it out. Say diversity, which is the lifeblood of American society & culture & innovation. Say equity, which a just society should pursue. Say inclusion, because decent people believe in increasing belonging, not isolating people who are different.
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- Ever had an editor or agent tell you your picture book is “too quiet”? This popular workshop is back to address the why’s and explore how some “quiet books” still manage to roar: www.highlightsfoundation.org/workshop/tur... #kidlitchat #kidlitsky
- Reposted by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow✨Ending Friday✨ Thank you for helping raise almost $17,000! Just $5,000 till goal, still with dozens of items available. If you’re in need of a critique, advice, art commission, workshop, mentorship, we’ve got you! Visit: www.32auctions.com/KidLit4Cease...
- This poem kept me up after fajr and I’ve been writing it throughout the day even though I have to do my other work. Sharing here to tell myself it’s done and in case someone else enjoys it.
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- We are definitely not our ancestors. I get it. I plan Target trips to celebrate publishing wins. My statements say I am in there too much even when there’s nothing to celebrate 😆. But since when is a basic boycott too hard for our people? They get no more of my money until they reverse course.
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- The annual @aamericanchildrensbookfair takes place this Saturday, February 1st at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Kick off Black History Month with notable Black authors and illustrators. Giveaways, signings, and many great books! I look forward to seeing you there ☺️ #blackbooksky #kidlit
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- Congratulations, Everyone!
- It’s a great morning to be a Philadelphian. #flyeaglesfly 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
- First play!!!
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- Finally got my clock app archived and deactivated. Ten years put in where I met some good people and got through Covid shutdowns. It's bittersweet, but I know it's the right thing to do.
- Reposted by Jamilah Thompkins-BigelowOne of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙
- Reposted by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow✨PLEASE SHARE✨ It is live!!! There are over 260 AMAZING items to bid on in the 2nd annual #KidLit4Ceasefire auction from year-long mentorships to signed books to full manuscript critiques to art commissions the fundraiser has you covered! 🇵🇸 Link: bit.ly/KidLit4Cease...
- Reposted by Jamilah Thompkins-BigelowCompanies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI Amazon Boeing Brown-Forman Caterpillar Ford Harley-Davidson John Deere Lowe’s Molson Coors McDonald’s Meta Nissan Stanley Black & Decker Target Tractor Supply Toyota Walmart Support who supports you ✨✊
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- This is so me 😆
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- How I understand Islamophobia: -Muslims are always somehow deserving of any level of brutality. -This brutality is justified because of a perceived transgression of a group of us or even just one Muslim -We are always guilty as a group and therefore deserving of any level of brutality as a group
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- "Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives." ~ George Lucas
- These back-to-back headlines in my feed… What’s going on Harvard?
- It’s magic. A packed hall of Black kids (and other ppl who love Black stories) clamoring to get books and meet the Black storytellers who created them! Kick off #BHM with me and dozens of greats! www.paconvention.com/events/detai... #blacksky #blackkids #childrensbooks #philly #kidlitchat #kidlit
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- “You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger…” — Maya Angelou #booksky #writingcommunity #amwriting #kidlit #kidlitchat #poets
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- Finally exploring this space. Hoping to find my #kidlit peeps in the sky.
