CO-EDITORS-IN-CHIEF KRISTIN HOULIHAN & MELISSA ROTERT
I TRUST YOU | Artwork by Theartofpuro
When I consider what it means to be trustworthy, especially as it relates to a younger audience, I often connect it back to the reason we created Nimblewitlit. Kristin and I wanted to give children and teens a voice in a world that so often expects their silence. Growing up hearing adults proclaim that, “children should be seen and not heard,” the rebellious spirit of my own youth wanted to scream out about the things that mattered to me—with no concern for whether or not the adults wanted to hear it.
So what does this have to do with trust? As children, we expect the adults in our lives to provide physical and emotional safety, to listen to our needs, to care for and take care with our feelings. This is a relationship of trust. The most important of our lives and one that we carry with us to each and every relationship we form.
And for those who don’t feel heard? We give you space to scream out and demand the world listen!
We at Nimblewitlit hear you.
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– Melissa Rotert, Co-founder and EIC, Fiction