JoJo Siwa was not invited to the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards and I have a few things to say about it.

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Despite being nominated for Favorite Social Music Star at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, JoJo Siwa says she wasn’t invited to attend the event. HMM. WHAT COULD BE THE REASON?

For those of you who don’t know, JoJo Siwa is a pop star, dancer, and Nickelodeon and YouTube celebrity, and in 2020 made Time Magazine‘s 100 Most Influential list. She also came out as queer last year, was the first person to have a same-sex dance partner on Dancing With the Stars, and very recently cut off her signature ponytail.

I’m not a Jojo Siwa fan, I’m certainly not part of her demographic, but I am genuinely heartbroken for this young woman and for all the LGBTQ kids out there who look up to her. Having this moment and this platform taken away from her is inexcusable, and I look forward to Nickelodeon explaining itself. We are in a dangerous time right now where the right is using an illegitimate fear of LGBTQ people “grooming” our kids as an excuse to try to silence LGBTQ voices and erase their presence in our culture. I know one pop star not being invited to an awards show that most people don’t watch might seem like small potatoes, but it is a cruel and unnecessary exclusion. Siwa, who is 18 years old, is an exceptionally positive role model for all kids and teens, but especially for those who might be questioning their identities. And refusing to have her in attendance at the awards show — where, again, she was nominated for an award — sends a very ugly and dark message to those same kids: that they are unwelcome, that they are unloved. Again, I eagerly await a statement from Nickelodeon as to what the actual fuck happened here. Maybe there is a perfectly reasonable explanation that does not involve being terrified of pearl-clutching adults, but I am doubtful.

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