Luvvie Ayaji Jones, author of Rising Troublemaker: A Fear-Fighter Manual for Teens (Philomel Books, May), was the Closing General Session speaker of ALA’s 2022 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C. on June 28. Jones discussed the difference being nice and being kind: “‘Nice’ is weaponized, especially against women…. They use it to reduce us, dismiss us, to say that we don’t belong in the room for whatever reason,” said Jones, who noted that men are never tone-policed for not being nice. Kindness, on the other hand, is action oriented. “It’s thinking about how my decisions affect you.”