Email Notifications Are Going Away and We're Moving

Hey youth!

Been a while, hasn't it? I'm sorry for disappearing again - consistency has been really hard and every post I've been working on is on a heavy or in-depth matter and so it's taken me a while to finish any.

I have a Independence Day post in the works, but I'm afraid it won't be ready for tomorrow.

I'm just here to let you know that email notifications from this blog are ending. Blogger (the platform I post on) is removing the tool which allows notifications to happen. There's no good way around this. So, We The Youth is moving to another blogging platform.

I don't know when we will, as I have several other blogs which I also need to move, but it's going to happen. I might not post again until the new site is ready, but I'm really just not sure. Life's been kind of hectic lately and keeping up with anything is hard, but I've got quite a few things I want to say still and so I don't want to say for sure if I'm taking a hiatus or not.

If you do still want email notifications incase I do post again soon, please shoot me an email letting me know and I will personally let you know whenever new posts are up.

Thanks for reading!

- EJ

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