Cool Stuff For Queer Kids
Outsports Rounds Up “Team LGBTQ” at the Olympics – We Did Great!
It's sports week on the blog! First up, In Jim Buzinski's Outsports article, Top 7 LGBTQ moments of the Tokyo Olympics, we get some great statistics, and moments, including: "A record 182 out LGBTQ athletes in Tokyo" - and the list growing 50% once the original...
Indestructible Object – A Teen Podcaster, Just Dumped by Her Boyfriend, Tries to Figure Out If Love Exists At All. Risa, a New Girl In her Life, Might Hold the Answer…
Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy For the past two years, Lee has been laser-focused on two things: her job as a sound tech at a local coffee shop and her podcast "Artists in Love," which she cohosts with her boyfriend Vincent.Until he breaks up with her on the air...
American Medical Association Recommends Removing Sex From Birth Certificates
The Instagram post by them. announcing the AMA recommendation Reported by Britni De La Cretaz, this article at Them., American Medical Association Recommends Removing Sex From Birth Certificates, is a big deal -- and good news that is long overdue. As the Them...
More Wisdom, Inspiration, and Moments from SCBWI’s “The Big Five OH” Conference
Highlights and take-aways for me included: “White space to leave room for your reader.”and“Until you find yourself on the page, you’ll go looking for yourself in all the wrong places.” – Richard Peck (from Richard’s SCBWI Master Class) “A good lesson does not make a...
Max and Friends – an Early Chapter Book Series Starring a Trans Kid and His Gender Nonconforming Friends, written by Trans author Kyle Lukoff
Call Me Max by Kyle Lukoff When Max starts school, the teacher hesitates to call out the name on the attendance sheet. Something doesn’t seem to fit. Max lets her know the name he wants to be called by—a boy’s name. This begins Max’s journey as he makes new friends...
Tim Te Maro And The Subterranean Heartsick Blues – A YA Fantasy Where Two Gay Teen Boys at a Magical Boarding School Team Up To Get Back At Their Exes… And Fall For Each Other
Tim Te Maro And The Subterranean Heartsick Blues by H. S. Valley Tim Te Maro and Elliott Parker – classmates at Fox Glacier High School for the Magically Adept – have never gotten along. But when they both get dumped the day before the big egg-baby assignment, they...
Wisdom and Inspiration from “The Big Five OH!” SCBWI Summer Conference, part 1
Not blogging the conference was really tough, but I still collected a bunch of helpful quotes and moments in my journal. Here are a few: Malinda Lo’s helpful question when revising: “What emotional impact do I want readers to have when reading my book?” (And apply to...
A Personal Note About SCBWI
As the SCBWI 50th Anniversary Summer Conference gets underway, I want to acknowledge the crisis of confidence and belonging SCBWI is going through. It’s a crisis that has led to there not being a team blog reporting on this conference, and to there not being an LGBTQ+...
The Taking of Jake Livingston – A Gay Teen Who Sees Dead People Struggles With Being One of the Only Black Kids at His Prep School, a Vengeful Ghost, and a Hot New Guy…
The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one...
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