Cool Stuff For Queer Kids
Join Me and Paula Yoo, Don Tate, Natasha Donovan, and Annette Bay Pimentel on June 15, 2021 for a Free Panel Discussion on Hidden History – and the Books for Kids and Teens that Re-Write Us All Into History
I'm excited and honored to be part of this discussion of how so much of our history needs to be reclaimed, and how books for kids and teens is a powerful way to tell the stories, and hear the voices, of Asian American, Indigenous, Black, Disabled, and LGBTQIA2+...
“Harvey Brownstone Interviews”… Me!
You know when you hear a really great, in-depth interview, like Terry Gross on Fresh Air, and you think - wow, that interviewer asks really great questions. I just had that experience this weekend, when I was interviewed for the "Harvey Brownstone Interviews" podcast....
Demi Lovato Comes Out As Non-Binary
Reported by Upworthy, and People, among other outlets, in their new podcast 4D with Demi Lovato, Demi comes out as Non-Binary. In the opening moment of the podcast, Demi announces: "Over the past year and a half I've been doing some healing and self-reflective work....
The Gender Wheel – A Beautiful Picture Book Explaining Gender to Kids in a Nature-Based, Queer-Positive, and Inclusive Way
Wow is this a picture book I wish had been read to me when I was a little kid! The Gender Wheel: A Story About Bodies and Gender for Everybody by Maya Gonzalez Here's the publisher description: "This is our world.Like many things in nature it's round and holds...
A Fun Way To Celebrate LGBTQIA2+ Pride This June: Take the Queer History Quiz to Reveal Your Pride Colors
You know those BuzzFeed-style quizzes that tell you if your colors are Fall, Winter, Spring, or Summer; or which Disney Princess castle you would live in; or which Grey's Anatomy character would be your soul mate? They're fun, and fast, and some of them tell us things...
Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea – A Middle Grade Novel About a Girl Who Loses One of Her Two Moms and Has to Navigate Loss, Friendship, and Maybe Magic, Too.
Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea by Ashley Herring Blake Hazel Bly used to live in the perfect house with the perfect family in sunny California. But when a kayaking trip goes horribly wrong, Mum is suddenly gone forever and Hazel is left with crippling anxiety and a...
Meet Cute Diary – A Trans Teen Rom-Com Where a Relationship ‘Expert’ Falls In Love For The First Time
Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee Noah Ramirez thinks he’s an expert on romance. He has to be for his popular blog, the Meet Cute Diary, a collection of trans happily ever afters. There’s just one problem—all the stories are fake. What started as the fantasies of a trans...
New Study Finds High Schoolers are More Gender-Diverse Than “Previously Thought”
A screen shot of the CNN article by Lisa Selin Davis So it turns out previous studies (like this one in 2017) basically asked teens if they were Trans. They found that 1.8% (so, 18 kids out of 1,000) identified as Trans. A new study that will be published in the June...
They She He Me – A Picture Book about gender for the littlest kids that’s simple, and beautiful, and very well might change the world
They She He Me, Free to Be! by Maya Christina Gonzalez and Matthew Sg How do you daily confirm and celebrate gender fluidity when the 'he' and 'she' binary is so prevalent in EVERYTHING, everywhere, all the time!?Pronouns serve as a familiar starting point for kids...
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