Hi Community! The last couple of months have been PACKED, and I'm excited to share some of the good parts here:A DIFFERENT KIND OF BRAVE news:My Gay Teen love letter to James Bond movies received a Starred Review from Foreword Reviews, Booklist cheered it for being “A...
LGBTQ History
Join Me and Sarah Prager for a FREE Queer History Discussion as Part of the Circa Queer Histories Festival Oct 25, 2023
I'm very excited to team up with the remarkable author Sarah Prager (love her A Child’s Introduction to Pride and Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World) to talk about researching and writing Queer history for kids and teens. I hope you can join...
Resources from my “No Way, They Were Gay?” Breakout Sessions at NEA’s 2023 LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Leadership Conference
What an amazing conference! I'm so grateful to C. Scott Miller and the entire NEA LGBTQ+ Caucus for inviting me to be part of their first LGBTQ+ Social Justice and Leadership Conference since 2019. Every one of the 250+ educators who attended the conference got a copy...
What It’s Really Like to Have Your Book Banned as an Author
Highest highs: Me and a room full of middle schoolers at a school visit in November 2022, organized by We Need Diverse Books and Writers and Artists Across the Country. Every student in the photo is holding their own copy of my nonfiction book for readers age 11 and...
Download and Decipher This Moment from Queer History – An Activity Worksheet for NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY?
One of the very cool discoveries I made in doing research for NO WAY, THEY WERE GAY? was Anne Lister's secret code - crypthand - that let Anne write about things in the early 1800s without fear of someone else reading it and exposing her Queerness. In fact, it took...
STRONG – A Stereotype-Breaking Picture Book I Wish Had Been Read to Me When I was a Little Kid
Strong by Rob Kearney and Eric Rosswood, Illustrated by Nidhi Chanani Rob dreams of becoming a champion strongman. He wants to flip huge tires, lug boulders, and haul trucks -- and someday be the strongest man in the world! But he feels like he can't fit in with his...