Cool Stuff For Queer Kids
The Political Theater of Book Banning Continues…
Two new developments - One absurdist, the other about the kid lit community standing together in solidarity. 1) As reported at Book Riot by Kelly Jensen, "Barnes & Noble Being Sued in Virginia Beach Over Gender Queer, Court of Mist and Fury," "No longer is this...
Nonbinary Categories in Running Races Are One Answer To Increasing Equity in Sports
Images from the April 30, 2022 New York Times, "Nonbinary Runners Have Been Here the Whole Time: In the past year, road races have debuted a nonbinary category, typically with around two dozen or fewer such competitors at each event." Amid all the controversy over...
Ophelia After All – Boy-Crazy High School Senior Ophelia Crushes on another Girl… And Has To Figure Out What It Means… And What To Do About It!
Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie Ophelia Rojas knows what she likes: her best friends, Cuban food, rose-gardening, and boys - way too many boys. Her friends and parents make fun of her endless stream of crushes, but Ophelia is a romantic at heart. She couldn't...
LGBTQ Lawmakers in 19 States Coordinate a “Rainbow Wall” of Laws to Protect Trans Kids and their Families
Amidst the onslaught of introduced bills and laws around the U.S.A. targeting Trans kids and threatening their families with criminal prosecution for helping them get puberty blockers (to temporarily slow their bodies' puberty) or gender-affirming care, seeing this...
Cheer Up! Love and Pom Poms – a Queer Teen Graphic Novel Lesbian + Trans Girl Romance
Cheer Up! Love and Pom Poms by Crystal Frasier, illustrated by Val Wise Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former...
“Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill” is featured as one of three “fantastic” indie published fiction books in an article by Booky Call
I'm super excited that when choosing just three fiction books for their Medium.com article, We ❤️ Independent Books: 3 Fiction and 3 Nonfiction Book Dates To Cozy Up With, the Booky Call team chose my debut YA novel, Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill! Booky Call is this...
Calvin – a picture book about a Trans Boy’s first day of school (written by parents of a Trans child)
Calvin by JR and Vanessa Ford, Illustrated by Kayla Harren In this joyful and impactful picture book, a transgender boy prepares for the first day of school and introduces himself to his family and friends for the first time.Calvin has always been a boy, even if the...
Both of My Books Published in 2021 Make the Children’s Book Committee of the Bank Street College of Education “Best Books of the Year” List!
This is such cool news. Red and Green and Blue and White was included in the picture book category, with the diversity and read-aloud icons, along with this summary review: "A fictionalized account of a town bonding together to stop bigotry, told with stunningly...
What We Devour – Dark YA Fantasy with Asexual and Aromantic Representation
What We Devour by Linsey Miller Lorena Adler has a secret—she holds the power of the banished gods, the Noble and the Vile, inside her. She has spent her entire life hiding from the world and her past. She’s content to spend her days as an undertaker in a small town,...
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