Cool Stuff For Queer Kids
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating – to prove to her friends she’s Bi, Hani fake-dates another girl, Ishu, in this teen first-love rom com
Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar Everyone likes Humaira Hani Khan--she's easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can't be bi if she's...
The Fabulous Zed Watson! – A middle grade novel starring a nonbinary tween on a “literary scavenger hunt”
The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Basil Sylvester, Illustrated by Kevin Sylvester Zed Watson loves a few things: their name (which they chose themself!), their big rambunctious family, and--oh yeah--monsters. When Zed discovered the mystery surrounding an unpublished novel...
The Joys of Communally Reading “No Way They Were Gay?” with Teenagers in Cyberspace – A Guest Post by Jim Cartwright
As a gay/queer man with a passion for queer history who is also an educator and an author, I was very excited when Lee Wind’s No Way They Were Gay was released. I pre-ordered it, devoured it as soon as I got it, and...
Watch this recording of my middle school panel, “Real Talk,” with fellow authors Alex Gino and Jamie Sumner at the Southeastern Young Adult Book Festival #SEYA2022
We had a great conversation, and the panel recording is now up on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/qTKqES0e_4A What an honor to be included with Alex and Jamie! I hope you'll watch, enjoy, and share. The light in me recognizes and acknowledges the light in you,Lee
Jay’s Gay Agenda – An Out Gay High School Senior moves from a small town (with no other out gay teens) to a big city where suddenly he’s able to make his list of gay firsts — his personal ‘Gay Agenda’ — come true!
Jay's Gay Agenda by Jason June There's one thing Jay Collier knows for sure—he's a statistical anomaly as the only out gay kid in his small rural Washington town. While all his friends can't stop talking about their heterosexual hookups and relationships, Jay can only...
Upsetting and Cynical Move In Texas to Charge Parents of Trans Kids with ‘Child Abuse’ if they Support their Child’s Gender Affirming Treatment
Here's what the "Stand with Trans Kids in Texas" petition put out by Equality California says: "[At the end of February 2022], Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a directive to investigate and prosecute parents of transgender children and their healthcare providers."He...
Love, Violet – A girl-on-girl crush picture book that’s perfect for more than just Valentine’s Day – it lets every kid know that sometimes, girls have romantic crushes on other girls!
Love, Violet by Charlotte Sullivan Wild, Illustrated by Charlene Chua Only one personmakes Violet’s heart skipOf all the kids in Violet's class, only one leaves her speechless: Mira, the girl with the cheery laugh who races like the wind. If only they could adventure...
Using Picture Books to Explore POWER and Understand Inequity as an Imbalance of Power – a Panel Presentation I’ll be part of this Sunday Mar 6, 2022 at the California Teachers Association’s 2022 Equity and Human Rights Conference
As a new war lurches to disrupt and destroy lives, I find myself filled with sadness, and anger, and determination. Sadness, that after so many wars, so much violence, we human beings are still doing the same incredibly selfish shit, like invading a neighboring...
Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space – A Latinx Fantasy and Science Fiction Short Story Collection with Queer Characters and Themes
Reclaim the Stars: 17 Tales Across Realms & Space, Edited by Zoraida Cordova, with stories by Vita Ayala, David Bowles, J.C. Cervantes, Sara Faring, Romina Garber, Isabel Ibañez, Anna-Marie McLemore, Yamile Saied Méndez, Nina Moreno, Circe Moskowitz, Maya Motayne,...
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