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8 Awesome Queer Books for the Youth and Tweens in Your Life
LGBT fiction for the tween / young teen in your life, or for anyone who likes a good queer book (spoiler: that’s everyone).
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As School Season Begins, Fight for Trans Representation in Public Libraries
The public library is in the unique position to pick up where public education leaves off—to succeed where public education fails. It’s time we start rethinking what a library can be.
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How Writing “The Ship We Built,” a Children’s Novel, Helped Me Come Out
The first draft of The Ship We Built was intended as a valentine for one person. Six and a half years later, The Ship We Built has been released as a novel with Penguin Random House and continues to be a valentine – now for anybody who picks it up.
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What This Trans Survivor Wants J.K. Rowling to Know
Joanne Rowling and I might have more in common than she thinks.
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Jacqueline Wilson is Gay: Beloved Author and Former Children’s Laureate Comes Out at 74
The bestselling author has written over 100 books and she’s been living happily with her partner, Trish, for 18 years.
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“Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” by Vashti Harrison Is the Black Herstory I Needed as a Child
“Close your eyes and imagine for one moment a world where little black girls spend their entire childhoods seeing women like the ones they will become in just as many books, television shows, awards ceremonies, universities, political offices, magazines, advertisements and leadership positions as their white peers do. Really picture it, and then ask yourself: what would that future look like?”
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“Goodnight Moon” Is Gay: Margaret Wise Brown Was A Bisexual Badass, Y’all
Goodnight Moon started out as a sad gay love poem.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Witches Like Books
This week we gather under the last quarter moon to discuss how to curb the profusion of elfin construction, swap tips for keeping mildew out of our newly-constructed moss bath mats, find out whether Nikki bought that tie, and ponder Saturn’s transit through Sagittarius. Also Young Adult Literature. Get in here!
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Mara Wilson is Queer: Actress Felt Moved To Say She’s One Of Us
“If Mara’s coming out helps even one more Kinsey 2 realize they have the right to support and love among other queers, then that is the rich fruit borne of a celebrity making herself visible.”
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5 Things I Learned from “The Gutsy Girl”
“The Gutsy Girl” is part memoir, part instruction manual, part unbelievable true adventure tale. It’s also a New York Times bestseller, which gives a hint about how ready we all are for a no-holds-barred hurrah for bravery now that we’ve integrated the term “impostor syndrome” into our mental catalogue of what’s holding us back.
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40 LGBTQ-Friendly Picture Books for Ages 0-5
Spread the gay agenda with these colourful, easy-to-read books teaching love, acceptance, and science.
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GIVEAWAY: You Can Win A Kate Beaton “The Princess and the Pony” Prize Pack!
Aw Yiss! Princess and the Pony prize pack!
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Team Pick: Feminist Hacker Barbie
“Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer,” remixed.
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Canadian Children’s Book Explains How Babies are Made in a Gender-Neutral Way!
“Every thing that grows, grows differently. Each of us grow in our own way.”
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Kvelling Over First LGBT-Inclusive Jewish Children’s Book
Vanessa’s Team Pick: As a Jewish lesbian with hopes and dreams of one day becoming a mom, I feel that it is my duty to tell you that the very first LGBT-inclusive Jewish children’s book in English finally exists!
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Holiday Gift Guide 2013: Gifts For Kids Who Have Way Too Many Toys
It’s so fun to buy gifts for kids! The thing is, if you have a small child in your life, chances are that child has way too many toys already.
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Utah School District Returns Controversial Lesbian Family Book To Shelves, We Win A Thing
Davis County, UT school board realizes that maybe letting books help teach students’ tolerance about same-sex families is actually an awesome idea.
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Read Banned Books, Be The Revolution
Banned Books Week is like Christmas for me: it allows me to queer my reading like I queer my gender. Party hard with some inappropriate reading!
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Definitely Read “What Makes a Baby” To Any and All Children
Because it’s not just sex education. It’s life education.
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14 Girls We Wanted To Be Back Then: Kickass Heroines From YA & Children’s Books Of Yesteryear
We spent the 80’s and early 90’s with our noses in books, dreaming of being Scout or Molly or Fern or Heidi or Ramona or Harriet or so many more! What are your favorites?