It’s back-to-school time and International Literacy Day, so let’s celebrate some of the heroes of literacy in school and community: librarians! Here are six kids’ books featuring queer librarians, librarians helping queer kids, and librarians in drag!
Rubble & Crew, a spin-off of Nickelodeon’s smash-hit kids’ show Paw Patrol, has dropped an episode with the franchise’s first nonbinary character (and first confirmed LGBTQ character overall), written by Lindz Amer of Queer Kid Stuff.
If one LGBTQ-inclusive book is good, two are better! Here are some pairs of middle-grade books with common themes—if you like one, you (or the young readers in your life) might like the other, too!
What Does Love Look Like?, the latest album from family music group Strawbitty Yops, is all about “the different ways we show and receive love.” It includes their single about queer joy, “Rainbow Superpowers,” along with other upbeat tunes about family, community, collaboration, listening, gratitude, and more.
Three LGBTQ-inclusive picture books out today explore a range of emotions, from warm family times with diverse families, to coping with grief after the death of a pet, to joy and self-confidence with a dash of romance!
It’s that time of year again, so here are more than 30 LGBTQ-inclusive picture books involving first days of school or other school situations—plus a bonus of three classics published more than four decades ago, showing just how long such books have been around!
It’s International Cat Day, so let’s celebrate with these LGBTQ-inclusive board, picture, and middle-grade books involving our feline friends—including a brand-new board book with a two-mom family that’s not “about” being a two-mom family!
Yes, this thorough, graphic-style guide to menstruation from the authoritative Mayo Clinic is fully inclusive of people of all genders who get periods! Read on for my review and how it compares to some similar titles.
My spouse Helen and I recently chatted with Lisa Schuman of the Donor Conception Conversations podcast about creating our family via reciprocal IVF 20 years ago, talking with our son about his donor, interacting with his schools, legally securing my parentage, and much more. Have a listen!
Carrie Chapman Catt led the women’s suffrage movement through passage of the 19th Amendment—aided by the woman a new picture book rightly calls her “partner for life.” Here’s my review, along with an exciting giveaway!
