Prom and Promises: Parenting in The L Word: Generation Q, S2E9
The penultimate episode of Season 2 brought us prom and the return of Angie’s donor, but thankfully spared us the pain of an elementary school recorder concert.
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3 of 5 Finalists for 2021 National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature Have Queer Protagonists
All five shortlisted finalists for the National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature, announced today, focus on people with marginalized identities. Three of the five have queer protagonists. I’ve reviewed all three, so come and meet them again!
Two Men in Love and Their 456 Chickens: New Picture Book Is a Feathery Delight
Chickens are inherently funny. Four hundred and fifty-six of them are hilarious. Add in their owner and his partner/husband who are trying to wrangle the pesky birds, a nonsense song that your children will love to repeat (you’ve been warned), drawings with fun details to discover, and a perfectly paced narrative, and you have all the makings of a children’s book hit.
New Kids’ Books on LGBTQ History (and Dozens More)
It’s LGBTQ History Month, one of my favorite times of the year! Several new kids’ books on LGBTQ history and historical figures have come out since I last rounded them up, and a great new one is coming out shortly, so here’s a look!
5 Ways to Celebrate Banned Books Week 2021
It’s Banned Books Week, the annual event celebrating the freedom to read! LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books are among those most frequently banned, along with books that have themes of race and racial justice. Here are five things you can do now to celebrate and support banned books.
HBO’s “Nuclear Family”: A Landmark Lesbian Parentage Case and a Daughter’s Search for Understanding
It is many a queer parent’s nightmare: your child’s sperm donor sues for paternity. When it happened to Robin Young and Sandy Russo in 1991, it precipitated a landmark four-year court battle that indelibly marked 9-year-old Ry Russo-Young and her 11-year-old sister Cade. Yet Ry, now an award-winning filmmaker, had never really been able to process her feelings about what happened. Her attempt to do so, and to understand the other side of the story, led her to create Nuclear Family, a three-part documentary that premieres this Sunday on HBO.
“Dealing with Different Stuff”: Parenting in The L Word: Generation Q, S2E7
No, I didn’t recap Episode 6 since there wasn’t any parenting content in it, but there’s plenty in Episode 7, so buckle up!
A Delightful Tale of a First Sleepover (that Happens to Include a Two-Mom Family)
In the latest book of the long-running Lola Reads series, Lola is off to her first sleepover! She’s excited about spending the night with her cousin Hani and Hani’s two moms, Lola’s aunts. The fact that they’re a two-mom couple is a complete non-issue.
A Soothing Bedtime Read from the Author of “Heather Has Two Mommies”
Any day there’s a new book by Lesléa Newman is a good day. Her latest story is a sweet bedtime poem celebrating the natural world and different types of families.
The Two Board Books Challenging Homophobia Around the World
Lawrence Schimel and Elina Braslina’s two board books for toddlers, Early One Morning and Bedtime, Not Playtime, are delightful slice-of-life tales about families that just happen to have same-sex parents. Schimel’s clever networking has also made them perhaps the most-translated LGBTQ-inclusive children’s books ever and brought them to countries that have few such books already.