Middle Grade LGBTQ Anthology Brings Together Some of the Best of the Genre
A superb new anthology for middle graders, with stories across the LGBTQ spectrum, includes tales by many of the luminaries of queer youth fiction.
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Closure, Sort of: Parenting in The L Word: Generation Q, S2E10
The season finale of The L Word: Generation Q answered a few questions but asked more. Let’s wrap up the parenting storylines of the season.
A New, All-Gender Guide for Tweens Who Have Periods (and Even Those Who Don’t)
Yes, this new book for tweens is inclusive of people of all genders who have periods! The positive, informative, and thorough guide is a great book, period.
More Queer-Inclusive Picture Books Celebrating Indigenous Cultures
For Indigenous People’s Day today, here’s an updated look at queer-inclusive children’s books that celebrate indigenous people and cultures—great for reading all year ’round!
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.
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.