Cricket Media, publisher of a range of award-winning children’s magazines, is offering two free stories from its magazines for Pride Month, each featuring a two-mom family. And both the venerable Highlights magazines and the newer Kazoo are celebrating Pride in various ways as well.
Toy Story 4, the latest movie in Disney Pixar’s mega-franchise, includes a two-mom couple and their child. They’re background characters, but the fact that they are no big deal is in fact a pretty big deal.
Gender stereotypes surround our children, no matter how much we may try to shield them. A new picture book tries to counter some of the constraining gender messages they may receive.
The Bravest Knight, a children’s television series that centers on a family with same-sex parents, is premiering on Hulu June 21—the first such series on a mainstream network. I spoke with creator Daniel Errico about the show, his motivations, and working with the all-star voice cast.
I’m very excited to be bringing you the official, full-cover reveal of A Kid of Their Own, by Megan Dowd Lambert, her second picture book about a group of barnyard friends and the two farmers—a gay couple—who care for them. Lambert also shares with Mombian readers a little about her motivations, the importance of language when talking about adoptive families, and why her fictional world includes both anthropomorphic animals and humans.
Hopster, a learning and entertainment service for preschoolers, has today launched a variety of LGBTQ-inclusive animated stories, songs, and video books—watch two of their cute ones right here!
Children’s cartoon My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is introducing a same-sex couple in an episode airing this coming weekend. That’s reason to celebrate—even as it comes halfway through the show’s final season, following a long tradition of many children’s shows only including queer characters right before they end.
The number of children’s books about Pride has increased dramatically over the past few years. Here are some of the best.
Three new children’s books each offer different approaches as they highlight different aspects of gender identity and expression.
A look at the news over the past few weeks leaves no doubt that abortion rights are under attack. This makes a new book for teens about abortion rights and reproductive justice a superbly timely and important read. Even better, it’s by a queer mom whose other books you may have read!
