Flamingo Rampant, a micropress that makes “feminist, racially diverse books featuring LGBT2Q kids and families with celebratory, joyful story lines” is launching a Kickstarter for their second season of books. I’m very excited.
Let’s end National Adoption Month with a recommendation for a sweet picture book about two adopted sisters with two moms.
In the wake of the election, children’s authors and illustrators are pledging to use their talents to help eliminate fear and hatred and to spread understanding and empathy.
A new middle-grade book about a transgender boy is a positive, hopeful story of coming of age and transitioning. Put this one on your reading list.
October is LGBTQ History Month, so why not share some LGBTQ history with your kids? Here are some histories and biographies for a variety of ages.
Continuing the ongoing story of if and how children’s magazines include LGBTQ families and people: An editor at Cricket Media has contacted me to say they’d love submissions of stories about LGBTQ families
After an Internet uproar over the past few days over Highlights magazine’s initially weak response to why they haven’t included LGBTQ families in their pages, I reached out to Cricket Media, another long-time behemoth in children’s magazine publishing, to see if they had ever done so. Here’s what they said.
Many of us, I imagine, remember Highlights magazine from our youth. The publication gave one queer mom a less than satisfactory answer about why they haven’t included LGBTQ families on their pages—and LGBTQ families are responding.
The Jewish High Holiday season is this week, so let’s take a look at some new stories that feature queer, Jewish families, including a children’s picture book and a grown-up memoir by a woman with four lesbian moms.
A new children’s picture book about human bodies includes transgender and gender nonconforming people as well as same-sex parents. That’s a rare and wonderful thing, making this a welcome book, despite a few caveats.
