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MORE 'LGBTQIA' POSTS

    Take Five: LGBTQIA+ Middle Grade Novels

    Amanda MacGregor, April 19, 2024 | Take 5

    What a wonderful world we live in to see so much great representation in middle grade.

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    Book Review: Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans

    Amanda MacGregor, December 11, 2023 | Book Reviews, Uncategorized

    A highly anxious teen with a long list of fears is forced to tackle them all at once (and add new ones) when they witness the murder (Fear #3) of a neighbor.

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    Book Review: LGBTQIA+ Books for Children and Teens, Second Edition by Kathleen Breitenbach and Liz Deskins

    Amanda MacGregor, December 7, 2023 | Book Reviews

    Thorough and easy to use, this guide should be something read by anyone working with (or raising!) children of any age. A superb crash course in the past few years of books featuring LGBTQIA+ stories. Don't miss this one.

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    Book Review: The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar

    Amanda MacGregor, December 5, 2023 | Book Reviews

    Things heat up in Bangladeshi Irish Shireen Malik’s life when she’s cast in a televised teen baking show alongside her ex-girlfriend.

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    Asexuality and the Rules to Happiness, a guest post by Amanda DeWitt

    Amanda MacGregor, November 29, 2023 | Guest Post

    It’ll always be important to me to write stories that tell the truth: there is no should, there is no supposed to, and there are no rules to happiness.

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    Intergenerational contact and queer YA, a guest post by Hal Schrieve

    Amanda MacGregor, November 1, 2023 | Guest Post

    I get excited whenever I see complicated intergenerational queer existence reflected in books for young people. I felt motivated to write my own.

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    Book Review: The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Transgender Studies

    Amanda MacGregor, October 10, 2023 | Book Reviews

    An essential, insightful overview of current issues in the field of Transgender Studies.

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    Seeing Yourself in a Story, a guest post by Michelle Mohrweis

    Amanda MacGregor, September 27, 2023 | Guest Post

    Stories let us see ourselves doing things and having adventures. They let us imagine ourselves in those places and know that we are valid.

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    Grief, Hope, and Bittersweet Endings, a guest post by Victoria Wlosok

    Amanda MacGregor, September 22, 2023 | Guest Post

    How to Find a Missing Girl can be fun, silly, and fast-paced and defined by grief and hope. The feelings are still there. They can co-exist. I know they do.

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    Book Review: The Year My Life Went Down the Toilet by Jake Maia Arlow

    Amanda MacGregor, August 21, 2023 | Book Reviews

    This is a great look at coping with illness, connecting with others, adjusting to new realities and identities, and accepting the infinite change that comes with being a person (and not a supercomputer without a body, Al's one true wish in life).

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