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Let’s let strong Filipino girls be. Let’s let every strong kid be. Every child has a story to tell, and they all deserve to see themselves in the books they read, just like you and me.
Middle school is the toughest age to build a collection for readers as a school librarian. Yes, I said it.
The evolution of The Selkie’s Daughter began when a girl appeared to me during my morning journaling time, standing on a cliff, hurling a prayer over the raging sea, “Bring him home, bring him home, bring him home!”
Systemic racism has created a maze that entraps all of us. When we think we have found a way out, we find ourselves going down another path that we must make sense of. To find a way out requires a reckoning.
"I think we would have been preteen pals, and had we met earlier, we could have cheered each other on through our creative insecurities."
The Southern American story, like all human tales, is a complex and interwoven narrative, full of opportunities for self-discovery… when we allow ourselves to look.
Transitioning is a lot more complicated than facile narratives about "queer joy" or how #ItGetsBetter.
Together, let's embark on a journey where every story is heard, celebrated, and woven into the vibrant tapestry of our collective human history.
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.
Like Kevin McCallister and Mary Lennox, Josephine is transformed by challenges. I suppose we all are, but even so, there is sweetness in this life.
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