Politics in Practice
April 24, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor
It’s crucial to empower teens to find their voice and their community while advocating for their rights. It’s just as crucial to highlight queer joy and friendship, especially when readers are coming of age during turbulent times.
March 14, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor
In writing my contemporary YA novel, Just Another Epic Love Poem, I leaned into the granularity of my experience.
February 13, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor
We are here, and we are queer, and we can’t reduce our identities to the neat black-and-white that society would like us to. We can’t (and shouldn’t) reduce our stories, either.
February 7, 2024 by Amanda MacGregor
Queer stories can be joyful. We can celebrate that joy both looking backward toward the past, standing bravely in the present, and facing the future with hope and good care for each other, always.
December 7, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor
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.
November 1, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor
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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September 27, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor
Stories let us see ourselves doing things and having adventures. They let us imagine ourselves in those places and know that we are valid.
September 12, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor
These attacks, these attempts from a system that does not value so many of us creates a world where the outcome of these actions negatively affects us all, regardless of race, ethnicity, whether you’re queer or trans or not, whether you’re currently disabled or whether you’re currently not.
May 30, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor
This is my love letter to all the equestrians who haven’t seen themselves on the page. I’m going to need your help and support to get my books into the hands of kids who want and need them, so I hope you go on this ride with me.
May 30, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor
Growing up, I loved fairy tales and Greek myths. As a young queer person, I was keenly aware of how LGBTQIA+ characters never appeared in these stories.
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