Category: LGBTQ

ONE TRUE WAY by Shannon Hitchcock

Coming out in the 1970’s was not safe and certainly not accepted.  Girls who liked girls were not only considered weird or strange, but even immoral or mentally ill.  Usually their choice was to change, pretend to change, or remain…

GROUNDWOOD BOOKS a publisher to know

Groundwood Books celebrate diversity. In the words of Sheila Barry, Publisher, their commitment is to publish “the most exciting Canadian voices we can find. Whether it’s a picture book from Nunavut in the Arctic or a Carnival story about a…

Jacob’s New Dress

Guest Post by Padma Venkatraman JACOB’S NEW DRESS By Sarah and Ian Hoffman (illustrated by Chris Case) 2014 978-0-8075-6373-1 Albert Whitman and Company   Nearly a decade ago, we were visited by dear friends, whose son was gender-nonconforming. Like Jacob,…