In the spring semester of 2018, my Master's Degree class was Young Adults in the Library. For one of my projects, I assembled a reading list of Young Adult books that were both LGBTQ in nature as well as diverse and created the below graphic for them. I read each of these books before recommending…Read more Diverse LGBTQ YA books
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Representation Matters
I haven't written a new post in a while. My original goal was to make sure I had at least one new post a month. Life got overwhelming early this year, and it was all I could do to keep up with the must-do list. Many of my other life goals had to be postponed…Read more Representation Matters
A Saturday Musical Interlude
It's no secret that the Beatles are my favorite band. I saw Yellow Submarine as a toddler.(I was sick and my mom found it on TV, looking for some sort of cartoon for sick kid - back in the days of three, maybe 4 channels and zero control over media...) Apparently, I was mesmerized. Just…Read more A Saturday Musical Interlude
Visibility
I've been swamped with work lately, so I haven't had time to write for a while. Today, 31 March, is Transgender Day of Visibility. I have mixed feelings about posting regarding Trans visibility. I spent a significant portion of my life "stealth", ie, not detectable as trans and passing as cisgender. I was blessed with…Read more Visibility
How Terribly Lonely
"How compact your bodies are, and what a variety of senses you have. This thing you call language though, most remarkable. You depend on it for so very much, but are any one of you really its master? But most of all, the aloneness. You are so alone. You live out your lives in this…Read more How Terribly Lonely