Written and illustrated by Innosanto NagaraĪ is for Activist is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for. In friendship, the two of them begin making dresses together.
“You shouldn’t be thinking about dresses at all.” Then Bailey meets Laurel, an older girl who is touched and inspired by Bailey’s imagination and courage.
“You’re a BOY!” Mother and Father tell Bailey. Written by Marcus Ewert / Illustrated by Rex RayĮvery night, Bailey dreams about magical dresses: dresses made of crystals and rainbows, dresses made of flowers, dresses made of windows… Unfortunately, when Bailey’s awake, no one wants to hear about these beautiful dreams. Don’t have small humans of your own to shop for? Queer picture books make great gifts (the shopping process is far less anxiety-inducing than trying to find suitable clothes, I promise) or your community library might have some use for them. Try requesting them at non-specialist bookstores, too, so that other kids might find them. Buying them on Amazon through the affiliate links in this post will give Autostraddle a small kickback (thank you!), but if you’d rather shop local, plenty of our Queer Girl City Guides will point you to your closest queer bookstore. That’s where these LGBTQ-friendly books come in.įrom personal experience, most of these titles will likely be hard to find in store. And for many of us and the kids in our lives - queer kids, kids of queer parents, kids who don’t otherwise belong to heterosexual two-parent families, kids with other queer relations - these “sensitive topics” don’t just exist in the abstract: they’re our lives! We owe it to these kids to help them make as much sense of themselves, their families and our society as possible. There’s so much I want to share with them, and it’s rarely easy to figure out how.Īdults can debate endlessly about when it’s appropriate to “expose” children to “sensitive” topics like sex and sexuality, gender expression and diversity, non-conventional methods of conception and so on, but kids don’t live in isolated bubbles - they’re right here in our complex, messy world with us. I was one of those kids who inhaled books growing up - as I suspect many of you were too - but now as an adult in bookstores and libraries I’m often exasperated at the options available to my younger siblings.
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