I keep seeing this all over my Facebook. I believe in family so I’m not shopping on Thanksgiving. They’re visiting family, and traveling, and shopping on “Black Friday” but nope, not shopping on Thanksgiving because “Everyone Deserves a Holiday.” Think about that for a minute. EVERYONE DESERVES A HOLIDAY. Yes, they do. Does everyone GET […]
Category: Advocacy
Hope Through Stories — Joelle Charbonneau
I can’t write any better than others about what happened in Ferguson. I feel that The Brown family was robbed, and I hope that the DOJ can take up the case. If you want to help, donate to the Ferguson Library, which is open today while schools are closed, and has been open during riots […]
Symposium Sign-Off & Giveaway
So, the YALSA YA Literature Symposium was AH_MA_ZING, and I am still on a high from the sessions- it was by far the most exciting thing and INTENSE as well. Aside from the fact that we were all in the same place (which was wonderful), everything was really tightly focused, all the presenters and sessions […]
GenreQueer: Consider This
Along with the wonderful and brilliant Katelyn Browne, Malinda Lo (Ash, Adaption), Robin Talley (Lies We Tell Ourselves), Kristen Elizabeth Clark (Freakboy), I am speaking on Sunday at the YALSA Young Adult Literature Symposium. How I got to be up there with all these awesome people I’m not sure, but I get to bask […]
Deep in the Heart of Texas- YALSA YA Lit Symposium
I, for one, am completely excited for this weekend. YALSA’s YA Lit Symposium is coming to Austin, and that is close enough to drive- well, at least for That Guy, Willow (our new rescue dog), and me, we love road trips. That Guy and I lived in Austin for the first few years we lived […]
When The Best List Is Wrong
So I’ve been mulling over this article for a while. If you haven’t seen it, it’s called The Top Ten LGBT Characters in Young Adult Literature, written by Madison Gallup in Entertainment Monthly, for Emerson College. It was published on October 20th, and has been popping up in a couple of places that I’m familiar […]
A Higher Standard
I grew up in a sports house. Neither my dad nor anyone on his side played, nor did anyone on my mom’s, but come Sunday, the TV was either on NASCAR or The Bears game. I grew up with Dale “The Intimidator” Earnhardt, Richard Petty, Bill Elliott, and Dale Jarrett. We knew the names and numbers […]
GLBT-RT Call for Committee Volunteers
Have an interest in GLBTQI/ Quiltbag books for youth and teens? Are you a member of the American Library Association or can be? Are you a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bixsexual and Transgender Round Table or can be? Then consider volunteering to be a part of either the Rainbow Project or the Stonewall Youth […]
Audacity to Believe
In this week, when we still have riots and need the National Guard in Ferguson, when journalists are beheaded across the sea, and everything seems lost, I take hope in these words. I have to have faith in these words. I have to have the audacity to believe. For if I don’t, how can […]
Why Ferguson Is Important
In the more than 10 years I’ve been a degreed librarian, and the 20 that I’ve been paid to work in various libraries, I’ve had friends discriminated against for their race, their sex, their preferences, and their looks. They’ve been harassed and threatened for: holding hands kissing in public being more than 3 people together […]