by Cameron Parkins | Apr 30, 2022 | Book Review
Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story, by Jacob Tobia. Published by Putnam Books at Penguin Random House, 2019. Born in 1991, and growing up near Raleigh, North Carolina, Jacob’s first memories are of being a child with too much gender. Their femininity came as naturally...
by Cameron Parkins | Apr 1, 2022 | Book Review
All Boys Aren’t Blue, A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson. Published by Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, 2020. In the introduction, author George M. Johnson writes, “My struggles are that of Black men and queer men and people who exist at the...
by Cameron Parkins | Mar 20, 2022 | Book Review, Trans Creator Spotlight
How I Came to Write the Book “Jazz Mergirl” about Jazz Jennings By J e r n i An unexpected and puzzling thing happened to me back in 2015. I wrote a nonfiction book titled Jazz Mergirl, the true story of Jazz Jennings and others who are transgender. (Jazz’s nickname...
by Cameron Parkins | Mar 5, 2022 | Book Review
Too Bright To See, by Kyle Lukoff. Published by Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2021. It’s the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug’s best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to...
by Cameron Parkins | Feb 4, 2022 | Book Review
Boys Run the Riot (Manga) written and illustrated by Keito Gaku, Leo McDonagh (Translation) Published in English in four volumes by Kodansha Comics, 2021 and 2022. As this adventure begins, artistically talented transgender teen Ryo (AFAB) struggles to understand and...
by Cameron Parkins | Jan 6, 2022 | Book Review
This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us by Katherine Locke and Nicole Melleby (authors and editors) and authors Eric Bell, Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Ashley Herring Blake, Lisa Bunker, Alex Gino, Juntina Ireland, Shing Yin Khor, Mariama J. Lockington,...
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