does anybody have some spare F&Gs they’d like to donate to a good cause? i’m teaching a middle school elective next year re: bookmaking and i’d love to do some collage work with them! any children’s lit things out there we can cut up? 👀👀
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elm like the tree. nonbinarian school librarian. magister of kidlit MAMFA via simmons. sailor. seabird. selkie. scrivener. scholar. ATHLETE IS AGENDER ‘25 – Christy Ottaviano Books/Little, Brown BYR BEYOND THEY / THEM ‘25 – Andrews McMeel seeking rep
![I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they’re as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation. They’re breaking down—I don’t have the word for it right now—but it’s gender prejudice, and [the idea that] somebody has decided that they can tell you who you are, what your name should be, and how you should look.
And those youngsters are saying, “No, I can decide who I am, what my name should be.” Everybody’s mad at me like, You should be a girl because we’ve decided you’re a girl. And they say, “Well, who the hell are you?” I can decide that I’m a boy. And if it makes me happy, what does it mean to you? And I can decide that my name is John. And if you don’t like that my name is Geraldine, why can’t you name yourself? And if the people who know you and love you—or have to talk to you, maybe they don’t even love you but they have to talk to you—you can tell them, “This is my name, and I would like to be referred to in that way.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ykfmixrgdpqrz3d5n7qnzfqq/bafkreieyny6b426wt7yanvwv2uvbi4gm5ofyk7istzf3dcx3oi47v474cm)
