i love clothes all my life i have loved clothes my mother sewed for me when i was young wide leg bell bottoms and butterfly sleeved pinafores at 13 i started sewing all my own clothes overalls, walking skirts, bolivian milkmaid jackets dressing is an art to me it …
AS A PEOPLE, WE ARE IN DIRE NEED OF LGBT CHILDREN’S BOOKS, ESPECIALLY FROM COMMUNITIES OF COLOR!!! I want to begin by shouting that out BIG AND BOLD! #LGBTkidlit #LGBTofcolorkidlit #LGBTlatinokidlit #LGBTQIkidlit #LGBTfamiliesofcolor I knew what I would find when I began researching LGBTQI children’s literature to include in my …
Like nearly everything in life, I approached ALSC’s Day of Diversity as ritual. The invitation to co-facilitate one of the break-out sessions was the doorway in. The very early preparation began. Flights and hotel were booked. I worked with my co-facilitators, Roxana Barillas and Gretchen Caserotti to craft our session. …
[28 days ’till Daily Peace] Several students that I’ve worked with regularly over this last year are aspiring children’s book makers and yet our first time working with each other came through the Believing is Seeing e-course. Because of how I approach children’s books, working with peace and how we …
I have been having a lot of thoughts, a lot of feelings, a lot of everything lately! I’ve got about 5 blog posts in different stages of completion, but I love the ones that just pop out with barely any effort. This is one of those. I had this idea. …
i believe everything is connected and that our life, if viewed through a particular lens, can expose the mythology of our deeper being and life experience. today feels mythic. elements from different parts of my life feel like they’re rising up around me and i can see clearly the threads …
these days I wake up wondering if Darren Wilson is going to be indicted. it’s a strange thing to have in the back of my head as i get up to take care of my one year old, sky. but it reminds me where we are as a people right …
you can order it now through lee and low! yay!!! and you can learn about it being GENDER FREE! from my letter to my readers too! i’m so excited! i want to hug all the trees in my world. they are such amazing teachers! want more info? check out the …
i shared the stage today with 4 fabulous kidlit makers. 3 of whom were there to share their first book! i was so HAPPY for them! emily jiang and april chu are the author and artist respectively, of ‘summoning the phoenix: poems and prose about chinese musical instruments.’ emily is …
While my first Heart of It e-course officially ended back in May, that was by no means the end of the experience! Over twenty artistauthors decided to contribute to our first ever Heart of It collection children’s book. (The “official” title is yet to be decided.) Since the end of …
