Here’s the book the haters have targeted next. A book about gender identity, teaching kids to love themselves and others. As soon as I saw this was their next target, I bought it. Please support inclusive authors. Don’t let them shut down freedom of speech amazon.com/dp/1250302951/…
But I didn’t buy it in revolt to the fascism of book burners. I bought it to read to children. The more kids know about more people, the more love & less bullying will occur. Hopefully, they wont grow up into hateful bigots like their poor parents are. Our kids are under attack.
But not only our kids, but also courageous authors who write or illustrate literature to broaden the minds and experiences of children, to teach them what acceptance and kindness are, to teach them to love all people like them or different.
When my youngest son was in a co-op preschool. I came to his class and read a book about a non speaking autistic kid to the class. And I talked to a room of mostly neutotypicals about all the awesome things about neurodivergent people.
The kids were at an age where many were not yet diagnosed. But I well recall having ADHD laid on me in first grade, and I hated that the words “deficit and disorder” described me. At first I asked what deficit meant, then it hurt when I knew.
When we read books about all kinds of people to children, it helps them to better understand and love themselves, and to understand and love others different from them. Humanizing all kinds of humans makes a child grow into a better human being.
I won’t live in a world where everyone looks, feels, acts, worships the same, and where children aren’t taught empathy and the humanization of those who differ from them. That’s why I am fighting the right wing dark money funded takeover of schools with all I am and all I have.
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