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Articles by Hal Schrieve
All Children Are Beautiful
Most of us discovered politics as adults, so it can be hard to know where to begin with kids. Innosanto Nagara’s A is for Activist is perhaps the most famous and parodied political book for children, rattling off dozens of words that mean little to them (“A is for Activist. Advocate. Abolitionist. Ally.”) while appealing to their parents’ politics.
Bechdel Beyond Bechdel
In 2015, I was dating a much older trans man; he paid for a ticket for 19-year-old me to shake hands with Alison Bechdel at a meet and greet. Bechdel seemed actively terrified when I told her that she’d changed my life. I still find it hard to resist recommending her comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, to absolutely everyone.
8 Books That Queer the Vampire
Vampires are a mixed signifier. They can represent sinister, unstoppable power or conquerable vice. While their folkloric iterations were possible to ward off with garlic and other household items, as the figure of the vampire has evolved into modernity it has become chained to its victims by bonds of power and desire. Eighteenth century Europe imagined vampires as physically grotesque, but by the nineteenth century, the German literary imagination was already transforming them.
Weird Passover
Hal Schrieve is a librarian in New York and finds Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg to be hir most relevant religious text. Hir first book, Out of Salem, was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Hal’s comics are featured in We’re Still Here: an all-trans comics anthology and the zine Very Online, and hir webcomic Vivian’s Ghost won the Cartoonist Studio Award for Best Webcomic in 2023.
How to Get Over the End of the World
(Author) FORMAT Hardcover$19.95$18.55(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Boldly weird, cool, and confident, this YA novel of LGBTQ+ teen artists, activists, and telepathic visionaries offers hope against climate and community destruction. From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Out of Salem. James Goldberg, self-described neurotic goth gay transsexual stoner, is a senior in high school, and fully over it.
imaginary teen girls 1: trans desistance, tummy holes, and Arkansas
Lots happened this week. Derek Chauvin is on trial for the murder of George Floyd, in which the prosecution is showing the nine-minute video of him kneeling on Floyd’s neck while an EMT begs him to check Floyd’s pulse. The defense argues that George Floyd, the murder victim, might have done drugs at some point.
Kids Books About Food & Cooking That Bring A Lot to the Table
Quarantine and social distancing during the pandemic has disrupted daily schedules for everyone—but especially for families with young children. Whether adult caregivers are workers making daily commutes while finding childcare, or trying to juggle enrichment activities for bored children with their own at-home work, habits around play, family togetherness, and work-life balance can be thrown totally out of wack.
8 Queer YA Fantasy Titles Released in 2019 You Should Read
This collection of 2019 queer YA fantasy is sponsored by JIMMY Patterson Books. In this mesmerizing sequel to the New York Times bestselling Girls of Paper and Fire, Lei and Wren have escaped their oppressive lives in the Hidden Palace, but soon learn that freedom comes with a terrible cost. Lei is known as the commoner who managed to do what no one else could. But slaying the cruel Demon King wasn’t the end of the plan—it’s just the beginning.
Out of Salem
"A genderqueer zombie and a lesbian werewolf resist a corrupt government that wants to incinerate them in this debut novel by Schrieve. Any day now, Z, a white, 14-year-old zombie, might fall apart without the intervention of illegal necromancy to hold them together. Their whole family died in a car crash that should have killed them too. In their anti-monster small town of Salem, Oregon, Z's only allies are their caretaker, Mrs.
The realest queer YA novels about living in community
I don’t usually love coming-out stories, since the coming-out narrative tends to replace anything else that happens for trans people, but this one shines—in part because Sasha Masha’s emergence precedes her contact with queer community, but only starts to actually makes sense in the context of knowing other gay and trans people. It’s one of the only trans girl YA novels I know of, and it feels like it’s written for someone who is, like Sasha, half-out and tripping down the final steps.
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