As a teacher, librarian, educator, or caregiver, how you interact with all children and teens around queerness matters. What literature you provide them with, and how you talk about both literature and identity, can have an immense, life-changing impact on the young people in your life... Whether or not they are out to themselves or you, you absolutely know queer children and interact with them in your classrooms, libraries, and communities.
Books and literature are never neutral. By engaging with queer literature for children and young adults, you are disrupting the status quo that implies being cisgender, heterosexual, and allosexual are the default. You are showing children an expanded way of thinking and being that validates all children and all people.
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