August 2024

“No More Ghosts” | Queer Childhood Out of the Closet

Posted by & filed under Book Bans & Censorship, LGBTQIAP2+, LOVE VIOLET, Picture Books.

Flahsback!  Read the essay here: WNDB: “NO MORE GHOSTS! A (Queer) Picture Book Love Story” We Need Diverse Books, Nov. 16, 2021   When I wrote this essay to celebrate the launch of our picture book, Love, Violet (Chua, FSG, 2022), the book bans and anti-LGBTQIAP2+ laws had just begun to surge. Since then, this movement has… Read more »

“When Work Isn’t Enough” | Creating Humanely

Posted by & filed under ALL, Disability, LGBTQIAP2+, LOVE VIOLET, On Creating, Picture Books, THE AMAZING IDEA OF YOU.

Flashback! “Creating Love (When Work Isn’t Enough)” Cynsations, Feb. 2022   “And what is art for anyway? A place we gather         to share the journey,         our pounding hearts.”   C. S. Wild I remember struggling so hard with this essay–it was winter, my “bad” health season. I wrote it… Read more »