On April 22, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear the case of Mahmoud v. Taylor, deciding whether Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland have the right to include 9 LGBTQ+ picture books in the classroom, including Love, Violet, without advance notice to parents and the option to remove their children from… Read more »
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“When Work Isn’t Enough” | Creating Humanely
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 »
2023 Stonewall Book Award Speeches
In 2023, the American Library Association (ALA) awarded Love, Violet the Stonewall Book Award – Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children’s Literature Award. This was the honor of a lifetime! And it means many more children will enjoy Love, Violet — in spite of all the soft censorship and book bans. Illustrator Charlene Chua and I… Read more »
Why I Wrote LOVE, VIOLET
Back in 2011 when I began my first draft of Love, Violet, I knew exactly why I was writing it. I was a kid like Violet. I had young crushes on girls. But I never had a story like this one to show me that I wasn’t a mistake. That I could exist. That I… Read more »
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