Queer Library Alliance Goes to School

Queer Library Alliance Goes to School

Rae-Anne MontagueThaddeus Andracki

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• Selecting materials with GLBTQ content to support curricular and personal goals

• Challenges to providing access to resources

• Developing collections and programming with GLBTQ content aligned with community needs

Topics

Intersectionality

“Consider an analogy to traffic in an intersection, coming and going in all four directions. Discrimination, like traffic through an intersection, may flow in one direction, and it may flow in another. If an accident happens in an intersection, it can be caused by cars traveling from any number of directions and sometimes, from all of them” (Crenshaw 1989).

Selection: Awards

The Rainbow List

Goodreads for Collection Development and Readers’ Advisory

• https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3392.LGBT_for_YA#17237214

• https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/15647.LGBT_Young_Adult_YA_Literature#17237214

• https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/653.Best_YA_Fiction_with_GLBTQQI_themes_characters?#17237214

Queer Library Alliance Wiki• http://queerliballiance.wikispot.org/Kids_and_Young_Adult_Books

Professional Resources for Selection

• Jaime Naidoo, Rainbow Collections

• Carlisle Webber, GLBTQ Teen Literature: A Guide to Reading Interests

• Christine Jenkins and Michael Cart’s new bibliography (see handout)

Authors to Know

• Malindo Lo• David Levithan• Hannah

Moskowitz• Scott Tracey• Lesléa Newman• Libba Bray• Maureen

Johnson

• Julie Ann Peters• Francesca Lia

Block• Alex Sanchez• Todd Parr• Cris Beam• Brent Hartinger• Bill Konigsberg• Michael

Willhoite• Tomie dePaola• Nancy Garden• Ellen Wittlinger

Films

Comics and Graphic Novels

Comics and Graphic Novels

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While it’s important for all students to have access to a broad range of resources, as Rauch (2010) describes, it is essential for GLBTQ students to see themselves reflected in print and other media to affirm their identities.

Not Recommended

Making Curricular Connections

• Recommended YA Nonfiction with LGBTQ Content (Jenkins & Cart)

http://go.illinois.edu/lgbtq_ya_nf

Making Curricular Connections

• Reading Group Guides: • http://books.simonandschuster.com

/Aristotle-and-Dante-Discover-the-Secrets-of-the/Benjamin-Alire-Saenz/9781442408937/reading_group_guide

• http://books.simonandschuster.com/Perfect/Ellen-Hopkins/9781416983255/reading_group_guide

Making Curricular Connections

Challenges

https://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/dont-filter-me

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_s_palm_beach_county/boca_raton/fau-gay-student-claims-university-library-turned-him-away-for-looking-like-a-woman

http://www.hrc.org/files/assets/resources/school_anti-bullying_laws_062013.pdf

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/08/21/book-publisher-cancels-release-of-novel-rather-than-allow-gay-author-to-mention-his-partner-in-bio

Programming

Pinterest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_VLQcBhIig

Jane Addams was a pioneer settlement worker, founder Hull

House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author,

and leader in women’s suffrage, and world peace. In 1931 she

became the first American woman to be

awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Jane Addams1884—1962

Guillermo Diaz is a Cuban-American Actor. He started in

several 90’s cult-classic films including Party Girl and Half Baked. He currently stars in the ABC drama Scandal, as Huck. Diaz is openly gay, but told OUT magazine that the fact

that he grew up in a rough neighborhood made it necessary to hide his orientation. "That facade of being somebody I’m really not just to protect myself definitely helped

with acting.”

Guillermo Diaz1975-

Janet Mock1984-

Janet Mock is a writer, a transgender rights advocate, and the

former staff editor of People magazine's website. She has degrees from the

University of Hawaii and New York

University’s graduate school of journalism.

Gene Robinso

n1947-

Gene Robinson is an American retired bishop in the Episcopal Church. Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and

succeeded as diocesan bishop in March 2004. Robinson is widely

known for being the first priest in an openly gay relationship to be consecrated a bishop in a major

Christian denomination.

Tammy Baldwin is the junior United States

Senator from Wisconsin and a member of the

Democratic Party. She is the first woman elected

to represent Wisconsin in the Senate and the first openly gay U.S. Senator

in history.

Tammy Baldwin1962-

George Takei1937-

George Takei is an American actor and author, best known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek.

He is an out gay man and a proponent of gay rights. Active in both state and local politics, he has won

several awards and accolades in his work on

human rights and Japanese–American

relations.

Rachel Maddow

1973-

Rachel Maddow is an American television host, political commentator

and author. She hosts a nightly television show, The Rachel Maddow Show, on MSNBC. Her syndicated talk

radio program of the same name aired on Air American Radio. Maddow is the

first openly gay anchor to host a major prime-time news program

in the United States.

James Baldwin 1924-1987

James Baldwin was an American novelist,

essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Baldwin's essays, such as the collection Notes

of a Native Son, explored palpable yet

unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western

societies.

Frida Kahlo1907-1954

Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán. 

Perhaps best known for her self-portraits, Kahlo's work is remembered for its "pain and

passion", and its intense, vibrant colors. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by

feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and

form.

Barney Frank is an American politician who

served as a member of the U.S. House of

Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981-

2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as chairman of the House of

Financial Representatives Committee (2007–2011).

Frank, is considered the most prominent gay politician in

the United States.

Barney Frank1940-

Questions, comments, concerns, hopes, dreams, desires,

aspirations, rants, anything else you’d like to share?

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