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From: Elliott BatTzedek <ebattzedek>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:41:15 -0400
I just finished reading Luna, and passed to my neighbor's 14 year-old = daughter, with whom I've spent a lot of time since she was a toddler. = Her older brother/sister has recently begun identifying as trans, and it = has been a very difficult time for my friend. (Not just the trans issue, = but general family dynamics and her brother/sister's history of = emotional and mental health problems). We both loved the book, = especially the author's brave choice to have Regan be more than an = all-supporting martyr. That Regan has a life of her own, that she loves = and supports and fights with and is furious at Liam/Luna is very real, = and certainly flies in the face of many "hot issue" novels which are so = concerned with being sympathetic/didactic.
=20 As a lesbian myself, I second the mention of Empress of the World. = There weren't lesbian novels when I was a teen (I didn't even know the = word); that a lesbian YA novel could be about a crush and how it plays = out without painful, humiliating coming out scenes, shows how very far = we've come. That it is withheld from so many actual young adults, of = course, shows how very far we have to go.
Elliott batTzedek Content Supervisor Children's Literacy Initiative 215V1F76 ext. 114
Received on Thu 01 Jul 2004 03:41:15 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:41:15 -0400
I just finished reading Luna, and passed to my neighbor's 14 year-old = daughter, with whom I've spent a lot of time since she was a toddler. = Her older brother/sister has recently begun identifying as trans, and it = has been a very difficult time for my friend. (Not just the trans issue, = but general family dynamics and her brother/sister's history of = emotional and mental health problems). We both loved the book, = especially the author's brave choice to have Regan be more than an = all-supporting martyr. That Regan has a life of her own, that she loves = and supports and fights with and is furious at Liam/Luna is very real, = and certainly flies in the face of many "hot issue" novels which are so = concerned with being sympathetic/didactic.
=20 As a lesbian myself, I second the mention of Empress of the World. = There weren't lesbian novels when I was a teen (I didn't even know the = word); that a lesbian YA novel could be about a crush and how it plays = out without painful, humiliating coming out scenes, shows how very far = we've come. That it is withheld from so many actual young adults, of = course, shows how very far we have to go.
Elliott batTzedek Content Supervisor Children's Literacy Initiative 215V1F76 ext. 114
Received on Thu 01 Jul 2004 03:41:15 PM CDT
