I love this ad - and can only imagine how it would have BLOWN my mind when I was a kid (in the BEST way!)

check out this 30 second commercial: "Your Father"




Star Wars. Two Dads? WOW! Love love love love this.

Thanks to Jerry for sharing!

I, Emma Freke - A Middle Grade Book Where the Main Character's Friend Has Two Moms

I, Emma Freke by Elizabeth J. Atkinson

"Life wasn't always like this. In fact, when I was younger and shorter and dumber I usually had one or two friends to play with at recess. My grades were good, but nothing special. Then my height and brains took off one summer as if someone watered me with too much fertilizer. Even my dull hair turned redder. To make matters worse--to make matters impossibly worse--my name is Emma Freke. Like, if you say it slowly, Am a Freak."

Emma is 12, raised by a single mom, and her friend Penelope (who lives across the street with her two moms) is nine.

Emma's searching for her own identity, and gets invited to the Freke family reunion - her Father's side of the family, none of whom she's ever met.

While Emma desperately tries to find her niche, she discovers that perhaps its better to be her own "freak" than someone else's Freke.

Add your review of "I, Emma Freke" in comments!

Noah, A 15 Year Old, His Two Moms, And The Spoken Word Poem That Blew Me Away

Words.  Music.  Emotion.

As the finale of our National Poetry Month celebration here on the blog, watch this... and be amazed!



For his performance, Noah won the NPR storytelling series "Snap Judgement."

Namaste,
Lee

Transgender People Undergoing Forced Sterilization in... Sweden? (And France, the Netherlands, Australia, and some U.S. States)!!!

It's shocking how gender non-conformity is so threatening.

I had no idea this was going on.  Check out this article at Huffington Post Gay Voices, about transgender actress Aleksa Lundberg and how she's fighting the laws that force transgender people like her to never be biological parents.

Wow.

Evidently, Italy and Germany just overturned similar laws.

There's lots of work still to do, and lots injustice still to fight.

Namaste,
Lee

p.s. - My thanks to Karol for sharing this with me, so I could share it with all of you.