{"id":29140,"date":"2021-10-25T11:52:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29140"},"modified":"2021-10-25T11:52:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:52:06","slug":"hes-not-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/25\/hes-not-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"He’s Not Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Very Intersectional Caterpillar: Lefty children\u2019s literature is coming to a library near you.<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Recently, I perused three emails from bookstores offering children\u2019s book recommendations from a national \u201cIndie Next\u201d program organized by the American Booksellers Association (ABA). Amid 93 new books, all published since May, I couldn\u2019t find one that would appeal to my boys. The choices included a \u201cfeel-good contemporary romance\u201d about a young trans athlete fighting against a \u201cdiscriminatory law targeting trans athletes\u201d; a book about a young lesbian with pansexual and nonbinary friends who denounced her white privilege; a \u201cqueer coming of age story\u201d about a young lesbian who joins the boy\u2019s football team; a young-adult novel about genderfluidity by a non-binary writer who is the mother of a transgender child; a \u201ctale of self-discovery\u201d about a bisexual love triangle; a book about a transgender witch named Wyatt; and a \u201cfabulously joyful\u201d novel about \u201cdrag, prom, and embracing your inner queen\u201d that featured \u201ca fat, openly gay boy stuck in a small West Texas town.\u201d Other titles included the tale of a Puerto Rican eighth-grader who \u201cnavigates . . . the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn\u201d; a young-adult thriller with a bisexual protagonist that explores the \u201cpolitics of systemic racism\u201d; and Don\u2019t Hate the Player, a novel about gamers I thought would appeal to the boys until I realized it was about a young feminist battling misogyny from the \u201cmale-dominated gaming community.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My son, a sophomore now (WHAT? He’s only five, ainna?), and for an English project, he was allowed to choose from a menu of books to read, with wide ranging topics from all cops are bastards to all soldiers are war criminals to coming of age and coming out. When I was in high school, I read Last of the Mohicans<\/em> as a sophomore and A Tale of Two Cities<\/em> as a freshman–among other things.<\/p>\n

The good news is that he and a number of his classmates see it for what it is and aren’t especially duped by it.<\/p>\n

They’re not becoming readers, either, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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