Friday 5 | Mar 17th
5 Gender-Affirming Book Recommendations
✅ Autobiographic Book: I Am Jazz
Introducing concepts like gender fluidity can be great though the eyes of an autobiography! This children’s book takes a peak into the live of Jazz Jennings and her experience as a transgender child.
First-hand sharing is a great way to open up conversations with children about gender, identity, and who they are!
Purchase from local Black-Owned Bookstores, like Marcus Books, the nation’s oldest Black-owned independent bookstore in Oakland, CA (where The PEACE Program is based).
✅ Body Affirmation Book: Bodies Are Cool
Bodies ARE cool. This is a wonderful book for children of all ages that shares the wonderful diversity of bodies - from color to shape, clothing to decorations. It centers our humanity above all else and embraces differences and diversity as a strength.
This book focuses on all the cool things our bodies can do exactly how they are.
Purchase from local Black-Owned Bookstores, like Marcus Books, the nation’s oldest Black-owned independent bookstore in Oakland, CA (where The PEACE Program is based).
✅ Simple Pronoun Book: They She He Me: Free to Be
One of the exciting developments in the acquisition of language is when the child around 18 months announces “ME!” to the world! Their vocabulary begins to add pronouns and it is exciting to see the child’s independence in their identity, preferences, and choices (they make those very clear). This is a simple book that doesn’t give any academic definitions of pronouns and is instead, a super child-developmentally aligned book around expanding the child’s definition set of who might use various pronouns.
Purchase from local Black-Owned Bookstores, like Marcus Books, the nation’s oldest Black-owned independent bookstore in Oakland, CA (where The PEACE Program is based).
✅ Gender Affirmation Book: It Feel Good to Be Myself
In this wonderful book that actually addresses gender identity, children can see the variety of gender in their experiences. They can learn names and definitions of various gender identities and see beautiful illustrations that offer a variety of gender expressions. This is a great preschool-aged good (and beyond) and really makes it feel… good to be yourself!
Purchase from local Black-Owned Bookstores, like Marcus Books, the nation’s oldest Black-owned independent bookstore in Oakland, CA (where The PEACE Program is based).
✅ LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families Book: The Every Body Book
This is a fantastic resource to get support with language to talk about often uncomfortable topics with our kids! This book is written in an 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive way so that all families and children can see themselves represented and offer context for any body moving from a child to an adult (i.e. puberty). You can read sections at a time, or whole chapters and its a great resource and reference for talking about sex, gender, bodies (puberty), and families.
Purchase from local Black-Owned Bookstores, like Marcus Books, the nation’s oldest Black-owned independent bookstore in Oakland, CA (where The PEACE Program is based).
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