welcome!

gender, society, and the binary: a two part event

registration is open!

next: thursday, April 8th

On the blog

Loading…

Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.

read along with us!

meeting monthly on sundays

starting april 4th

meet the tta crew!

> find out more about us

what do we look for in kid lit?

Shop TTA Curriculum & Merch!

#sweetsandsocialjustice

visit us on instagram!

Maxine and Leo are best friends (along with Milton the goldfish) and also complete opposites. Leo is gentle and creative, and Maxine is practical and mathematically minded. @littlefeministbookclub has kindly sent me this book (it’s one of their awesome subscription boxes), and it was published by @albertwhitman Waka is a Japanese-American sixth grader in rural Kansas in the 1980’s. At home, her family speaks Japanese almost exclusively, but Waka is behind in reading and writing in kanji. After a few incidents where Waka’s mother asks her in Japanese to help her with chores and she doesn’t answer (because who wants to fold and put away laundry when there are better things to do?) Waka is informed that she doesn’t know enough Japanese and is sent to live with her grandmother Obaasama in Tokyo for five months. For #SweetsAndSocialJustice this week, I want to kickoff what I’ve been calling in my brain an Earth Day social justice bonanza. Make sure you look for the earth icon I’ve put on the photo to be able to see the entire series of posts, culminating on a giant Earth Day roundup post! Get yourself a spouse that low key stalks you in the woods to get this sweet candid shot 🔥 Evelyn and Daniela are so close, they’re practically twins. The apartments across the street from each other are mirror images, and they even have secret hiding places for treasures that they find. But although today is mostly like every other day they spend together, it ends with Evelyn moving away. As a kid who also moved around a lot, I can relate to Daniela and Evelyn vowing to stay friends forever. Their mothers allow them to feel their feelings, but also assure both girls that they will make other friends. Anita enjoys sitting on the roof and watching the dragons in the sky. Sure, some people call them airplanes…but they look like dragons to Anita. This stunningly beautiful book follows Anita as she goes from just watching the dragons to finding out she’ll be boarding one with her family to leave the Dominican Republic and moving to the United States. This book tenderly addresses all of the feelings that arise with moving, as well as the specific experience of leaving behind everything you’ve ever known for an entirely new country. What can I possibly say about this book that hasn’t been said before? Yesterday, on its North American release date, Instagram was a veritable wall of beautiful book photos of this extremely needed story. Joe is simply trying to defeat some pirates and crocodiles (just a typical day, you see) but he keeps getting asked THAT question. Joe handles the situation with annoyance and resignation, but also sarcasm. By throwing questions back at nosy individuals, Joe pushes back on the ableist narrative that strangers are privy to an individual’s medical history on a whim. I have a lot of complicated feelings about America. I have complicated feelings about benefiting from a history of colonization and global imperialism, and a feeling of responsibility to in some small way dismantle the systemic oppression that built this land into what it is today. I have a hard time being patriotic when there are so many reasons not to be.