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Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake

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Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake

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The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake

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The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James by Ashley Herring Blake

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focusing on a twelve-year-old girl who recently received a heart transplant, The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James gives age appropriate sapphic representation to middle grade students in a way I wish more authors would replicate. The novel starts with Sunny having 3 goals for her "New Life Plan": 1. Do awesome amazing things she could never do before; 2.Find a new best friend; and 3. kiss a boy for the first time. But what happens when Sunny isn't sure whether she wants to kiss a boy after all? And what happens when maybe the person Sunny wants to kiss IS her new best friend?

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LGBTQ+ Representation in Kid's Media IS IMPORTANT! - QUEER KID STUFF for GROWN UPS

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LGBTQ+ Representation in Kid's Media IS IMPORTANT! - QUEER KID STUFF for GROWN UPS

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LGBTQ+ Representation in Kid's Media IS IMPORTANT! - QUEER KID STUFF for GROWN UPS

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The Hyper-sexualisation and Distortion of the Lesbian Identity

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The Hyper-sexualisation and Distortion of the Lesbian Identity

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A posted by Sapphic Underground discussing how the media representation of the lesbian identity affects societal views of the lesbian identity.

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The Hyper-sexualisation and Distortion of the Lesbian Identity

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As A Young Lesbian Queer Representation Saved Me by Noelle Johnson

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As A Young Lesbian Queer Representation Saved Me by Noelle Johnson

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A Tedx Talk discussing Queer Representation and the effect it can have on youth.

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As a Young Lesbian Queer Representation Saved Me | Noelle Johnson | TEDxSyracuseUniversity

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Lesbian Literature: A Brief History! by Sapphic Underground

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Lesbian Literature: A Brief History! by Sapphic Underground

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This video gives, you guessed it, a brief history of lesbian literature! I really like how this video explains lesbian literature and think it's very beneficial watch, unfortunately due to some explicit language I would be cautious when showing it K-12 students as an educational resource.

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How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby

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How to Become a Planet by Nicole Melleby

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I cannot sing praise for this book enough. Written in a way that accurately portrays the Middle School mind and experience, Melleby creates a world where queer students, students with non-traditional family structures, and students with disabilities, specifically those of the mental health nature, can see themselves represented in an appropriate, positive way. The book centers on Pluto the summer before 8th grade. At the start of the book when we meet Pluto she is introduced as having depression and the entire novel centers around her trying to become "her normal self" so she can start 8th grade on time and not have to move in with her dad and stepmom in the big city. I think one of my favorite parts of this book is that it talks about Pluto going to therapy and taking antidepressants! While Children's and YA literature has gotten significantly better at including representation of mental disabilities, there is still a huge lack of discussion surrounding actually getting help and treating those mental illnesses, especially by taking medication.

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What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Literary Criticism

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What Has Never Been: An Overview of Lesbian Feminist Literary Criticism

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This article, taken from Feminist Studies published by Feminist Studies, Inc., focuses on how the Lesbian perspective influences how society reads and writes literature. Drawing comparisons from a feminist perspective and focusing on the lens of life absent of the influence of men, the article is a great way to see how lesbians have historically made their mark in history and how others have tried to erase it.

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JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

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Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi

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Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi

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Tell Me How You Really Feel features the classic All-American cheerleader and Edgy art girl trope. Sana Khan is a cheerleader and straight-A student determined to succeed in all she does, while Rachel Recht is completely absorbed in her senior film project. The thing you don't expect, however, is that years ago Rachel was the first girl Sana ever asked out. Unfortunately Rachel thought it was a joke and the two have been feuding ever since. Too bad Sana would be the perfect lead for Rachels film...

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Margaret is a small town "farm-kid" just surviving life, that is until her first love, Courtney, comes back to town. Courtney Carrington is everything Margaret is not, smart, popular, beautiful and confident. Coming back to the town just as suddenly as she left, Courtney has returned to take control of her families store after her father passes. What happens when Margaret and Courtney are forced to face how they left things so many years ago?

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The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life by Dani Jansen

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The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life by Dani Jansen

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Allison Green has her eye on one thing and one thing only, the title of Valedictorian. That is ultimately what drives her to agree to produce her school's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Unfortunately Allison may have bitten off more than she can chew with this particular project, especially as she gets closer and closer to her long-time crush Charlotte.

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Lesbianism, History, and Censorship: "The Well of Loneliness" and the Suppressed Randiness of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"

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Lesbianism, History, and Censorship: "The Well of Loneliness" and the Suppressed Randiness of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"

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This 27 page chapter located in Twentieth Century Literature published by Duke University Press in the Winter of 1994 discusses how society viewed different portrayals of "lesbianism" and pondered on why some novels, like Radclyffe Hall's The Well Of Loneliness , were censored and others, like Virginia Woolf's Orlando, were not.

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This spin-off of Simon Vs The Homosapien Agenda  stars Leah Burke, Simon Spiers best friend. Leah is a self-proclaimed "fat-girl" and lives her life more focused on drumming and taking care of her young, single mom than anything else. Maybe that's why she still hasn't told her best friends, one of which is gay himself, that she's bisexual.

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Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown

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Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown

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Jo is very secure in her sexuality. She has been out as a lesbian for years, and until recently her father had no issues with it. That is until he remarries and moves her family to Rome, Georgia, a conservative town where he will work as a evangelist radio host. But, Jo's a senior in high school and will only have to put up with being back in the closet for the rest of the school year, so she agrees. I mean after all, how much can really change in a year?

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A classic Romeo and Juliet inspired novel, the only difference? Mattie won't be playing Juliet. Mattie will be playing Romeo. As Mattie prepares for the eighth grade play she finds herself crushing on not only Gemma, the student playing Juliet, but also a boy named Elijah! Can that even happen?

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White: Essential Questions
Purple: Media appropriate for older students
Blue: Media appropriate for younger students
Red: Works for educators/adults on the topic

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

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After Cameron's parents die suddenly in a car accident, she is forced to move in with her conservative Aunt and Grandmother. Its there that she meets Coley Taylor, who quickly becomes Cameron's love interest. That is until Cameron's Aunt finds out she is seeing a girl and send her off to a conversion camp to "change" her sexuality. Most of the novel follows Cameron after this event, surviving the conversion camp she was forced into.

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Within sapphic relationships presented in media, how does society view relationships between different sub communities differently? (ie. POC sapphic characters vs white sapphic characters, sapphic characters of different religions, sapphic characters of different ages, ect.)

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How are sapphic relationships presented in media differently than heterosexual or gay relationships?