Author Spotlight — LGBTQ

CHOOSING APPROPRIATE LGBTQ+ RESOURCES FOR THE WORLD LANGUAGE CLASSROOM Kodi Rain, co-author of Los viernes de películas  Queer characters and themes are often stereotypes. If you’re not sure how to choose queer resources or are unsure whether something is positive representation or might be problematic, that’s OK. Anti-bias education training teaches that we all have biases and it’s important to learn what they are so that we can stop perpetuating them. The following questions are meant to help you make thoughtful choices.   What does LGBTQ+ inclusion and normalization look like? Often when there is a queer character there is...

Author Spotlight, Jennifer Degenhardt   Jennifer Degenhardt’s readers in Spanish and French are here on www.CommandPerformanceBooks.com Jennifer degenhardt's Los Tres Amigos was the first author and first book we added as a distributor (followed by Adriana Ramirez and Margarita Pérez García.)  Los Tres Amigos was the first reader with an overtly gay character and it opened the gateway.  Other authors began to write about important content rather than just writing for language acquisition. Jennifer also wrote the first books on immigration, Dreamers and differently-abled characters.  Here she rather humbly explains how challenging the status quo was no big deal.  - Karen Rowan  ...