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Michael Young's avatar

Nice one, Brent. Great post, and a great piece of advice. And totally with you on this. I feel like we all need to learn this eventually. It was sort of the theme of the picture book I made. And that too was making something for myself 😱 IT'S ALL CONNECTED.

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Robin Reardon's avatar

Re changing the world, it was your early books and those of David Levithan that inspired me to write in the LGBTQ+ genre, especially when I compared them with books I found depressing, like Dancer from the Dance (Holleran) and A Boy’s Own Story (White). I wanted to write stories about real people whose destinies were not dictated solely by whom they loved, rather than tales ending in tragedy because the characters were not het-cis. I hope my work, like yours, has contributed to a lifting-up of life’s possibilities for my readers.

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