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Lindz wrote two books! You can purchase your very own copy of their book for grown ups AND you can pre-order their first picture book about gender euphoria & pronouns wherever books are sold!

Out February 27, 2024!

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Out February 27, 2024! 〰️

About Hooray for She, He, Ze, and They! What Are YOUR Pronouns Today?

In this joyous picture book exploration of gender euphoria, celebrated Queer Kid Stuff and The Rainbow Parenting podcast host Lindz Amer teaches kids about all the ways pronouns can be joyful, defining, and empowering.

Everyone has a pronoun. There are hes. There are shes. There are theys. There are zes and hirs and faes and pers and more! What’s yours?

Finding the right pronoun for you feels like a warm hug and helps you be your most wonderful self. This gentle and whimsical guide to pronoun language encourages self-discovery and celebrates the gender euphoria of feeling like you!

About Rainbow Parenting: Your Guide to Raising Queer Kids and Their ALlies

An essential guide for parents and caregivers to raising queer-friendly children in a gender-affirming space.

In the face of so many injustices across society for LGBTQ+ people, it can be easy for parents of young children to feel helpless and hopeless. While they may not be able to address every problem across the country, there's a simple place to start: right at home.

Rainbow Parenting is an indispensable stepping stone for adults who want to raise and teach kids in a queer and gender-affirming way, but might not know how. Lindz Amer, the creator of Queer Kid Stuff, an award-winning LGBTQ+ educational webseries for children and families, is an expert guide, leading readers through practical applications, important LGBTQ+ history, key lessons in intersectionality, pronouns, social justice, and more. Divided by sections that address kids' individual ages—from infancy to kindergarten—this joyful and approachable book shares a bit of hope and starts with the understanding that anyone can spread queer joy.

By giving parents and their kids a vocabulary to express themselves, Rainbow Parenting ultimately aims to create more empathetic adults—and spreads a message of radical acceptance in a world where it's sometimes dangerous to just be yourself.

Reviews for Rainbow Parenting: Your Guide to Raising Queer Kids and Their Allies

  • "An incredibly thoughtful and comprehensive guide focused on awareness and action. Throughout the book, Lindz balances what we need to know and what we can do as caregivers."

    Britt Hawthorne, NYT Bestselling Author of Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide

  • "Insightful . . . . Filled with practical guidance and thoughtful commentary, this is a valuable resource for raising children beyond the gender binary."

    Publisher’s Weekly

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  • "Whether the kids you are raising (or helping to raise) are queer, questioning, or straight/cisgender, and whether you know nothing about LGBTQ identities or are proudly queer yourself, this book will assist you in creating an environment where they and their peers can grow up affirmed and supported. Highly recommended."

    Mombian

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  • "Immensely important."

    Bay Area Reporter

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  • “Rainbow Parenting is infused with love on every page. No matter where folks are at on understanding the queerness spectrum and LGBTQ+ worlds, this profoundly accessible guidebook will meet all with kindness, humour, and care. Lindz Amer’s nuanced understanding (both lived and researched) about the worlds of (queer) children will open up many joy-filled pathways for adults to concretely support and affirm the kiddos in their life more, engendering safety, justice, and thriving for everyone!”

    carla joy bergman, editor of Trust Kids and co-author of Joyful Militancy

  • "A revolutionary read for any parent—heck, any person. Whether you’re a queer parent, have a queer child, or know a queer child, this book should be a mandatory resource. Lindz breaks down the best and most helpful ways to deliver important LGBTQ+ themes and terms to kids of all ages into digestible chunks. They also do the important work of demystifying the stigmas and misinformation around talking to young kids about queerness. Read this book and help spread queer joy!"

    Stacey Chomiak, author and Illustrator of Still Stace

How can I support QKS?

 We are a small queer and trans-owned business and every $1 helps us keep the lights on. If you like what we do and want us to keep doing it, please consider supporting us through monthly donations by becoming a Friend of Teddy’s via Patreon! You’ve get exclusive access to lots of content from us like early ad-free episode of Rainbow Parenting, ALL of our Dear Queer Kid letters, BTS from Lindz, and so much more!