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Jerlyn M. Thomas is a design director and product designer based in New York City. She creates digital experiences, concentrating on inclusivity and design accessibility. Her passion bridges the gap between technology and art to communicate with diverse audiences. She’s also a published author and digital illustrator who posts art she draws during her commutes on her Instagram (@commuteartist) when she’s not training for her next ultramarathon or triathlon.
Kara Thomas is the author of the YA mysteries The Darkest Corners, Little Monsters, and The Cheerleaders, all published by Delacorte Press. You can find her reading Reddit’s Unresolved Mysteries thread in the middle of the night.
Libby VanderPloeg is a Michigan-based artist, illustrator, and designer. Her client list includes Anthropologie, the New York Times, TED Talks, Penguin Books, the New Yorker, and Instagram, among others. She’s had a lot of fun over the years seeing several of her animated GIFs go viral, including her “Lift Each Other Up” piece. When she’s not drawing, she loves to bake, go for bike rides, run, and dig around in the garden.
Alice Wong is a disabled activist, podcaster, and consultant based in San Francisco. She is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project, an online community dedicated to creating, sharing, and amplifying disability media and culture. Alice is also the editor of Disability Visibility, an anthology of essays by disabled people, coming out summer 2020 from Vintage Books. You can find her on Twitter: @SFdirewolf.
Yao Xiao was born in China and emigrated to the United States at age sixteen. She first studied fine art in Seattle and later at the Memphis College of Art, before moving to New York and enrolling in a BFA program at the School of Visual Arts. After graduation in 2013 with a degree in illustration, Yao sought a way to document her experiences as a queer immigrant and developed a series of comics incorporating illustration and writing. She continued to build on this practice and today is a successful illustrator, cartoonist, and writer. Yao’s work has been featured in BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, National Geographic, Time, and Vice, among others. Yao has shown her work at galleries in New York, San Francisco, and Seattle. Her first graphic novel is Everything Is Beautiful, and I’m Not Afraid from Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Acknowledgments
Every book is a different experience, and every book project has a different community that helps make it happen.
My community is the best.
Thank you to agent of wonder Tina Dubois, as well as Tamara Kawar. I’m forever grateful for my editor, Krestyna Lypen, and publisher, Elise Howard, along with the entire hardworking team at Algonquin Young Readers. You are all my dream team.
Thanks also to Katherine Sullivan for this seed of an idea years ago and enthusiasm for getting curious about everything. Alyssa Wees for accountability and writing dates that have become a highlight of my week. Eric Smith for off-the-record celebrations, humor, and encouragement. Bryce Kozla for your keen eye and insights about accessibility, both for this book and the greater world at large. As always, Liz Burns for being someone who always and forever understands me.
Woodstock, Illinois, is still new to me, but thanks to people like Rachel Bellavia, Lindsey DiCello, Arlene Lynes at Read Between the Lynes, Martha Hansen at Woodstock Public Library, and my teachers and peers at the Yoga Lounge, this has become such an incredible place to live, to write, and to thrive.
My mom and my grandma get thanked in every book for paying off the library fines I racked up as a teen. It’s all on me now, and I know how bad I am about returning books on time.
Erik, you are my best friend and the love of my life. I’m glad we’re doing this thing together and that we’re one degree closer to being friends with Tyra Banks.
Last but not least, thank you to every single reader who has picked up one of my books or shared it with someone in their life. You are why I do this, and you are why I’ll forever be grateful I get to do this.
Jennifer Brister
Kelly Jensen
is a former librarian and current editor at Book Riot and her own popular book blog, Stacked. She’s the editor of two highly acclaimed YA anthologies, Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World and (Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health. Her writing has been featured in BUST magazine, Fortune, Bustle, and more. When not working with words, she teaches yoga, hangs out with a motley crew of pets, and enjoys all the black licorice no one else wants.
Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen and her website kellybjensen.com.
Also edited by Kelly Jensen
(Don’t) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World
Keep the Conversation Going!
HERE WE ARE:
44 Voices Write, Draw, and Speak about Feminism for the Real World
Writers, dancers, actors, and artists contribute essays, lists, poems, comics, and illustrations about everything from body positivity to romance to gender identity to intersectionality to the greatest girl friendships in fiction. Together, they share diverse perspectives on and insights into what feminism means and what it looks like.
“Here We Are boldly and proudly passes the torch to the next generation of leaders.” —Teen Vogue
(DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY:
33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
To understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there’s no single definition of crazy, there’s no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things—wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate?—to different people. If you’ve ever struggled with your mental health, or know someone who has, come on in, turn the pages . . . and let’s get talking.
“Jensen has brought together sharp and vivid perspectives. This book asks questions and provides real-life experiences and hope for the future.”—The Washington Post, Best Children’s Books of 2018
Copyrights
“Scoliosis, Spinal Fusion, and Stomach Punches” copyright © 2020 by Rachael Lippincott
“The Body That Betrayed Me” copyright © 2020 by Eugene Grant
“Do You Know About . . . ?” copyright © 2020 by Eugene Grant
“What are the best terms to use for disabled people?” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Jensen
“The Politics of Hair” copyright © 2020 by Jerlyn M. Thomas
“And It’s Fine” copyright © 2020 by Kati Gardner
“What does accessibility mean?” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Jensen
“Five Ass-ential Tyra Tips for Better Body Image,” “Non-Skinny People Who I Think Are Sexy as Hell,” and “Embrace Your Booty” from Perfect Is Boring: 10 Things My Crazy, Fierce Mama Taught Me about Beauty, Booty, and Being a Boss by Tyra Banks and Carolyn London, copyright © 2018 by the Tyra Banks Company Books LLC. Used by permission of TarcherPerigee, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“The Ghosts of Christmas Past, or When the Angel Learned to Shave” copyright © 2020 by Eric Smith
“Sixty-Four Teeth” copyright © 2018 by Sara Saedi
“Flock” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Bastow
“Not by the Hair on My Chinny Chin Chin” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Jensen
“How and why do tattoos stay on our skin?” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Jensen
“Visible Scar Club” copyright © 2020 by D. M. Moehrle
“Marked at Birth” copyright © 2020 by Libby VanderPloeg
“Fifty Swimsuits” copyright © 2020 by Julie Murphy
“My Body, My Feelings” copyright © 2020 by Patricia S. Elzie
“Is it OK to use the word fat?” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Jensen
“Fat Out Loud” copyright © 2020 by Alex Gino
“Thin” copyright © 2020 by Yao Xiao
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br /> “My Body, a Crime” copyright © 2020 by Mars Sebastian
“What’s the difference between body positivity and fat acceptance?” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Jensen
“Loving On Me Is Prayer: Queer Journeys into Black Girl Self-Love” copyright © 2020 by Junauda Petrus-Nasah
“Please Laugh: My Cancer Diagnosis” copyright © 2017 by Benjamin Pu
“Kindred” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Bastow
“Your Complete Guide to Shane’s Sex Life” copyright © 2019 by Shane Burcaw. Reprinted by permission of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings Limited Partnership. All rights reserved.
“The Blood on Their Hands” copyright © 2020 by Anna-Marie McLemore
“What are some normal side effects of menstruation?” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Jensen
“Five Things People Want to Know about Their Junk (and Are Afraid to Ask)” copyright © 2020 by I. W. Gregorio
“Cry Like a Girl” copyright © 2020 by Kate Hart
“What is a pink tax?” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Jensen
“Sisterhood, Blood, and Boobs at the London Marathon 2015” copyright © 2020 by Kiran/Madame Gandhi
“When You’re ‘Broken’ Like Me” copyright © 2020 by amanda lovelace
“Your Asexuality Is Valid Whether or Not You . . .” copyright © 2020 by amanda lovelace
“Beneath the Surface” copyright © 2020 by Abby Sams
“What is self-care?” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Jensen
“Trigger Warning” copyright © 2020 by Nat Razi
“Maybe It’s Maybelline, or Maybe It’s Really Not Your Business” copyright © 2020 by Roshani Chokshi
“How important is sleep?” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Jensen
“What’s the Deal with Hormones?” copyright © 2020 by Alicia Lutes
“Fart from the Madding Crowd” copyright © 2020 by Kara Thomas
“Body Positive” from Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything by Aly Raisman, copyright © 2017. Reprinted by permission of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
“Ode to a Spit Cup” copyright © 2020 by Alice Wong
“How do things like straw bans impact disabled people?” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Jensen
“The White Rabbit” copyright © 2020 by John McGinty
“Roars and Whispers” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Bastow
“Looking ‘Straight’” copyright © 2020 by Jourdain Searles
“How Anyone Can Help Trans People in Their Lives, Written from the Perspective of a Trans Man” copyright © 2020 by Gavin Grimm
“My Back-Brace Year: How I Learned to Stand Tall, Even While Hunched” copyright © 2020 by Kate Bigam Kaput
“Two Tools for Powerful Relaxation” copyright © 2020 by Kelly Jensen
“My Perreo de Shame Playlist” copyright © 2020 by Lilliam Rivera
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