
Alaina Leary
Program Manager, We Need Diverse Books and Journalist at Freelance
YA Fellow @LambdaLiterary | Trans + disabled author @OwlCrate + Page Street | Program Manager @DiverseBooks | Reviewer @ALA_Booklist. 🌈 Teaches @EmersonCollege
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Mar 28, 2024 |
uuworld.org | Alaina Leary
Editor’s note: Frontline trans organizers and the quoted passenger are not named in order to protect participants’ safety. Last year, 586 new laws negatively targeting trans and gender expansive people were proposed across the United States, and eighty-five of them passed. That makes 2023 the fourth consecutive record-breaking year for anti-trans legislation in the country, according to Trans Legislation Tracker.
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Dec 31, 2023 |
booklistonline.com | Alaina Leary
FEATURE. First published January 1, 2024 (Booklist). When was the first time you saw your experience reflected in a book? For me, it was in 2010, when I was 17 years old and read Parrotfish, by Ellen Wittlinger. This was the first time I came across a trans boy in fiction. It was also the first year I said, “I think I’m transgender” to anyone outside of my own head.
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Oct 26, 2023 |
refinery29.com | Alaina Leary |Elisabeth Kochan
Ich hatte gerade mit der Oberschule angefangen, als eine Mitschülerin zu mir meinte: „Ich weiß nicht, wie du das schaffst. Wenn ich du wäre, würde ich mich umbringen.“ Ich wusste direkt, was sie damit meinte. Ich habe Autismus – eine Diagnose, die ich schon als junges Kind bekam – und eine genetische Bindegewebserkrankung namens Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrom, deren schleierhafte Symptome sich schon lange vor meiner Diagnose mit 25 zeigten. Aufgrund meiner Behinderungen wurde ich zwischen meinem 5. und 14.
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Oct 31, 2022 |
refinery29.com | Alaina Leary
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Oct 31, 2022 |
refinery29.com | Alaina Leary
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