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Remembering Indigo: Are we honoring our promises?

But where are the Indigenous Q2S? There ought to be Indigenous Q2S Well, maybe next year Those are revised lines from a song my cousin Maddie sang for a concert. "The writer was gay," she told me. "IS gay," I said. "And, so what?" She sneered, which is not unusual. The vow we made when Indie died was to fight queerphobia is every form, and to promote Q2S voices. In this, we have failed. Looking at AICL's great "Best of 2018" list, I am struck by the cishet-ness of it all. Except for Joshua Whitehead's JONNY APPLESEED. No shade on AICL. That's what was published. And I am especially struck by the cishet-ness of this blog and our @ofglades Twitter. Though Twitter has been the best teacher. We are ALWAYS learning from Daniel Heath Justice and Laura Jimenez. We are learning from Alex Gino and Kyle Lukoff. We are learning from Kheryn Callender. It is actually Kheryn's YA novel THIS IS KIND OF AN EPIC LOVE ST...