Newsletter

Fall 2024

Announcements

• Book Launch: 2024 - 2025 Round Up: As the school year kicks off, we’re thrilled to bring you some exciting news: Pride and Less Prejudice has new Book Bundles! We are offering 16 titles to PreK - 3rd Grade classrooms for the 2024 - 2025 school year that reflect a wide range of LGBTQ+ identities and lived experiences, available for free by request through our online form. This year, we are thrilled to bring you a book list that includes a mix of new titles and a few familiar ones. As always, each selection is accompanied by a Teaching Guide to help you incorporate the books into your curriculum and a recorded read-aloud by many of the books’ creators in the months to come.

• Banned Together Auction - Coming Soon! We invite you to bid on a variety of items, including theater and concert tickets, book subscriptions and gift cards, self-care boxes, pride themed items, and donations from prominent celebrities! Bidding will open on Thursday, September 26 @ 10:00 AM ET and will close on Sunday, September 29 @ 10:00 PM ET.
  Our fourth annual Banned Together Virtual Auction takes place during the American Library Association’s Annual Banned Books Week, which celebrates the freedom to read!

• Rob Sanders: You Don't Have to be a Writer to Get Kids to Write: Helping students take their learning deeper can happen when they put pencil to paper (or fingers to keyboards). Rob Sanders will use his book QUEER & FEARLESS: POEMS CELEBRATING THE LIVES OF LGBTQ+ HEROES (and other fabulous books) to show you how mentor texts can model for students how to put their learning into words. Register for this workshop here.

• Join our team! Calling all educators! We’re looking for passionate teachers and librarians to help us champion inclusive literacy. If you believe in the transformative power of diverse books, we’d love for you to join our mission. Send an email to info@prideandlessprejudice.org to learn more.

Updates

• New Interactive Read Aloud Guides: Check out the Interactive Read Aloud Guides for some of this year's featured books here!

• Meet the Authors: Read new Meet the Author interviews with this year's featured authors here!

• Meet our Fall Interns!

  • Nathan Campozano (he/they) is a recent graduate from Purchase College, where he earned a B.A. in Political Science and Gender Studies. After gathering experience working as an outreach coordinator with local and on-campus organizations, Nathan became interested in understanding community as a resource and tool of resistance. Academically, Nathan explored queer theory and the intricacies of marginalized LGBTQ+ communities. Having focused much of their college career on advocacy and research, Nathan developed a passion for finding new ways to create access to resources that assist queer youth. 

    When not engaged in these activities, they enjoy journaling, crafting, and reading. Nathan grew up reading many engaging book series such as Junie B. Jones and the Magic Tree House series. Today, he is invested in seeing stories from different backgrounds being told.

  • Katie (she/her) is a senior at Marist College majoring in political science and minoring in women’s, gender, & sexuality studies and music. Coming from a family of educators, Katie has always been passionate about having meaningful and inclusive resources in schools. She is dedicated to LGBTQ+ advocacy and plans to pursue a nonprofit policy career in the future. 
    At college, Katie is heavily involved in Marist’s music program and spends most of her free time singing with friends or listening to her favorite music artists. Katie also loves to read, and her all-time favorite book is the Nightingale by Kristin Hannah.