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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Zayde Wizard
Isaac – official palace wizard, Ashkenazi dreamboat, and surrogate father to the queen – singing Yiddish lullabies to her baby, Princess Naomi. Characters from A Harvest of Ripe Figs drawn by misselaney. Here’s my actual grandfather singing in Yiddish. I’m posting … Continue reading
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Tagged ashkenazi, babies, baby, grandfather, grandpa, isaac, jew, jewish, jews, yiddish, zayde
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The adventures of Princess Naomi and her Zayde Dragon
Princess Naomi is very lucky. She has two moms who love her very much, one of whom is queen of the whole kingdom! She’s also got a dragon who looks after her. Princess Naomi, her mothers, and the dragon are … Continue reading
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Tagged cartoon, childhood, children, comics, Dragon, dragons, fairy tale, family, fantasy, grandfather, grandpa, grandparents, jewish, lesbian moms, lgbt, lgbt fairy tales, lgbt families, princess, two moms, yiddish
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Tzuriel ben Kofi, dealer of musical wares (and friendly teddy bear)
Tzuriel, the traveling musical instrument salesman from A Harvest of Ripe Figs. His shop is full of goodies from all over the world, including some he built himself. He can play everything in the shop, at least rudimentarily, but his … Continue reading
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Tagged bhm, big guys, biracial, black, black characters, books, dreadlocks, fat characters, fat positive, music, musicians, tzuriel ben kofi
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Royalties from A Harvest of Ripe Figs to be donated to trans charities until July
In honor of Micah and all the real kids like him, ALL royalties for this novel until March JUNE 30 will be donated to Casa Ruby and Trans Life Line, so signal boosting is appreciated. Micah, the AFAB trans street kid, jamming … Continue reading
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Tagged afab, books, Casa Ruby, dfab, fiction, fiddle, ftm, glbt, jamming, jewish, lgbt, micah, music, musicians, shabbat, trans, trans charities, trans kids, Trans Life Line, trans youth, transgender, violin, ya books, young adult, young adult fiction
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Climbing the Date Palm advances to the finals!
Very proud that Climbing the Date Palm has made it to the finals of this year’s Bisexual Book Awards for both romance and fantasy! It’s a fairy tale about labor rights; it’s a story about family-of-choice and food and justice. Oh, … Continue reading
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Tagged awards, bi, bisexual, Bisexuality, books, fiction, glbt, lgbt, m/m, m/m romance
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Passover art of the Mangoverse’s main lady couple
Hope those of you who celebrate Pesach had a good seder! Aviva and Shulamit found the gluten-free afikomen and escaped with it, in this fun pic by Becca Schauer… Characters are from these books.
Shira Glassman 