“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
— Maya Angelou
"[A] thoughtful portrait of one teenager’s incremental progress toward greater self-knowledge and acceptance."
Trina Sotira: Writer, Editor, Assistant Professor
"'There is no room in our schools for discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against transgender students on the basis of their sex,' Attorney General Loretta Lynch said" (qtd. in Grinberg).
"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values,
we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities,
and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric,
one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place."
-Margaret Mead
Trina Sotira's In Her Skin: Growing Up Trans is an ALA Rainbow Book List Nominee and Lambda Literary "Lammy" Nominee. With Michelle Duster, Sotira edited and contributed to Shifts: An Anthology of Women's Growth Through Change, a USA Best Book Award Finalist and Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Women's Issues.