Who Are You?: The Kid’s Guide to Gender Identity by Brook Pessin-Whedbee This brightly illustrated children’s book provides a straightforward introduction to gender for anyone aged four and up. It presents clear and direct language for understanding and talking about how we experience gender: our bodies, our expression, and our identity. Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens by Kathy Belge Teen life is hard enough, but for teens who are LGBTQ, it can be even harder. When do you decide to come out? Will your friends accept you? And how do you meet people to date? Queer is a humorous, engaging, and honest guide that helps LGBTQ teens come out to friends and family, navigate their social life, figure out if a crush is also queer, and challenge bigotry and homophobia. Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle by Robin Stevenson Pride: The Celebration and the Struggle celebrates the LGBTQ+ community's diversity and the incredible victories of the past 50 years―but it also has a larger focus on activism, the need to keep fighting for equality and freedom around the world and the important role that young people are playing. This is Your Brain on Stereotypes: How Science is Tacking Unconscious Bias by Tanya Lloyd Kyi An essential overview of the science behind stereotypes: from why our brains form them to how recognizing them can help us be less biased. From the time we're babies, our brains constantly sort and label the world around us—a skill that's crucial for our survival. But, as adolescents are all too aware, there's a tremendous downside: when we do this to groups of people it can cause great harm. Here's a comprehensive introduction to the science behind stereotypes that will help young people make sense of why we classify people, and how we can change our thinking. It covers the history of identifying stereotypes, secret biases in our brains, and how stereotypes affect our sense of self. Most importantly, it covers current research into how science can help us overcome our biases, offering hope for a future where stereotypes are less prevalent and the world is more fair for everyone. A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. Tristan, a cisgender dude, is looking for an easy way to introduce gender neutral pronouns to his increasingly diverse workplace. The longtime best friends team up in this short and fun comic guide that explains what pronouns are, why they matter, and how to use them. They also include what to do if you make a mistake, and some tips-and-tricks for those who identify outside of the binary to keep themselves safe in this binary-centric world. A quick and easy resource for people who use they/them pronouns, and people who want to learn more! Full-Metal Indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead This poetry collection focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity. A Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer invention, Zoa infects, invades, and infests as a virus inside canonical and popular works in order to re-centre the lives of Two-Spirit individuals. In their fierce defence, Zoa takes on the likes of Shakespeare, Spenser, Dickens, and Milton, romps through the fields of cyberpunks and biopunks, takes notes from popularized horror icons, and emulates contemporary pop-culture phenomenons like Lana del Rey, RuPaul's Drag Race, X-Men, Grindr, and Peter Pan—all to build new territories in literature, pop culture, and oral storytelling. Full-Metal Indigiqueer works tirelessly to create coalition among Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer folk who have been ghosted in policy, page, tradition, and history—the very lives of Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer youth are rarely mentioned; they find themselves made spectral in settler and neocolonial Indigenous nationalisms. For those who have, as Donna Haraway once noted, 'been injured, profoundly', Full-Metal Indigiqueer is a sex-positive project that sparks resurgence.

SOGI Engagement Kit These books and other resources have been gifted to all secondary schools in SD22. They are to be used freely by all staff and students, instead of being barcoded for the school library learning commons. Each school’s SOGI Lead can help people access this kit. Each year, the SOGI District Advisory Group will add new books and materials to the existing kits. Several books regarding gender identity, same-sex families, LGBTQ+ inclusivity, and self-identity. Contains: Who Are you? The kid's guide to gender identity by Brook Pessin-Whedbee This is Your Brain on Stereotypes by Tanya Lloyd Kyi and Drew Shannon Pride by Robin Stevenson Full-Metal Indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead Queer 2nd Edition by Kathy Belge and Marke Bieschke A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni & Tristan Jimerson