{"id":1948,"date":"2015-06-07T17:25:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T22:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2015-06-07T17:49:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T22:49:30","slug":"gender-neutral-coloring-book-seeks-to-undermine-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1948","title":{"rendered":"Gender-neutral coloring book seeks to undermine stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Illustrator Sophie LaBelle has put together a fun and educational coloring book for children that teaches children it&#8217;s okay to not match the societal stereotype of their gender. Via Gay Star News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>??a d?borde !? (It?s overflowing!) is designed for kids aged four and up, to help them understand that not everyone fits into neatly defined gender binaries.[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sandro\/a is neither a boy nor a girl,? the first page explains, illustrated with a picture of a child on a skateboard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8216;Xe identifies as gender fluid. Some days xe feels like a boy; other days, xe feels like a girl instead. Today, xe feels fantastic!?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n<p>For a community that has long been unafraid to color outside the lines, this book is a welcome addition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman Illustrator Sophie LaBelle has put together a fun and educational coloring book for children that teaches children it&#8217;s okay to not match the societal stereotype of their gender. Via Gay Star News: ??a d?borde !? (It?s overflowing!) is designed for kids aged four and up, to help them understand that not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note","tag-lgbt-character"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}