“Dear George, with love”: Reading All Boys Aren’t Blue through a lens of critical love amidst rampant book bans

Kent, Chelsea Rae; Kneeland, Jillian M.

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Title

“Dear George, with love”: Reading All Boys Aren’t Blue through a lens of critical love amidst rampant book bans

Author(s)

• Kent, Chelsea Rae
• Kneeland, Jillian M.

Issue Date

2024-08-14

Keyword(s)

• Critical Love
• book bans
• DisruptTexts

Abstract

Amidst increasing book bans centering Queer folk and People of Color, this critical content analysis employs a framework of love to examine how George M. Johnson’s memoir-manifesto All Boys Aren’t Blue counters hegemonic narratives. After defining love across scholarship, the authors identify two tenets of love, self-examination and storytelling, as incremental to how Johnson’s story serves as an entry point for young people to see themselves and others in loving, authentic ways. The authors invite teachers and students to read this text through a lens of love as it exemplifies how stories can be leveraged to honor all lived experiences.

Series/Report Name or Number

Research on Diversity in Youth Literature, volume 6 issue 1

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Articles

Language

eng

Handle URL

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/130607

DOI

10.21900/j.rydl.v6i1.1359

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• Copyright 2024 Chelsea Rae Kent, Jillian M. Kneeland
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0).

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