The Librarian's QUILTBAG

Current resources that help educators promote sexuality and gender acceptance (SAGA) and develop more inclusive curriculum, policies, and spaces within schools have a wealth of information aimed at traditional classroom teachers and administrators.

But what about librarians?

Current literature seems only to focus on how to promote libraries as safe spaces and providing ideas for displays that librarians can create to celebrate the awareness days, weeks, and months. While these are excellent ways for librarians to support queer students and youth, they ignore the potential that libraries have to be engines of change within their communities.

Libraries are spaces where new tools and ideas can be implemented and tested, and they are one of the few places within a community that are freely accessible to every member. Therefore, with planning, preparation, and advocacy, librarians can pioneer social change in their schools.

This website seeks to provide school librarians with the tools and information they need in order to help effect this change through library-focused programming and curriculum that promotes SAGA for all students in the QUILTBAG, be they pansexual, nonbinary, (Q) queer or questioning, (U) unsure or undecided, (I) intersex, (L) lesbian, (T) trans, (B) bisexual, (A) asexual or aromantic, or (G) gay or gender-expansive.

Though this website was developed with school libraries in mind, public librarians may also find that the activities and resources provided can impact their spaces and communities. This website's purpose is to empower librarians as advocates and allies as they support queer youth through lessons, programs, and collaboration with other members of the learning and physical communities.