What You Don’t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood Paperback – January 26, 2021 by Anastasia Higginbotham

I think the days of Heather Has Two Mommies are long past. We’re ready for GLBTQIA+ stories for kids that are a little bit complicated and a little bit interesting and a whole lotta fantastic. For all this, the person you turn to is Anastasia Higginbotham. —BETSY BIRD, Collection Development Manager of the Evanston Public Library

Anastasia Higginbotham’s What You Don’t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood delves into queerness, Blackness, and the love that dismantles whiteness.

It’s a book about knowing deeply that you matter–always did, always will. It’s a book about what schools get wrong and churches don’t say; but institutions are made by people and the people are evolving. It’s a book about being known and cherished by family, and living in communion with your own personal Jesus, Buddha, Spirit, Source, Father, Mother, God, breath, inner space, outer space, nothingness, and however else we name and relate to our divinity and humility in the presence of all we don’t know.