They Call Me Mix/Me Llaman Maestre Soccer A New York Public Library

A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023

colorful illustrations

superhuman tenacity

Or stopped for an errand somewhere

whose character has been forged in the crucible of the Somme

They Call Me Mix/Me Llaman Maestre Soccer A New York Public LibraryThey Call Me Mix is a bilingual (English and Spanish) Children's book geared towards Kinder 2nd grade age students about what it means to be a transgender person of color. The story starts with Lourdes recalling childhood and noticing how gendered everything about existence is since before we're even born. Lourdes points out how people create categories to make life easier but when it comes to people, gender categories can make life so difficult