Join us at the Mill Valley Middle School Library for a special community event with Nico Lang: creator of Queer News Daily, former deputy editor for Out magazine, and author of the new book American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era. In conversation with Mill Valley writer Britta Stromeyer.

Media coverage tends to sensationalize the fight over how trans kids should be allowed to live, but what is incredibly rare are the voices of the people at the heart of this debate: transgender and gender nonconforming kids themselves. For their groundbreaking new book, journalist Nico Lang spent a year traveling the country to document the lives of transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid teens and their families. Drawing on hundreds of hours of on-the-ground interviews with them and the people in their communities.

Nico Lang is a nonbinary award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience covering the transgender community’s fight for equality. Their work has appeared in major publications, including Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, and more. Lang is the creator of Queer News Daily and previously served as the deputy editor for Out magazine, the news editor for Them, the LGBTQ+ correspondent for VICE, and the editor and cofounder of the literary journal In Our Words. Their industry-leading contributions to queer media have resulted in a GLAAD Media Award, 10 awards from the National Association of LGBTQ Journalists (NLGJA), and three awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, including the 2023 Online Journalist of the Year. Lang is also the first-ever recipient of the Visibility Award from the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), an honor created to recognize their impactful contributions to reporting on the lives of LGBTQ+ people.

Britta Stromeyer is the author of award-winning children’s books. Her latest book Look At Me. Who Do You See? was praised by author Maia Kobabe (Gender Queer) as a “A sweet, sparkly story about letting your true self shine.” Britta is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, SF Writer’s Grotto, & PEN. Her writing has appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, Bending Genres Journal, and the Marin Independent Journal.

This event is in partnership with The Mill Valley School District, It Takes a Village, Mill Valley Special Education PTA, and the Mill Valley Public Library. Doors open at 6:00pm.

The bookseller for this event is The Depot Bookstore.