children – April Fox

April 6, 2016

Quit Complicating Your Kids’ Questions About Gender and Sexuality

Every time legislation is passed that has anything to do with civil rights, things like being allowed to marry or use the bathroom in peace or whatever, people start using children as proxies for their fear and lack of understanding. It spreads like a rash across social media, this epidemic of made-up conversations kids are…

asheville writers, children, editorial, family, gay marriage, gay rights, human rights, marriage equality, politics, relationships, religion, social issues, Uncategorized

april fox, asheville nc, children, gay rights, hb2, north carolina politics, parenting, transgender
January 28, 2016

Skinny Bitch Barbie Meets Her Curvy Match

Move over, skinny bitch. There’s a new Barbie in town. Before I go any further, let me say that I think it’s great that there are new dolls for little kids to play with, featuring different body types and skin tones. When my younger daughter was small, she tended to gravitate toward the “Hispanic” dolls,…

children, Uncategorized

april fox, Barbie
December 19, 2015

Kids are Weird, Man.

Edit: Now with a real, live, working link to the new blog! Sorry about that. Some of you might know that when I’m not writing, I’m teaching. This year, I’m working with a brilliant, hilarious, adorable kid I call Little G, and I’ve created a new blog to chronicle some of our adventures. We do…

asheville nc, asheville writers, autism, children, education, family, homeschooling, humor, parenting, special needs kids

april fox, asheville nc, autism, education
November 19, 2015

Refuge.

They are laughing in the sand, their high-pitched voices crossing over and under each other and up into the sky into the clouds dirty hands reaching for each other, circling around singing songs whose words we cannot recognize but the tune is universal; nursery rhymes are all the same. They are smaller than the dogs…

asheville nc, asheville poetry, asheville writers, children, nc poetry, poetry, politics, religion, social issues, Uncategorized

april fox, asheville nc, asheville poetry, nc poetry, poetry, refugee, syria
September 28, 2015

Asheville’s Helpmate Hosts a Vigil to Help End Domestic Violence

A portion of the royalties from my latest book, Spine, will be used to benefit Helpmate, a local non-profit organization that helps women and their children who are in, escaping, and recovering from domestic violence situations. There’s a popular myth that women stay because they love their abusers and think they’ll change. That is certainly…

asheville nc, children, education, family, human rights, local, mental health, news, parenting, politics, social issues

april fox, asheville events, asheville nc, buncombe county, enough, helpmate, Spine, spousal abuse, vigil, women’s shelter
September 4, 2015

Untitled, September 4 2015

This has been a trying week, with a lot of scary things happening close to home and around the world. I’ve been simultaneously trying to wrap my head around it all and to pretend that I don’t see the ugliness, and I keep coming back to this one thing that I simply cannot understand. With…

asheville nc, asheville poetry, children

april fox, asheville nc, children, hate, love, photograph, poetry, teaching

Category: children

Quit Complicating Your Kids’ Questions About Gender and Sexuality

Skinny Bitch Barbie Meets Her Curvy Match

Kids are Weird, Man.

Refuge.

Asheville’s Helpmate Hosts a Vigil to Help End Domestic Violence

Untitled, September 4 2015