Career
She is Jewish, a feminist and lesbian. She has written and edited 70 books and anthologies. She has written about such topics as being a Jew, body image and eating disorders, lesbianism, lesbian and gay parenting, and her gender role as a femme.
Her best-known work is the controversial Heather Has Two Mommies.
She was later the subject of another similar controversy in 1997, when her book Belinda"s Bouquet was banned by School District 36 Surrey in Surrey, British Columbia, alongside Johnny Valentine"s One Dad, Two Dads, Brown Dad, Blue Dads and Rosamund Elwin and Michele Paulse"s Asha"s Mums. That ban was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court of Canada in its 2002 decision Chamberlain v Surrey School District Number 36.
She also authored The Boy Who Cried Fabulous in 2004. Her set of children"s picture books Mommy, Mama, and Maine and Daddy, Papa and Maine were 2010 Stonewall Honor Books as well as her 2013 October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepherd.
