"This important and powerful book provides us with poignant stories, current research, and lived understandings to inform how we can act to make this a safer world for all youth." Katherine Schultz, Mills College "This book is a must read for those who work with youth, especially in schools. Blackburn vividly illustrates the toll homophobia takes on our children, both gay and straight. Moving beyond the 'protect and punish' model, Blackburn provides practitioners with concrete suggestions for making our schools more equitable and welcoming places where all learners can thrive." CJ Pascoe, Department of Sociology, Colorado College, Colorado Springs "Blackburn takes a stand as she demonstrates how her act of interrupting hate is facilitated by the promise, purpose, and power of literacy. Let us learn from these stories as we work to understand ways of mobilizing for positive, necessary, and urgent change for ourselves and with others in a world that has yet to embrace the promise of social justice, diversity, difference, and equity." Valerie Kinloch, Associate Professor, Literacy Studies, The Ohio State University.