Your a Fat Suckr Bich...
This substack is now a book! Yay!
Is a Substack becoming a book considered content devolution or evolution? Is it like putting out a CD mixtape instead of offering a SoundCloud download? I can’t keep track of every media trend anymore.
Regardless, in the honored lineage of such weird but great teacher memoirs such as My Posse Don’t Do Homework by LouAnne Johnson (which became the Michelle Pfeiffer movie Dangerous Minds) and the cholos-do-calculus classic Stand and Deliver, now comes the ILLUSTRATED VERSION of The Alphabet People published by FlowerSong Press.
You’re a Fat Suckr Bich: Notes on the Merry but Perilous Work of Schoolteaching in Los Angeles is available now!
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With gorgeous and vibrant illustrations by the talented artist Hector Garza, my latest book relates the highs and lows of being an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles in America in this crazy new century.
Your a Fat Suckr Bich is both a love letter to teaching and a challenge to the sanitized mythology of the bonneted schoolmistress of the one-room schoolhouse. It’s a book for educators, parents, policymakers, and anyone ready to see what really happens when you put a writer in a room and ask him to hand over the power of language to five-year-olds.
America has no idea what teachers do. This book is here to change that.
I ordered it and can't wait to read!!