My Own Way: Celebrating Gender Freedom for Kids

About Jay HulmeJoana Estrela

Joana Estrela is an illustrator and author living in Porto Portugal. She studied Communication Design in Portos Fine Art Faculty and still lives and works next door to the school. In 2014 Plana published her first book: a graphic novel called Propaganda. In 2016 Planeta Tangerina published Mana the winner of the 1st Serpa International Award for Picture Books. The book received the award for Best Illustration of a Picturebook (Portuguese Author) at the Amadora BD comics festival the same year.Jay Hulme is an award-winning transgender performance poet speaker writer and educator. Alongside his writing and regular performances he teaches in schools and consults and speaks at events and conferences on the importance of diversity in the media and more specifically transgender inclusion and rights. He writes poetry for children and young adults and the five-poet collection Rising Stars of which he was a part was Highly Commended in the 2018 CLiPPA awards  the UKs biggest award for childrens poetry collections. His collection Clouds Cannot Cover Us was nominated for the 2021 Carnegie Medal.