S6 Ep. 45: The Kids Are Not All Right: Celeste Ng on the GOP’s War on Children

Bestselling novelist Celeste Ng joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the wide range of GOP policies and initiatives hurting children. This includes recent news of Ron DeSantis pushing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that authorizes Florida to take emergency custody of trans children “threatened with” receiving gender-affirming care, and justifies the action by classing that care as “physical harm.” They discuss her novel, Our Missing Hearts, which features a young protagonist separated from his Chinese-American mother because of a troublesome fictional law called the Preserving American Culture and Traditions Act. Ng reads from her novel, newly out in paperback.   To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Celeste Ng Our Missing Hearts Little Fires Everywhere Everything I Never Told You Others: State Bill 254 “Judge Sides With Families Fighting Florida’s Ban on Gender Care for Minors,” by Rick Rojas and Azeen Ghorayshi, The New York Times “Florida Passes Bill Allowing Trans Kids to Be Taken From Their Families,” by Tori Otten, The New Republic “Florida Advanced a Bill That Could Separate Trans Kids From Affirming Parents,” by Samantha Riedel, Them “Parents seeking treatments for trans kids could lose custody of child under new Florida bill,” by Sam Sachs, WFLA “Nebraska Mom Helped Her Daughter Get an Abortion. Now Her Daughter Has Been Sentenced to Jail,” by Madison Pauly, Mother Jones “Houston's plan to convert some school libraries into discipline centers is criticized,” by Dominic Anthony Walsh, NPR Fiction/Non/Fiction, Season 5, Episode 13: "Censoring the American Canon: Farah Jasmine Griffin on Book Bans Targeting Black Writers" Fiction/Non/Fiction, Season 1, Episode 10: "Anti-Semitism and the Authoritarian Playbook" Fiction/Non/Fiction, Season 5, Episode 12: "Intimate Contact: Garth Greenwell on Book Bans and Writing About Sex" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices