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This Palanca award-winning children’s story plants enlightenment and wonder in readers by acknowledging non-traditional family forms in society. 🌈 RapplerReads
Editor’s note: #RapplerReads is a project of the BrandRap team. We earn a commission every time you shop through the affiliate links below.This is one of the questions Ikaklit’s classmates asked when they found out that she has two mothers instead of a mother and father. Since then, the young girl has been bullied and teased by her classmates at school, calling her names like tomboy andAt first, the young girl didn’t understand why her classmates mocked her family.
In the eyes of the law, a family consists of a husband, wife, and children. The same concept is also taught in schools, where only nuclear and extended families are recognized as “normal” and “acceptable”. Families outside the traditional setup, like those that blossom from LGBTQ+ relationships, are often discriminated against and are put in a bad light.Ikaklit in Our GardenTimes are changing, and literature is one of the tools we use to reflect this change.
Every page of the book also features CJ de Silva’s colorful illustrations of flowers – from roses, daisies, zinnia, and magnolia, to chrysanthemum. There’s also the, the flower from which the young girl was named after. In the latter part of the book, we learn thatPerhaps my favorite part in the story is when Ikaklit stood up against her bullies and didn’t believe the hurtful words they said anymore.
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