My Shadow is Pink

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My Shadow is Pink is a labour of fatherly love. When Scott's son Colin was three, he fell in love with Frozen's Queen Elsa. He wanted every available toy and costume; his most prized possession was an Elsa doll, which he took absolutely everywhere and proudly showed anyone and everyone. One day he came home from preschool completely distraught. Someone had told him that Elsa was - a girl's toy and not for boys. That day Scott resolved to always support his son and the things he loves, even if they challenge his - or society's - expectations. The poet has tried to establish a contrast of the shadow with other things around to show the difference in nature of the shadow. For example: Indeed, the author put a video on TikTok in which he explains that his son wanted to dress as Elsa to go to the cinema, and Stuart told him "There is no way you're doing that ... alone." The video then shows a young boy wearing a dress, accompanied by his father also wearing a dress. This video has had over 22 million views at the time of writing. La sombra de mi papá más azul no puede ser, y en mi familia verás color azul por doquier. Pero la mía es distinta, ¡qué cosa tan curiosa! Porque la mía no es azul…¡Mi sombra es rosa! Andrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern, said: “If ever there was a moment in history for those responsible for Church of England schools to wake up and return to biblical teaching it is now. How can anyone think this book is a good idea let alone the church?

This is an important book which explores issues around identify and self-acceptance. It is a text that challenges gender stereotypes and is inclusive in terms of representing the LGBTQ+ community. It can also be read in conjunction with My Shadow is Purple which explores non-binary gender. Links and Themes: I am pleased, in a way, that the school and the diocese go to some lengths to deny that this book is about gender identity. This shows that they know that it is wrong to promote transgender ideology to very young children. Their denials do not stand up to the minimum of scrutiny. What remains now is for them to apologise and promise to ensure that impressionable young children are not taught material promoting transgender ideology. Christian parents, Stephen Evans, and his wife Joanne withdrew their four-year-old child from a lesson for World Book Day where the book My Shadow is Pink, by Scott Stuart was going to be used.We are not alone in believing that the book is confusing and is not appropriate for four-year-olds, especially in a Christian school. Christian and non-Christian parents have raised concern, but the head teacher has ignored it.

We want to know where teaching this book will lead next and where the school draw the line. Parents have not been properly consulted and it looks like we and are our children are being placed on a ‘woke’ conveyor belt. opinions. In the big picture, they count for nothing because we are who we are. No one should have toThe theme of the poem is to show the curiosity and excitement of a child seeing his shadow. He observes his shadow and is in the puzzle that it is much different from the other children that he has come across since he thinks that his shadow is just like any other human being. He is puzzled by the growth of the shadow and how it grows big and small on the same day. He says that the shadow is just like him in appearance from top to bottom and never leaves his side. For the child, the shadow becomes like a pal who follows him, looks like him, and does whatever he does. But it is different from all the other friends he has. The child goes to all extents to experiment and understand how the shadow works to know him better. My Shadow: Tone dismiss his conflicting feelings. Then one day an invitation to let his shadow dress up in its favourite thing changes This is an extraordinary claim given that the boy is encouraged to identify with his 'shadow' and wear a dress to school as if he is a girl. The book, which says it is appropriate for three-year-olds, begins to plant the idea that children can be born in the wrong body, which goes against government guidance for schools. It is recommended by extreme LGBT group, Educate & Celebrate, who undertake training in schools with the aim of ‘smashing heteronormativity’. This means smashing the traditional view of sex and gender and getting rid of the belief that there are men and women, and that men and women belong together. In the first stanza itself, the poet has established that he thinks of the shadow as a person and is comparing it with everything humanly that happens around him. Hence, he is puzzled by seeing that his shadow is nothing like the other children that he has come across.