Summary: My Family, Your Family, Our Family, a new coloring book by Libby Black and Jennifer Lovvorn, features families with parents who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
This piece focuses on the artistic process of two authors who have published a coloring book: My Family, Your Family, Our Family.
The book features unconventional families--families where gay,lesbian, and transgendered adults have established households full of children --some households even have multiple parents.
In learning about the book there are also interviews with those who inspired some of the illustrations. Although short this piece is robust. The pacing is unconventional but effective.
This would be a good segment for "Outright Radio," it would also be an unconventional choice for any show doing a feature on summer reading lists. This is also a good fit for any show that has a theme on Family dynamics, literature and/or Gay and Lesbian issues.
An interesting piece that could be used just about any time that same-sex issues come up in the headlines. It shares the story of a comic book created to share the story of "non-traditional" and "traditional" family structures with children of all backgrounds.
The piece is quick and efficient. Its easy to wish that more time could be spent with the families and comic authors as a way to "illustrate" the story's characters, but brevity wins out here. Making the piece shorter makes it more useful to more stations. It was the right choice.
The production technique leaves a bit to be desired from time to time (including some over modulated micing on the reporter). Given the interest level of the content, it's easy to overlook these small flaws.
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Chelsea Merz
Posted on June 30, 2004 at 09:06 AM | Permalink
Review of My Family, Your Family, Our Family
This piece focuses on the artistic process of two authors who have published a coloring book: My Family, Your Family, Our Family.
The book features unconventional families--families where gay,lesbian, and transgendered adults have established households full of children --some households even have multiple parents.
In learning about the book there are also interviews with those who inspired some of the illustrations. Although short this piece is robust. The pacing is unconventional but effective.
This would be a good segment for "Outright Radio," it would also be an unconventional choice for any show doing a feature on summer reading lists. This is also a good fit for any show that has a theme on Family dynamics, literature and/or Gay and Lesbian issues.
Eric Nuzum
Posted on June 30, 2004 at 02:00 AM | Permalink
Review of My Family, Your Family, Our Family
The piece is quick and efficient. Its easy to wish that more time could be spent with the families and comic authors as a way to "illustrate" the story's characters, but brevity wins out here. Making the piece shorter makes it more useful to more stations. It was the right choice.
The production technique leaves a bit to be desired from time to time (including some over modulated micing on the reporter). Given the interest level of the content, it's easy to overlook these small flaws.