Raising Ollie: How My Nonbinary Art-Nerd Kid Changed (Nearly) Everything I Know

Ollie, who used to hate weekends because they meant no school, was crying on the way to school almost every day. Sure, there were the slings and arrows of bullies and bad teachers, but, maybe worse, Ollie, a funny, anxious, smart kid, was gravely underchallenged and also struggling with identity and how to live totally as themselves. Ollie begged to switch to a new school with "kids like me," and so they made the change.



Raising Ollie is dad Tom Rademacher's story (really, many stories) of t...