Last month, I woke up to texts that made me choke on my coffee: “Girl, you’re all over Congress!” In a surreal twist, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had held up a photo of me in full drag during a subcommittee hearing on public broadcasting and accused me — on official record — of being a “monster” and a “child predator.”

The photo behind Greene was one of my own: a joyful headshot in red, white, and blue sequins — ironic given the venom in her speech. As someone who’s been reading books to kids, writing stories celebrating self-expression, and proudly performing in drag, it wasn’t the first time I’d been attacked. But it was the first time I was the centerpiece of a congressional hearing.

Greene used my appearance on Let’s Learn, a local PBS affiliate educational program, as supposed proof that public broadcasting is “grooming” children — a recycled smear with roots in the anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric of the 1970s. She claimed, “If I saw this monster targeting my children, I would become unglued.” The only thing unglued, frankly, was her grasp on facts and basic decency.

For the record:
✔️ The show she referenced wasn’t produced by PBS itself.
✔️ I read a playful, empowering picture book — The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.
✔️ There was no grooming, no sexual content, and certainly no “brainwashing.” Just joy, glitter, and acceptance.

Greene’s comments, though absurd, are part of a larger, dangerous strategy: vilify queer joy and erode public support for diversity in education and media. She’s not just targeting drag queens. She’s targeting the very idea that children should see a world full of different identities, bodies, and ways of being.

What makes this especially galling is that Greene claims to defend “freedom” while trying to ban books, defund NPR and PBS, and shame marginalized people out of public life. But what she doesn’t realize is this: drag queens don’t scare easily.

Drag, by its nature, is resistance. It’s flamboyant, creative rebellion. It’s a celebration of all the things that authoritarians hate: joy, color, queerness, difference. That’s why they attack us. Because drag — like diverse books and public libraries — challenges their narrow vision of who belongs.

But here’s the truth:
🟣 We belong.
🟠 Kids love us.
🔵 We’re not going anywhere.

While Greene is busy weaponizing congressional hearings to stir outrage, I’ll keep writing books like Make Your Own Rainbow, a guide for kids to color outside the lines — literally and figuratively. I’ll keep showing up in libraries, bookstores, schools, and story hours because kids deserve to grow up in a world where imagination, empathy, and identity are celebrated — not suppressed.

And to anyone watching this unfold in horror, wondering what to do: don’t just get mad — get fabulous. Speak up for your libraries. Defend your teachers. Vote for public officials who support inclusion and education, not censorship and hate.

Because the real monsters aren’t wearing sequins — they’re holding gavels.