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October 12, 2025

September 2025 Monthly Digest

A monthly digest of content from Love in the Face.
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Published on October 12, 2025 04:45

August 24, 2025

I Hardly Knew Me Book Giveaway and Live Podcast!

My new memoir, I Hardly Knew Me is now available!! If you don't have a copy yet, now you can head over to Goodreads and enter to win!!!
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Published on August 24, 2025 11:02

June 7, 2025

Join Our Book Launch Team!

My new memoir, I Hardly Knew Me is now available for pre-order! If you haven't already, you can get a copy on Bookshop.org or Amazon. Also if you haven't, please join my book launch team! You can sign up by filling out this form!
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Published on June 07, 2025 16:20

April 16, 2025

I Hardly Knew Me

I'm super excited about my upcoming memoir, I Hardly Knew Me. It will be available for pre-order very soon, and in the mean time, check out the interview I did with my publisher, Lake Drive books to get a feel for what's in the book and why I wrote it.
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Published on April 16, 2025 13:06

August 3, 2024

All the Rage: The Purpose of Evangelical Christian Anger

It’s an even year, and we all know what that means! It’s time for the best athletes from around the world to come together…and offend Christians everywhere! In case you haven’t heard, let me set the scene.

A picture of the Eiffel tower from below looking up. The tower has the Olympic Ring Logo.

The Paris Summer Olympics which kicked off Friday, July 26th, opened in lavish fashion with the regular entertaining artistry that only comes every 2 years, but this time, French style. 


Thomas Jolly, the artistic director for the opening ceremony put together a decadent show, with allusions...

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Published on August 03, 2024 21:00

June 10, 2024

A Matter of Faith Podcast

Check us out this week on A Matter of Faith Podcast!

For more information on the podcast and to hear all episodes, go to https://www.amatteroffaithpodcast.com/



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Published on June 10, 2024 18:46

June 3, 2024

We're Going Out on the Road!

We're taking Embracing Queer Family out on the road! Come join us!

A blue station wagon with giant books and colorful baloons stacked on top. It is driving down the road in the southwest.

Come join us at one of our upcoming events!

Click the events below to see the weblink and get more information. We hope to see you there!

Red Emma's, Baltimore, MD, June 6th, 7:00pm

https://redemmas.org/events/nia-and-katie-chiaramonte-present-embracing-queer-family/

Cockysville Public Library, Cockysville, MD, June 12th, 6:30pm

https://www.bcpl.info/events-and-programs/list/227117

Washington Mystics Pride Night, Washingt...

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Published on June 03, 2024 19:16

May 29, 2024

Embracing Queer Family, The Podcast, Episode 5!

Check out episode 5 of Embracing Queer Family where Katie and Nia share more about our story and journey.



Since our new book Embracing Queer Family is out now, we though in order to get to know us a bit better, we'd let you in on a conversation with Josh Patterson that we had for his podcast, (Re)Thinking Faith. In this conversation we get more into how we met, when our theology started to change, and most importantly, who likes chocolate covered gummy bears (poll down below, please help us s...

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Published on May 29, 2024 18:52

March 7, 2024

Join Our Book Launch Team!

Hi friends! As we prepare to launch our book, Embracing Queer Family, we need your help! We're putting together a launch team and we need you! If you're interested in being on our team, just fill this form: https://shorturl.at/cevDQ.


What does being on our launch team mean? You just pre-order the book (many of you already have and if you can't financially, you can still be on the team), you get an advanced reader copy, you post about it a few times online, and you review it on Amazon on the lau...

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Published on March 07, 2024 18:46

February 27, 2024

Embracing Queer Family, The Podcast, Episode 3, Learning Curiosity!

Check out Episode 3 of our new Podcast, Love in the Face: Embracing Queer Family!



In this conversation, we sat down with Tree and Cindy Meinch to discuss coming out as trans non-binary and how their family has changed and grown. They teach us the power of being open and how to learn to be curious.

More information about Tree and their work can be found at https://tmeinch.com/ (hire them, they're an amazing writer!) and on ⁠LinkedIn⁠. You can also follow their personal journey ⁠@treemeinch⁠ on...

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Published on February 27, 2024 10:58