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Review: Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 4th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: Middle Grade, Realistic, Trans|

Happy Release day to Ami Polonksy! Gracefully Grayson, a middle-grade book about a transgender girl is out on shelves today. Find it in a local bookstore (this may entail badgering them to order it) or buy it online! Make sure to give the author a follow on Twitter as well, and wish her a happy release day! by Nadia “I feel like I’m covered in a layer of ice that is starting to melt. I can practically feel it loosening around me.” GRACEFULLY GRAYSON is a story about a transgender girl. Grayson Sender is a 12-year-old, a [...]

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Liraz’s Asexual Armor: Second-Guessing AceAro Representation in YA

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00November 3rd, 2014|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: Aromantic, asexual, Representation|

Asexual Awareness Week has ended, but Aromantic Awareness Week has just begun! We were not aware of it until a couple days ago so do not have a separate series (though many of the posts from last week touch on it). But we're thrilled to present this fabulous guest post from Sarah (who is also helping to run LauraLamFans)! Minor spoilers for Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor. by Sarah When I re-immersed myself in reading YA books freshman year of college, I knew I was asexual, but I was still content to turn to popular romance-heavy young [...]

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Straight is Not My Default: Understanding Katniss Everdeen as an Ace Aro

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:24-05:00October 29th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: Aromantic, asexual|

For Asexual Awareness Week we reached out to bloggers who identify somewhere on the asexual spectrum to write posts related to asexuality and YA. We’re happy to bring you the third post in this series! Check back every day this week for more posts from other great guest bloggers. by Nakia I was seventeen when I read Mockingjay. I’d read the first two books in The Hunger Games series less than a year earlier, a recommendation from my contemporary literature teacher who convinced me that it was worth my time if only because the protagonist was a woman of [...]

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Reading Without Role Models: Asexual Awareness Week Day #3

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:26-05:00October 28th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: asexual|

For Asexual Awareness Week we reached out to bloggers who identify somewhere on the asexual spectrum to write posts related to asexuality and YA. We’re happy to bring you the third post in this series! Check back every day this week for more posts from other great guest bloggers. by Em Murphy When I realized I was asexual, everything made a lot more sense. I was in my last year of college and when I finally acknowledged that I wasn’t attracted to anyone, it made me a lot more comfortable with myself and with how I interacted with other people. [...]

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A Journey of Discovery: Asexuality and Fanfiction

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:27-05:00October 27th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: Aromantic, asexual, Fan Fiction|

For Asexual Awareness Week we reached out to bloggers who identify somewhere on the asexual spectrum to write posts related to asexuality and YA. We're happy to bring you the second post in this series! Check back every day this week for more posts from other great guest bloggers. If you missed the first one, here it is! Warning: This post contains slightly mature content. It may be inappropriate for young audiences. by Dragon A I discovered my asexuality through fanfiction. Put like that, it sounds slightly ridiculous. However, if I was not such an avid reader of fanfic I'm pretty [...]

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Let’s Save Some Lives, Shall We? Asexuality in Mainstream YA

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:27-05:00October 26th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: asexual, Representation, Visibility|

We're thrilled to bring you our first guest post for Asexual Awareness Week! We reached out to bloggers who identify somewhere on the asexual spectrum to write posts related to asexuality and YA. Check back every day this week for more posts from other great guest bloggers! by Teresa Santos How many mainstream YA books have you read with canon openly asexual characters? None? Don't worry, you won't be the only one. After all, the number of such books is a shiny, round zero. But, you might say, what about Liraz in Daughter of Smoke and Bone? What of [...]

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Review: Pantomime by Laura Lam

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:27-05:00October 25th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Club, Book Review, Teen Voices|Tags: Fantasy, Intersex, Non Binary, Speculative|

by Georgie Penney Compared to my usual reading choices, this was the furthest out of my comfort zone that I’ve read in a long time, and I’m so glad that I decided to give it a go. Pantomime starts as the tale of two apparently unlinked young people: the young would-be trapeze artist Micah Grey, and the noblewoman who calls herself Gene who’s about to be married off, should her parents get their way. These boy-girl dual storylines are increasingly common in YA so I assumed something along the lines of a love story, albeit an unusual one. [...]

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How about NO?

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:27-05:00October 24th, 2014|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: gay, Queer Guys, Representation|

Your fave is problematic; deal with it. Disclaimer: I’m not here to bash authors or to tell you not to pick these books up. I’m just being honest about what I believe is not good LGBTQIA+ representation at all. Spoilers for WINGER. When I say queer I mean LGBTQIA+. We have all been there. You hear about this AMAZING BOOK, everybody in the blogosphere/BookTube/Twitter is talking about it and giving it 5 stars left and right…so you decide you have to read it! And you do. You spend money on a book you feel is going to rock [...]

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Interview With Alaya Dawn Johnson: Transcript

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:27-05:00October 23rd, 2014|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Book Club|Tags: PoC, Queer Girls, Speculative|

We interviewed Alaya Dawn Johnson author of The Summer Prince and Love is the Drug. Find the recorded interview here! V: Hey everyone, I’m Victoria. K: And I’m Kathleen. Today we have Alaya Dawn Johnson with us, author of our September book of the month, The Summer Prince. Alaya, thank you for joining us, all the way from Mexico City! A: Thanks so much for having me. K: The Summer Prince is a dystopian science fiction novel that takes place many years in the future. V: We chose it for our September book of the month because it [...]

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Review: My Date from Hell (The Blooming Goddess Trilogy) by Tellulah Darling

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:42:27-05:00October 22nd, 2014|Categories: Archive, Book Review|Tags: Fantasy, Queer Guys, Romance|

by Simren Handa In My Date From Hell, book two in the Blooming Goddess Trilogy, Tellulah Darling has crafted a perfectly imaginative and witty novel filled with quirky, interesting characters which appeal wonderfully to the YA market. I laughed numerous times at some of the lively one liners and, overall, thoroughly enjoyed reading about Sophie, Kai, Festos, Theo, Hannah and Pierce. Each character was distinctive in their appeal and as a protagonist, I thought that Sophie was believably vulnerable; a sixteen year old with issues and complications, plenty of snark and feisty charm, battling through the trials of growing [...]

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