A Letter From My Younger Self
For today's blogathon post, we're so excited to share this video from Aaron H. Aceves, author of the forthcoming THIS IS WHY THEY HATE US. In this video, he talks about reading a [...]
Finding My Queer Self Through Books
by Adrienne Tooley I didn’t come out until 24. I didn’t even start questioning until 23. I was a late bloomer in many senses, furthered by my own obliviousness. [...]
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Ciara Smyth I am a terrible person to write about queer joy because I am cranky and when I smile people think I’m being sarcastic. An anecdote I [...]
An Abundance of Serendipities
by Lucas Rocha Hi, guys! YA Pride invited me to write something about bookish queer joy, and that’s a subject that makes me so happy because, to me, books [...]
A Rainbow Will Literally Save
by NoNieqa Ramos If one were to place the reviews of the DISTURBED GIRL’S DICTIONARY into a word cloud generator, one would see words like brutal, raw, gritty, unflinching [...]
There’s Magic Out There For All of Us
by Emery Lee I’ve been fortunate enough to have a lot of moments of queer bookish joy since first joining the book community in 2015. Queer books have become such [...]
Our well deserved happy endings / Nossos tão merecidos finais felizes
by Vitor Martins In 2016 I was unemployed, binge watching Grey's Anatomy and living through a really dark phase of my life. Then I decided to write a book [...]
Queer Bookish Joy
by L.C. Rosen Queer Bookish Joy. That’s quite a thing to ask for these days. The whole point of these posts is to lift people up and make them [...]
Finding My Way to Queer Fairytales and a Book Deal
by Leslie Vedder I’ve always wanted to be a writer. This has taken a lot of different forms for me over the years. Illustrator/author of stapled together grade-school masterpieces. Closet [...]