No Dumbledores Need Apply
Hey! We mixed up our links today, 5/20/15. If you're looking for the post on what teens on tumblr are saying or about the call for diversity and having limited spaces to call home, check [...]
Making Choices in LGBTQ YA
by Dahlia Adler I've spoken a lot about how Under the Lights wasn't originally a f/f romance. I had always planned to write one, but my very first was going to be the YA I'm actually drafting [...]
Labels are for Soup Cans (and also for me)
by Nita Tyndall I was twelve the first time I realized I was queer. Back then, I identified as bisexual. Although I didn’t think I was a lesbian (even though I’d never felt attracted to [...]
Graphic Novel Review: Lumberjanes.
Lumberjanes (Boom! Studios, 2014) One of the biggest challenges I face when reading, reviewing and now, publishing, is to find balance in the types of queers stories I read/review/publish. It often feels to [...]
We’re All Bending Reality
By Alex London As a closeted teenager, thinking about any kind of future for myself was an act of speculative fiction. I attended a conservative all-boys prep school, a place where, at the time, athletes [...]
Book Review: None Of The Above by I.W. Gregorio
by Alexandra von Klan from Inter/Act Youth None of the Above is GayYA's book of the month. Grab a copy now and get ready to discuss later this month in our book club twit chat! [...]
I’ve got a girl in the war
by Marieke Nijkamp “The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children the dragons can be killed.” With these [...]
M.E. Kerr and Deliver Us from Evie
by Sara Zarr I knew about M.E. Kerr long before I read her. When I was growing up in the seventies and making regular visits to our neighborhood library, there was a beat-up paperback on [...]
How To Make Your Library a Safe Place for Queer Teens
by Angie Manfredi Last year, I chose Alex London’s YA dystopian thriller Proxy as my teen book club’s selection. This meant my library would purchase multiple copies, many teens would read it, and then we [...]
Are They LGBTQIA? Let Your Characters Tell You
by Karen Sandler As a cis white author who’s inching ever closer to old lady status, I experienced a couple fortunate circumstances in my youth that shaped me as a writer. First, when I transferred [...]