Review: The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
A heart-stopping story of love, death, technology, and art set amid the tropics of a futuristic Brazil. The lush city of Palmares Tres shimmers with tech and tradition, with screaming gossip casters and practiced politicians. [...]
Girl Sex 101
Editor's Note: There are NSFW text and images in this post. How did you learn about sex? From health class? Your parents? Your first time? Porn? It’s hard to learn about sex at all, even [...]
Interview With Francesca Lia Block
Francesca Lia Block is the author of our August Book of the Month, Love in the Time of Global Warming! Hope you enjoy. 🙂 [Transcript to come.] This is our first recorded interview-- if you [...]
Minor Queer Characters in YA
The unfortunate truth is that most mainstream YA centres around a boy-girl romance with maybe a bit of magic or tragedy or dystopian violence thrown in. That's it. There's very little room on the Teen [...]
We Are Not Just a Diversity Checkbox Part 3
There are people who partially fit the stereotypes of their sexuality (butch lesbians, effeminate gay men, sex-repulsed asexuals, etc.) but in media they are often presented as caricatures. These negative portrayals in media lead to [...]
The Impact of Representation
I had something else I was going to write on representation. But then I heard about Robin Williams, and I thought of other things. About feeling alone. About depression, that horrendous, hideous beast that traps [...]
We Are Not Just a Diversity Checkbox Part 2
Editors note: Part One of the We Are Not Just a Diversity Checkbox mini-series addressed background MOGII characters in media, and why there is no good excuse to leave out queer characters. In Part Two, Emily [...]
Jack by Shannon LC Cate: review by Simren Handa
Mama doesn't like boys, but Jack's not like most boys. Born a girl during the Civil War, Jack has been passing as a boy in the slums of Five Points, Manhattan, since running away from [...]
We Are Not Just a Diversity Checkbox Part 1
Editor's note: We are so excited to be hosting this mini-series We Are Not Just a Diversity Checkbox. It will be updated every Friday and wrap up the last week of August. Emily K, one of [...]
Review: Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block
First things first, this a beautiful book. You don't even need to read it to realise that it's beautiful: you can tell by the way the dust jacket is all textured and pretty, with the [...]