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At the Crossroads of Identity: Intersectionality in Queer YA

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:38-05:00June 13th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Blogathon 2016|Tags: disability, Intersectionality, Race, Representation, YA Community|

by Tristina Wright The other day a friend sent me the link to a book review. It was short—maybe a few sentences—but one phrase in particular stood out to me: “…too diverse for me.” The phrase was in reference to the main character’s gender identity, skin color, and sexual orientation. Merely three points of identity. Count them on one hand. Three really isn’t much when you think about it. Three pieces of candy. Three slices of pizza. Three books to read. However, they were three-too-many different from the socially-constructed baseline of white, cisgender, heterosexual, abled, Christian (or similar [...]

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Considering Intersectionality

By Everett Maroon|2020-03-28T13:43:05-05:00May 23rd, 2011|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: Class, Intersectionality, Race, Representation|

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about creating multi-layered characters as one of my goals as a transgender writer. I was talking about LGBT characters at the time, but pulling back a bit on those parameters, I think the dedication to crafting believable, complex characters should extend to every personality in the narrative. And if we're going to support well rounded character development as writers, we should remember to support intersectionality while we're at it. All I mean here about intersectionality is that I want to include a liberatory understanding of the differently positioned, race, ethnic, class, [...]