Daisy

Reading Myself in Code

By Daisy|2020-03-28T13:40:18-05:00November 29th, 2016|Categories: Guest Blogs|Tags: Representation, Trans|

Trans Awareness Week Series: Day #8 Previous Posts: Building Zoey's World by Anya Johanna DeNiro, We Need Trans Books… But We Really Need Trans Writers by Elliot Wake, Second Trans on the Moon by Kyle Lukoff, How the Fox Became by Fox Benwell, Interview: Alex Gino, The Room Where it Happens by Parrish Turner, Trans Stories Are Human Stories by April Daniels, Center Trans Voices: Introduction to Trans Awareness Week Series by Vee S.) by Sacha Lamb I was slow to understand my own feelings as gender dysphoria, and even slower to realize that I could look for transgender representation in the YA books that I love. [...]

How the Fox Became

By Daisy|2020-03-28T13:40:19-05:00November 18th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: nonbinary, Trans|

Trans Awareness Week: Day #4 Previous Posts: Interview: Alex Gino, The Room Where it Happens by Parrish Turner, Trans Stories Are Human Stories by April Daniels, Center Trans Voices: Introduction to Trans Awareness Week Series by Vee S.) by Fox Benwell I talk a lot, both as a transmasculine guy and as a writer, about the importance of words. The weight of them; how we should use them consciously, with care. How the words we choose have histories and connotations that they carry with them regardless of your intentions in the moment that you use them. I’ve talked about the intersections of [...]

So Now What? The Post-Coming Out Story in LGBTQ YA Fiction

By Daisy|2020-03-28T13:40:30-05:00November 11th, 2016|Categories: Author Guest Blog|Tags: Coming Out, Intersectionality, Representation|

by Emily O’Beirne Does every single LGBTQ young adult book have to be a coming out story? This is a sighed-out question we hear a lot these days. And while I do think that we need to pause and take some small pleasure in the fact that we’ve reached a cultural point where we can complain about the ubiquity of any kind of LGBTQ story, there’s definitely a glut of coming out narratives dominating this corner of the world. But let’s not kid ourselves, either. We’d be misguided to think that coming out stories are not still a vital [...]

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Reading Myself in Code

How the Fox Became

So Now What? The Post-Coming Out Story in LGBTQ YA Fiction