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Heroes Like Us

By |2021-09-11T19:05:04-05:00September 13th, 2021|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, New Voices|Tags: , , |

Want to support Elayna Mae Darcy's Queer YA fantasy novel? Consider backing their Kickstarter, which runs through September! by Elayna Mae Darcy  Content warning: discussions of fatphobia, homophobia, depression, and anxiety As a kid, I devoured books and fell in love with stories, even though the heroes never looked like me.  Fat kids were goofy sidekicks, if they were there at all. Fat teens were never much more than punchlines to cruel jokes. Fat adults were cautionary tales, faceless bodies on TV warning about obesity. No one of my size was ever allowed to fill [...]

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Queerbaiting Survival Guide: Queer Writers on Affirming Representation – Part 2

By |2021-01-14T12:43:48-05:00January 14th, 2021|Categories: Archive|Tags: , |

In November, the long-running TV show Supernatural came to an end. The finale left not only queer fans but also fans who are struggling with depression and trauma recovery feeling deeply hurt and unheard by one of their favorite shows. Although our focus here at YA Pride is not on TV, we are all too familiar with the pain of being let down by media. It hurts in a way that few other things do. While most fans have recuperated a bit from the ending of the show, some of the pain still remains. And although Supernatural is the most recent [...]

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Queerbaiting Survival Guide: Queer Writers on Affirming Representation – Part 1

By |2021-01-13T00:22:17-05:00January 13th, 2021|Categories: Archive|Tags: , |

In November, the long-running TV show Supernatural came to an end. The finale left not only queer fans but also fans who are struggling with depression and trauma recovery feeling deeply hurt and unheard by one of their favorite shows. Although our focus here at YA Pride is not on TV, we are all too familiar with the pain of being let down by media. It hurts in a way that few other things do. While most fans have recuperated a bit from the ending of the show, some of the pain still remains. And although [...]

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The Solitary Endeavour Of Queerness

By |2020-09-17T23:12:41-05:00September 18th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , , |

by Adiba Jaigirdar Growing up queer can feel really lonely in a lot of ways. It can feel lonely in that you don’t even realise you are growing up queer. It can feel lonely in that when you do realise you’re queer, you don’t know if you’re allowed to be. Because you’re Asian, and you’re Muslim, and those things seem like an antithesis to queerness. All the queer people you have ever known have not looked like you. All the queer people in TV or movies or books have not looked like you. So surely…you can’t be queer?  [...]

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A Letter From My Younger Self

By |2020-09-16T22:48:55-05:00September 17th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , , |

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 letter from his younger self, and how his journey towards being published has been eighteen years in the making! -- Aaron H. Aceves is a Mexican-American writer born and raised in East L.A. He graduated in 2015 from Harvard, where he received the Le Baron Russell Briggs Award after being nominated by Jamaica Kincaid. His work has appeared in Germ Magazine, Raspa [...]

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Finding My Queer Self Through Books

By |2020-09-16T01:18:15-05:00September 16th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: , |

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. I didn’t see queer women in the books I read, the media I consumed, or even, really, in the world around me. I knew they existed, but I didn’t know them, or their feelings, or their journeys. And I was worse off for it. When I met the woman who is now my wife, once I’d done a deep dive and examined myself [...]

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The Importance of Being Earnest

By |2020-09-14T00:02:25-05:00September 15th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: , |

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 like to tell, in outraged tones, is about the time my oldest friend read my first ever manuscript and said with genuine surprise, ‘This is funny. Which is weird, because you’re…not.” I am yet to recover from this mortal wound. I’m one of those people who cannot really appreciate anything for longer than two seconds because as soon as I achieve something I [...]

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An Abundance of Serendipities

By |2020-09-13T19:51:32-05:00September 14th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: , , |

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 + queer = joy. I know that we are not especially joyful right now with all that’s happening in the world, so I want to spark a little smile on your face by sharing one of the most exciting moments in my bookish life: my first international book deal. Okay, let’s start from the beginning: my name is Lucas Rocha, and I’m a [...]

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A Rainbow Will Literally Save

By |2020-09-12T20:59:20-05:00September 13th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: |

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 ... and one of my personal favorites “move over dead white guys.” What you won’t find is joy, and certainly not queer joy. Yet to me, first and foremost, TDGD, was a love story and Macy’s indefatigable devotion for Alma accelerates like George’s motorcycle past the explosive ending into hope and possibility. THE TRUTH IS is a different creature entirely. In that word [...]

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Joy/Pain

By |2020-09-10T06:32:56-05:00September 10th, 2020|Categories: Archive|

by Adam Sass  Holy cow, what is the author of queer oppression book Surrender Your Sons doing talking about queer joy? On what PLANET? What BUSINESS do I even have here? In my upcoming debut Surrender Your Sons, Connor Major is sent to a mysterious island conversion therapy camp, where he befriends the other captive teens and plots the camp’s destruction. Joyous, right? Well, this queer joy is actually probably closer to queer catharsis. The joy of breaking a cycle of trauma. The joy of righting a wrong. Big arms held up [...]

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