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Call for Volunteers: Content Team Members

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:14-05:00May 5th, 2017|Categories: Archive, Updates and Announcements|

We're looking for 2-3 new volunteers to join our Content Team! Content Team Member Content Team members keep GayYA going by formatting posts before they go up and scheduling promotional tweets on Twitter. Help broaden our readership base and enable our community members find posts relevant to them and their interests by promoting our content and making our posts look awesome! Typically, 1-4 posts are sent to each Content Team member per month. (Exceptions include months without posts, and month-long blogathons.) Posts will be sent to Content Team members at least 72 hours before the post goes up; the post should be formatted [...]

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Finding the other story: disentangling love from the narrative

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:14-05:00February 23rd, 2017|Categories: Guest Blogs, Readers on Reading, Writers on Writing|Tags: Aromantic|

Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series: Day 4 by Natalie Ritter (i) While considering all the ways I could approach writing something worthwhile about how being aro and reading stories intersect, I was reminded of an instance in a speculative fiction creative writing class I took in undergrad. When it came to sci-fi and fantasy, it quickly became clear that, in this entirely white and mostly male class, there were “rules” that my classmates expected (and almost demanded) of sci-fi and fantasy stories. In a sense, there was a “contract” that these readers brought to this genre, and they were [...]

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Aromantic Headcanons and Making Room for Friend-shipping

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:14-05:00February 22nd, 2017|Categories: Author Guest Blog, Readers on Reading, Writers on Writing|

Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series: Day 3 by Claudie Arseneault You know how ships go. Two people interact and have great chemistry, and suddenly fandom is all over them. They have a ship name that’s a mash-up of their two names, your tumblr dash is filled with them kissing and holding hands and being cuties, and the wild headcanons and alternate universes just keep coming. And why not? Look at them get along. They’re just perfect for each other, right? Here’s the thing: perfect for each other, for me, does not systematically mean romance. My experience of fandom [...]

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The Myth of Arospec People and Loneliness

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:14-05:00February 21st, 2017|Categories: Guest Blogs, Readers on Reading, Teen Voices|Tags: Aromantic|

Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series: Day 2 by Ruairi There was a horrible moment in realising I was aromantic where it hit me for the first time that the majority of my life plans had gone out the window. Where I'd been taught there should be experimentation and heartbreak and marriage and a happily ever after, usually with some flowers or flowery language involved, I suddenly realised I didn't want any of it, really. All these experiences, these plans, these expectations for the rest of my life didn't feel right. And it was terrifying. I assumed that my life [...]

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Mistlands Launch + Aromantic Representation in Webcomics

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:14-05:00February 20th, 2017|Categories: Book Lists, Guest Blogs, Writers on Writing|Tags: Aromantic, asexual, comics, webcomics|

Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series: Day 1 by Laya Rose I’ve recently launched my webcomic, Mistlands! It’s about an aroace half fey girl from a small New Zealand town who suddenly gets herself and her friends caught up in the world of the sidhe – up until now she’s only ever come into contact with smaller harmless fey. It’s a combination of some of my favourite things: faeries, LGBTQIA+ characters, and the New Zealand landscape. This story has been in the works for a couple of years and I’m so happy I’m finally starting it! I’d never really [...]

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Introduction: Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week Series

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:14-05:00February 20th, 2017|Categories: Archive|

During our Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week series, we want to use our space on GayYA to support AroSpec voices. Last year, we decided to host Awareness Week Series over the various LGBTQIA+ Awareness Weeks throughout the year. Though we hope to include everyone on the site at all times, we wanted to dedicate a concentrated space to people from a specific community to talk about how they’re represented in YA. The response from the community was phenomenal– we got to feature many fantastic and thought-provoking posts, and watched as the community fostered some nuanced discussions via our identity-centric Twit Chats. [...]

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Call for Submissions: Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:14-05:00January 4th, 2017|Categories: Archive, Updates and Announcements|Tags: Aromantic|

During Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week, we want to use our space on GayYA to support AroSpec voices. Last year, we decided to host Awareness Week Series over the various LGBTQIA+ Awareness Weeks throughout the year. Though we hope to include everyone on the site at all times, we wanted to dedicate a concentrated space to people from a specific community to talk about how they’re represented in YA. The response from the community was phenomenal– we got to feature many fantastic and thought-provoking posts, and watched as the community fostered some nuanced discussions via our identity-centric Twit Chats. I personally remember feeling [...]

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Even a Little is a Lot: Asexual Representation in YA

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:17-05:00December 16th, 2016|Categories: Author Guest Blog, New Releases, Publishing People, Writers on Writing|Tags: asexual, Dystopia, Speculative|

Asexuality in YA Series: Day #5 Previous Posts: Representing the Asexual Experience by Tabitha O'Connell | My Kind of Normal | What’s So Important About Ace Representation? by Kazul Wolf | Navigating the In-Between: Demisexuality in YA Lit by Dill Werner | Introduction: Asexuality in YA Series by Vee S. The future always seemed bright, but it turns out that was just global warming. Meals don’t come in pills, shoes don’t lace themselves, and there are flying cars, but the gas mileage sucks. There is one difference. People have always searched the internet for answers. Now they actually worship it. Pen Nowen’s father [...]

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My Kind of Normal

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:18-05:00December 14th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Readers on Reading, Teen Voices|Tags: asexual|

Asexuality in YA Series: Day #3 Previous Posts: What's So Important About Ace Representation? by Kazul Wolf | Navigating the In-Between: Demisexuality in YA Lit by Dill Werner | Introduction: Asexuality in YA Series by Vee S. I thought there was something wrong with me. Some sort of genetic, chemical, or otherwise biological malfunction that made me so much different from every other girl in my grade. While my third grade classmates whispered about the boys they kissed in the girls’ bathroom stalls, I stayed silent. When my friend said she was in love, I didn’t know what to say. [...]

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What’s So Important About Ace Representation?

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:18-05:00December 13th, 2016|Categories: Guest Blogs|Tags: asexual, Representation|

by Kazul Wolf We all know that representation matters. This is a blog on diversity, I mean, it goes without saying. Asexual representation, however, is a tricky thing. Growing up ace but completely ignorant of what asexuality is wasn’t a fun experience, as most asexuals would know. I was never into the things that other girls liked, but not in the I'm-better-than-them nonsense sorta way, I just didn't get it. Why did the princesses always want princes when they could have DRAGONS? So I never got into Disney, I avoided anything that was pink or frilly because I [...]

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