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Trans Girl Classic Gets New Edition
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Trans Girl Classic Gets New Edition

Archive, Author Interview, Readers on Reading, Writers on Writing

Trans Girl Classic Gets New Edition

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:08-05:00January 25th, 2018|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Readers on Reading, Writers on Writing|Tags: Trans|

When Being Emily came out in 2012, it was the first YA novel to tell the story of a transgender girl from her perspective. This May, a new edition will be released with updated language and science, new scenes, a new author’s note and an introduction by poet and Harvard professor Stephanie Burt. To celebrate this upcoming edition, Being Emily author Rachel Gold and Stephanie Burt interviewed each other about the novel and related topics. We begin with questions for both of us and then devolve into Rachel sidetracking Stephanie to talk about comic books. (Which is really [...]

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10 Inspiring Quotes to Start the New Year With Pride
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10 Inspiring Quotes to Start the New Year With Pride

Archive, Book Lists, Fun Things

10 Inspiring Quotes to Start the New Year With Pride

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:09-05:00January 1st, 2018|Categories: Archive, Book Lists, Fun Things|

by Kaitlin Mitchell Happy New Year! We’re so excited to announce that we’re bringing back book lists! Each month, we’ll feature a themed list to keep your tbr lists full. To start off 2018 on a positive note, our first list features 10 uplifting quotes from some of our favorite books. Do you have any favorite quotes from LGBTQIA+ YA you think we missed? Add them in the comments, or tell us on Twitter @YA_Pride! “If you want a chance at being happy, exist. Because yes, life can suck, but as long as you’re alive, there’s a chance [...]

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‘Room at the Table’: Pulse, Vincent Rutherford, and the Work We Have Left to Do

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:10-05:00July 1st, 2017|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs|Tags: Activism, Advocacy, Coming Out, Native, Non Binary|

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 14 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Weezie Wood I woke up the morning of June 12, 2016, to a text from my cousin asking me if I had seen the news. I was already running late for brunch with my dad and I typed out a quick “No, what’s up?” before heading out the door. I should have heard the news in the car. By that point in the day, there wasn’t a news or radio station that wasn’t blasting what had happened around 2 am that morning in Orlando, but I wouldn’t learn [...]

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How Reading Got Me Through My Teens And Beyond

By Daisy|2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 29th, 2017|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Readers on Reading|Tags: Black, Latinx, Non Binary|

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 13 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by EC King Depression and anxiety have always run deeply in my veins. These issues are hereditary in my case and, though they are not my constant companions, they are definitely frequent visitors. Even though I was a privileged, seemingly happy and rambunctious child, I remember clearly the days or weeks when I felt a malaise that I didn’t know how to describe. I called it “being bored”, as I lay in bed staring listlessly out the window without even a book to keep me company, or as [...]

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You Are Not Alone: Finding Community as a Nonbinary Teen

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 28th, 2017|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Teen Voices|Tags: asexual, Bisexual, Intersectionality, Non Binary, PoC|

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 12 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Kav If I'm being honest with myself, I never thought of myself as “straight.” Growing up, I never labeled myself that way and instead thought along the lines of “I’ll love who I love, no matter their gender.” That's not to say that I never struggled to discover my gender and romantic and sexual orientations or that I never had a coming out experience - it's definitely been a rocky ride. But when it came down to it, I was always fortunate enough to have been sure [...]

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I am the captain of my soul: On Being a Queer, Muslim Teen

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 23rd, 2017|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Teen Voices|Tags: Intersectionality, Muslim, PoC, Queer Girls|

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 11 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Warda When I’m asked what it’s like being a queer teen in today’s age I kind of want to counter with: “Well, what’s it like having two eyes and a nose?” You know, something snarky and light-hearted that makes it clear queerness is perfectly normal without having to go too much into my own experience. It’s something I’ve always shied away from; sometimes I can’t find any words and other times there aren’t enough words in the world for me to even begin to explain. But, hey, [...]

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Interview: Robin Stevenson, author of PRIDE, a Middle Grade Non-Fiction Book
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Interview: Robin Stevenson, author of PRIDE, a Middle Grade Non-Fiction Book

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Interview: Robin Stevenson, author of PRIDE, a Middle Grade Non-Fiction Book

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 15th, 2017|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: Activism, Middle Grade, Non Fiction|

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 7 - Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon For gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their supporters, June is a month of pride and celebration, and the high point of that month is the Pride Day Parade. Pride Day is a spectacular and colorful event. But there is a whole lot more to Pride than rainbow flags and amazing outfits. So what exactly are we celebrating on Pride Day? How did this event come to be? And what does Pride mean to the people who celebrate it? Last year at ALA, I got to chat with [...]

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Introducing: #BooksToTeens
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Introducing: #BooksToTeens

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Introducing: #BooksToTeens

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 12th, 2017|Categories: Archive, Updates and Announcements|

We’re thrilled to announce our new campaign: #BooksToTeens! #BooksToTeens is a new initiative to help get more LGBTQIA+ books into the hands of teens that need them. We’ll feature a new crowdfunding project every other week on GayYA’s Twitter. Most of the projects will be donorschoose.org fundraisers, but we may branch out into Kickstarters for queer anthologies, or other similar crowdfunding pushes. Anything that will eventually help get more LGBTQIA+ books to teens! We’ll use the hashtag #BooksToTeens to promote them. A good portion of what we do at GayYA can be boiled down to one goal: get [...]

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“An Anchor to Guide Them”: On the Importance of LGBTQIA+ Media

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 10th, 2017|Categories: Archive, Guest Blogs, Readers on Reading, Writers on Writing|Tags: Black, Intersectionality, Queer Girls|

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 4 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Kiana Nguyen I kissed my first girlfriend in 2011 when I was 18, and it was the first kiss that held my entire heart. I was excited, I was anxious, I was so happy to finally have them in my arms I felt close to bursting. I was so scared of finally feeling real that I wanted to run. Kissing Casey*, who later came out as genderqueer and trans, was an experience so unreal and so right, I felt starved for the joy that rushed through [...]

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You Do Not Have to Be Good

By Ariel|2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 9th, 2017|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Guest Blogs, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: Bisexual, Queer Girls|

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 3 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Rebecca Podos You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild [...]

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