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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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The War of the Words Started in November

By Ariel|2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 14th, 2017|Categories: Author Guest Blog, Guest Blogs, Writers on Writing|

by Danny Lore There are a lot of things in this world that our conservative nightmare of a government will try and take from you. That’s undeniable, even though we’re going to fight our asses off to make sure it doesn’t happen. They want to limit our access to healthcare, our ability to support ourselves, to educate ourselves— all while trying to convince us we don’t count as human. I’d be lying if I wasn’t upfront about that. Hell, that’s why you’re reading this in the first place, to figure out a way to slog through this GOP [...]

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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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Sometimes You Just Outlast It

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:14-05:00June 7th, 2017|Categories: Guest Blogs, Writers on Writing|

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 1 - Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Brent Lambert Writing this makes me a bit sad because I really wanted better for all of you. I hoped that by the time I got the courage to tell this story that it would be antiquated and an experience that felt too far removed for any teenager of today to really be able to grasp. Unfortunately, I hoped too much for the future and we are where we are. And now instead of looking forward to my story being a relic, I find that I [...]

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Introduction to GayYA’s 2017 Blogathon

By Marilla|2020-03-28T13:40:14-05:00June 6th, 2017|Categories: Archive, Readers on Reading, Updates and Announcements, Writers on Writing|

What. A. Year. I began planning this blogathon the week after the U.S. election. Over the past six years, our blogathons have focused on general love of LGBTQIA+ YA, but this year, I knew that that would fall short. I was personally seeking something more, something that would help me grasp the world as it is now, and I figured many of our community members would be as well. This year, our blogathon explores two major themes: intergenerational conversation and the role that story plays in resistance, resilience, and joy. Over the last year, I’ve been struck by [...]

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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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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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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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