YA Pride

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. [...]

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Building Zoey’s World

By Gwin|2020-03-28T13:40:18-05:00November 28th, 2016|Categories: Author Guest Blog, Guest Blogs|Tags: Trans|

Trans Awareness Week: Day #7 Previous Posts: 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Daniels, Center Trans Voices: Introduction to Trans Awareness Week Series by Vee S.) by Anya Johanna DeNiro My new (unpublished) novel Glitchblood is the story of an 18-year-old trans woman named Zoey. She happens to be an assistant dragon trainer on the most popular television show on the planet—a sword and [...]

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We Need Trans Books… But We Really Need Trans Writers

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:18-05:00November 22nd, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, New Releases|Tags: New Adult, Trans|

Trans Awareness Week Series: Day #6 Previous Posts: 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 Elliot Wake About 0.6% of the population of the United Sates is transgender. Which doesn't sound like much, until you put it another way: 1.4 million people in the US are trans. That's the population of a city like Philadelphia or Phoenix. And it's a conservative estimate: many [...]

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Second Trans on the Moon

By Gwin|2020-03-28T13:40:19-05:00November 21st, 2016|Categories: Guest Blogs, Teachers & Librarians|Tags: Trans|

Trans Awareness Week Series: Day #5 Previous Posts: 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 Kyle Lukoff ARE YOU: An elementary school librarian A resident of the United States of America A transsexual (you can also prefer the words trans or transgender or whatever, but I really enjoy the word transsexual) (also I suppose I should limit this to men/masculine-spectrum people but it’s not necessary I guess) Possessed of some muscles If [...]

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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 [...]

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Interview: Alex Gino, author of GEORGE

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:19-05:00November 17th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview|Tags: Middle Grade, Trans|

Trans Awareness Week: Day #3 Previous Posts: 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.) This Summer I got to go to ALA in Orlando, which was an incredible and intense experience. I wrote some about how validating my experience was as a trans teen here. One of the highlights was getting to talk with Alex Gino, author of the Middle Grade novel George. The fact that Alex uses they/them pronouns, wrote a trans book published by Scholastic, and actually has [...]

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The Room Where It Happens

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:19-05:00November 16th, 2016|Categories: Guest Blogs, Publishing People|Tags: Representation, Trans|

Trans Awareness Week: Day #2 Previous Posts: Trans Stories Are Human Stories by April Daniels, Center Trans Voices: Introduction to Trans Awareness Week Series by Vee S.) by Parrish Turner With each new “trans book,” I hold my breath as I read over the summaries and quotes which litter the pages. Without fail, I will see the words “dark secret,” “eye-opening,” or “change the way you think.” I find myself disappointed every time. The fact is, trans people are still seen as a mysterious other. Through many people’s hard work, we are just starting to see books about transgender [...]

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Trans Stories Are Human Stories

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:29-05:00November 15th, 2016|Categories: Author Guest Blog, New Releases|Tags: own voices, Trans|

Trans Awareness Week Series: Day #1 (Previous Posts: Center Trans Voices: Introduction to Trans Awareness Week Series by Vee S.) by April Daniels So, I wrote a book. It’s a good book, and I’m proud of it. But ever since we swung into action marketing it, I’ve been having a lot of Complicated Thoughts about where the YA representation discussion is right now, particularly as it relates to trans people. Dreadnought is being billed as the story of a girl who transitions, abruptly, publicly, and must deal with the consequences. That’s true as far as it goes but what [...]

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Center Trans Voices: Introduction to Trans Awareness Week Series

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:29-05:00November 14th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Updates and Announcements|Tags: Trans|

Since election day I've been in a state of despair. I couldn't write this introduction, because all I could think of was giving up. Now, as I write this, I am sitting with a cat on my lap and the sun is warm on my skin. I am cat-sitting for a genderqueer author friend, and I am surrounded by shelves of queer and trans books. This is a safe space. I'm ready to write this introduction. I am really, really scared. We have no idea what's going to come next, and that makes it all the more terrifying. [...]

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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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