YA Pride

Interview: C.B. Lee & Rachel Davidson Leigh

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00September 23rd, 2016|Categories: Author Interview, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: Asian, Bisexual, Intersectionality, labels, PoC, Queer Girls, Queer Guys, Representation|

Bisexual Awareness Week Series Day #3 – Previous Posts: Introduction -- Duality, YA, and Crumpled Stickers -- Let's Push For More Nuanced Bi+ Representation Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee & Hold by Rachel Davidson Leigh are both ALL THE WAY UP on our TBRs! Today, we're so excited to have BOTH of these authors on GayYA! Add Not Your Sidekick & Hold to your TBR Buy Not Your Sidekick & Pre-Order Hold CB: Hello! Thank you so much for having me on your blog, I'm very excited to be here. I'm C.B. and from [...]

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Let’s Push For More Nuanced Bi+ Representation

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00September 22nd, 2016|Categories: Guest Blogs, Readers on Reading, Writers on Writing|Tags: Bisexual, Black, Intersectionality, Religion|

Bisexual Awareness Week Series Day #2 – Previous Posts: Introduction -- Duality, YA, and Crumpled Stickers by Angélique Gravely I didn't start actively reading LGBTQ+ YA until I was almost a college graduate. By that time, I had more or less accepted my bisexual attractions and my desire to be a YA writer so I dove into LGBTQ+ YA in search of inspiration for the queer stories I now felt drawn to write and, in all honesty, in search of reflections of parts of myself and my story I hadn't been able to acknowledge as a teen. While [...]

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Introduction to Bisexual Awareness Week Series 2016

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00September 21st, 2016|Categories: Updates and Announcements|Tags: Bisexual, pansexual|

During Bisexual Awareness Week, we want to use our space on GayYA to support bi, pan, and non-monosexual/romantic 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 [...]

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Duality, YA, and Crumpled Stickers

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00September 21st, 2016|Categories: Guest Blogs, Readers on Reading, Teen Voices|Tags: Bisexual, Representation|

Bisexual Awareness Week Day #1 - Previous Posts: Introduction by Shelly Z I’ve begun to see that there is a strange duality when it comes to my pride. I wear it openly online, and in person only to those who I know extremely well. I attended Pride for the second year this summer, and I am struck again and again by the duality upon reflection. A key highlight of Pride for me is seeing the colourful stickers that attendees wear to ID or to just celebrate. The only day I wear my “Proud” sticker is on Pride. I [...]

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Blog Tour & Giveaway: Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee

By Shelly|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00September 20th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Book Club, Fun Things, New Releases|Tags: Asian, Bisexual, Intersectionality|

Today we're very lucky to have C.B. Lee answering a few questions about Not Your Sidekick for the official blog tour! All of us at GayYA are SO EXCITED for this book! Hi C.B., thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book. Hello there! Thank you for having me here today. I'm C.B., a bisexual woman who grew up on the California coast. I'm a first generation Asian American and am very excited to introduce more characters whose backgrounds are like my own. My current novel is Not Your [...]

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GayYA Recommends Interview + Giveaway: Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00August 29th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Book Club, New Releases|Tags: contemporary, lesbian, Realistic, Religion, Romance, Rural|

Our newest GayYA Recommends title is Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown. (That means it's our next #GayYABookClub read, too!) Georgia Peaches hits shelves tomorrow (8/30) but we still have an ARC & some awesome swag! So we're doing a flash giveaway. How to enter: Share one reason you're excited about Georgia Peaches via the #GayYABookClub hashtag. Multiple reasons mean multiple entries, so tweet as many times as you like! A winner will be randomly selected tonight (8/29) at 10pm CST. If you don't win a copy, buy yours at a local store tomorrow, or request [...]

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Interview: Liz Kessler, author of Read Me Like a Book

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00August 25th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, New Releases, Writers on Writing|

I got the chance to interview Liz Kessler, author of the YA novel Read Me Like A Book, and the two middle-grade series Emily Windsnap and, Phillipa's Fairy Godsister. Read Me Like A Book is, in Liz's words, about "a girl going from her last boyfriend to her first girlfriend via a major crush on her English teacher." We're so excited this book is being published in the US! Thank you so much to Holly for transcribing this video! Check out Holly's fantastic blog here, and follow her on Twitter @CatchTheseWords. Vee: What was the original impetus for [...]

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Call for Submissions: Bisexual Awareness Week Series

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00August 24th, 2016|Categories: Updates and Announcements|Tags: Bisexual|

During Bisexual Awareness Week, we want to use our space on GayYA to support bi, pan, and polysexual/romantic 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 [...]

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Review: A Harvest of Ripe Figs by Shira Glassman

By Jennifer|2020-03-28T13:40:34-05:00August 16th, 2016|Categories: Book Review|Tags: Fantasy, lesbian, LGBTQIA, New Adult, Non Binary, PoC, Queer Girls, Romance, Trans|

by Jennifer Polish Cover page for A Harvest of Ripe Figs, by Shira Glassman. A red parchment-esque background behind a violin, its bow, and several purple figs, one of which is sliced in half, its lush red insides facing the front. Esther of the Singing Hands is Perach’s Sweetheart, a young and beautiful musician with a Girl Next Door image. When her violin is stolen after a concert in the capital city, she doesn't expect the queen herself to show up, intent upon solving the mystery. But Queen Shulamit--lesbian, intellectual, and mother of the six month [...]

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On the Queer Trans Experience: Because Sometimes Just One Letter Ain’t Enough

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:35-05:00June 30th, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Blogathon 2016, Writers on Writing|Tags: Queer Girls, Realistic, Trans|

by Meredith Russo One of the things most often praised about my book If I Was Your Girl isn’t the book itself, but the author’s note at the end (or the beginning, depending on if you’re reading the ARC or the final print) where I lay out my hope that cis people won’t take Amanda’s rather normative story as a set of rules trans people must follow and, more importantly for this post, where I admit that I had to make some concessions so the story would be more palatable for them. Let’s talk about those concessions, because [...]

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