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The Solitary Endeavour Of Queerness
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The Solitary Endeavour Of Queerness

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The Solitary Endeavour Of Queerness

By Vee|2020-09-17T23:12:41-05:00September 18th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Writers on Writing|Tags: Asian, Intersectionality, Muslim, Queer Girls, Romance|

by Adiba Jaigirdar Growing up queer can feel really lonely in a lot of ways. It can feel lonely in that you don’t even realise you are growing up queer. It can feel lonely in that when you do realise you’re queer, you don’t know if you’re allowed to be. Because you’re Asian, and you’re Muslim, and those things seem like an antithesis to queerness. All the queer people you have ever known have not looked like you. All the queer people in TV or movies or books have not looked like you. So surely…you can’t be queer? [...]

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The Path to Publication: Writing the Queer Black Girls of Cinderella Is Dead
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The Path to Publication: Writing the Queer Black Girls of Cinderella Is Dead

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The Path to Publication: Writing the Queer Black Girls of Cinderella Is Dead

By Vee|2020-08-13T20:48:08-05:00August 17th, 2020|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog|Tags: Black, Fantasy, Intersectionality, New Releases, PoC, publishing, Queer Girls, querying|

by Kalynn Bayron I’ve always been a fan of genre fiction. From horror to fantasy to sci-fi. I love all things magical and atmospheric and bone chilling. I’m a writer because I was a reader, first. In those stories I found ghosts, mythical creatures, people with impossible powers, aliens, orcs, fairies, elves, kings and queens. What I didn’t see was Black people or queer people. Until I discovered Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Audre Lorde, and Octavia Butler I didn’t see Black women centered and I didn’t see queer people being treated with care and concern, [...]

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Navigating Privilege and Cultural Capital as a Black Queer Writer

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:08-05:00February 23rd, 2018|Categories: Guest Blogs, Writers on Writing|Tags: Black, Intersectionality, PoC, Queer Girls|

By Allison Jeanne Alcéna Children’s literature writers are often encouraged to pen the stories they wanted to see when they were younger. In my case, I never saw my whole self in children’s books, although I sometimes saw parts. As an adult, I now understand that what was being reflected back to me were the privileged parts of my identity, allowing me to see pieces of myself in the slew of middle-class, white characters that were on the market. And because I saw certain parts of myself in books, I then felt like those must be the most [...]

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Interview: Claire Kann, author of Let’s Talk About Love

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:10-05:00September 26th, 2017|Categories: Author Interview, New Releases, Publishing People|Tags: asexual, Black, Intersectionality, PoC|

Alice had her whole summer planned. Non-stop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV show. The only thing missing from her plan? Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice told her she's asexual). Alice is done with dating—no thank you, do not pass go, stick a fork in her, done. But when Alice meets Takumi and she can’t stop thinking about him or the rom com-grade romance feels she did not ask for, her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn. Claire Kann is the author of the forthcoming novel Let’s Talk About Love, which comes out January 23, [...]

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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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The Queer, Enchanted Girls
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The Queer, Enchanted Girls

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The Queer, Enchanted Girls

By Ariel|2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 20th, 2017|Categories: Author Guest Blog, Guest Blogs, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: Bisexual, Intersectionality, Latinx, PoC, Queer Girls, Speculative|

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 8 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Anna-Marie McLemore I love fairy tales. I love them so much that even when I don’t mean them to, they find their way into my stories. But my third book, Wild Beauty (October 3), may be the story I’ve written so far that looks, from the outside, most like a fairy tale. It’s a book of secrets, pretty dresses, and magical gardens. It’s the story of a generation of cousins who are both haunted by their family’s legacy and enchanted by their own fierce hearts. It’s also [...]

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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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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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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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