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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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Interview: Anna-Marie McLemore, author of When The Moon Was Ours

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:30-05:00October 3rd, 2016|Categories: Archive, Author Interview, Book Club, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: Latinx, Magical Realism, PoC, Speculative, Trans|

When I (Vee) was at BEA this Summer, I had the marvelous opportunity to meet and interview Anna-Marie McLemore. We had been chatting about trans & queer YA for a few months on Twitter, so it was LOVELY to be able to meet her in person. Her book When the Moon Was Ours (which is releasing tomorrow!!), is SO amazing ya'll. AND it's our #GayYABookClub read this month, so I have the perfect excuse to make you all read it immediately. :D When the Moon Was Ours follows two characters through a story that has multicultural elements and [...]

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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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