August 2012
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autostraddle is amazing →
gameboygirl asked: Heya! I saw you in the "queer teen lit" tag. I like "why this blog" post - it brings up a bunch of queer teen lit issues. I run the fyeahqueerteenlit tumblr - it lists all the queer teen lit books I've been able to find, focusing mainly on recent books. Anyways, I hope you don't give up on updating - your reviews are great.
May 2012
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I am J
I am J, by Chris Beam, is one of the few pieces of YA teen fiction that I have ever read that deals with trans/gender-queer issues. In an honest, unabashed way, the novel tells the story of J, who was assigned to the gender female at birth. The narrative refers to J with male pronouns, and when people call J by female pronouns in the story, it is jarring. Quite simply, Beam writes J as a boy, not...
Words of wisdom from Malinda Lo →
Guys, I wrote an email to Malinda Lo, a YA author whose work features queer protagonists, a few months ago, and I just received an email response with a link to a lengthy response on her blog. I think you guys will appreciate it, so I’m sharing it here.
March 2012
2 posts
Y'all will probably be interested in these... →
February 2012
2 posts
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Keeping You a Secret
Keeping You a Secret by Julie Anne Peters was the first book about a queer teenager that I ever read. It’s a quick read, only 250 pages long. I finished it in about four hours, but I thought about it long after.
We begin by meeting our protagonist, Holland Jaeger, a motivated high school senior taking a tremendously difficult course-load. She has a boyfriend with whom she has mediocre...
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why this blog?
This blog exists to list and review books about queer teenagers, for the reading pleasure of LGBTQIA identified and straight folks alike. I have compiled a list of reasons why I think this blog, and other efforts like it, are important.
Because there aren’t enough books about people like us.
Because queer YA lit is a very specific genre composed mostly of a few set archetypes. We’ve...
