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Seven Shimmering LGBTQ YA Novels to Illuminate Winter Nights
Author: Todd Wellman December 6, 2021 The Sun bobs along lower in the winter sky than any other, granting us the longest reading nights of the year. Nice for us, the moon’s gallery keeps evolving as fiery works appear. Let’s make sure to keep pointing them out to our friends. Together, we celebrate new stars appearing in the constellations of inclusive literature. December The first bright light is Isabel Sterling’s paranormal romance, The Coldest Touch.
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Back to School the World: Eight Queer Young Adult Books Coming this Fall
Folks, have you too heard someone say they can’t wait to “go back to normal” after the pandemic? Well, if normal means “heterosexual & cisgender” let’s agree to not want that, OK? We’re still coming up in environments that promote these norms, consciously or not. Instead, let’s embrace the expanded senses of normal that this pile of back-to-school titles predict.
Back to School the World: Eight Queer Young Adult Books Coming this Fall
Author: Todd Wellman September 2, 2021 Folks, have you too heard someone say they can’t wait to “go back to normal” after the pandemic? Well, if normal means “heterosexual & cisgender” let’s agree to not want that, OK? We’re still coming up in environments that promote these norms, consciously or not. Instead, let’s embrace the expanded senses of normal that this pile of back-to-school titles predict.
Read These! Fourteen Queer Young Adult Books Coming This Spring
Thank Buddha more daylight is a promise we can count on soon — and along with it, queer young adult literature budding across rejuvenating fields. Let’s admire fourteen lovely spring blossoms for you to lay a blanket near to take in fragrant plots and ambrosial characters.
Malinda Lo on Writing a Coming-of-Age Love Story
Author: Todd Wellman December 23, 2020 In Malinda Lo’s forthcoming Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Dutton Books for Young Readers, January 2020), protagonist Lily Hu feels the challenging pull to act on her nature. Lily, a young Chinese American girl living in 1950s San Francisco, realizes that her love for another girl might endanger an already fragile defense against the deportation of her father.
Hannah Abigail Clarke Wants More Unabashedly Queer Narratives
When writer and Lambda Literary fellow Hannah Abigail Clarke calls themselves terribly handsome, you cheer. On others, it would chip away faster than cheap nails to reveal braggadocio, but such forthrightness from Clarke is wrapped up–warm, folded-croissant style–in all of their essences of being, ably punching through the historical tightness of who may use a term like ‘handsome’. You experience Clarke, you necessarily celebrate.
6 Forthcoming Queer YA Books to Add to Your TBR Pile
Author: Todd Wellman October 17, 2020 Salivate with me, if you will, over the wonderful buffet of forthcoming 2021 queer YA books. Let’s imagine how we’ll order the following six titles from Bookshop or our favorite indie stores to stack them up on our proverbial sideboards.
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