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#PreOrderHurricaneChild Campaign

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:08-05:00March 17th, 2018|Categories: Book Club, New Releases|Tags: Black, Middle Grade, nonbinary, Queer Girls|

We are so excited to announce our first ever pre-order campaign, for HURRICANE CHILD by Kheryn Callender. There is very, very little LGBTQIAP+ representation in Middle Grade books. I can list maybe seven books of the top of my head, and could find a few more through research. If I tried to list Middle Grade books about queer kids of color, that list would trickle down to almost zero. YA Pride believes that LGBTQIAP+ representation in Middle Grade is just as important, if not more important, than it is in Young Adult. Sometimes Young Adult gets to readers [...]

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Book Review: INKMISTRESS by Audrey Coulthurst

By Vee|2020-03-28T13:40:08-05:00March 13th, 2018|Categories: Book Club, Book Review|Tags: Bisexual, Fantasy, New Releases, Queer Girls|

Asra is a demigod with a dangerous gift: the ability to dictate the future by writing with her blood. To keep her power secret, she leads a quiet life as a healer on a remote mountain, content to help the people in her care and spend time with Ina, the mortal girl she loves. But Asra’s peaceful life is upended when bandits threaten Ina’s village and the king does nothing to help. Desperate to protect her people, Ina begs Asra for assistance in finding her manifest—the animal she’ll be able to change into as her [...]

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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: Tillie Walden, author of SPINNING

By Daisy|2020-03-28T13:40:09-05:00November 11th, 2017|Categories: Author Interview|Tags: Coming Out, graphic novel, lesbian, Queer Girls, Realistic|

Jen Wang, author of the upcoming graphic novel The Prince and the Dressmaker, interviews Tilly Walden, author of Spinning, an autobiographical graphic novel about growing up and coming out. Tillie Walden First of all Tillie, I wanted to say Spinning is so fantastic. Reading it felt so intimate, I kept flashing back to my own teenage memories. So much about being a teenager is about learning what you do or don’t have control over. You started skating before you were old enough to know what you wanted and later as a teenager you took up art. In both [...]

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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 Power of Stories: Saving Lives and Connecting Readers, One Book at a Time
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The Power of Stories: Saving Lives and Connecting Readers, One Book at a Time

Author Guest Blog, Guest Blogs, New Releases, Writers on Writing

The Power of Stories: Saving Lives and Connecting Readers, One Book at a Time

By Ariel|2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 22nd, 2017|Categories: Author Guest Blog, Guest Blogs, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: Black, Middle Grade, nonbinary, PoC, Queer Girls|

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 10 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Kheryn Callender I didn't like myself very much when I was younger. I was the only black student in my private school for a few years, and whenever I left my school, which was deep in the countryside where many white people from the states lived, I was surrounded by locals from St. Thomas who thought I acted too snobby, who thought I spoke with a stateside accent because I didn’t love my island, who thought I acted too “white.” It seemed wherever I went, whichever community [...]

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“That Which Does Not Kill Us”

By Ariel|2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 21st, 2017|Categories: Author Guest Blog, Guest Blogs|Tags: Black, PoC, Queer Girls|

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 9 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by L.D. Lewis It’s 2017 and the world is on fire. Whatever day it is you’re reading this, you probably woke up lost and groaning. Maybe while staring at the ceiling or at nothing in particular in the mirror, you idly pondered what sort of distant, existential crisis would manifest itself in a very real threat to your being today and if/how you would react to it. Survive it. After all, yesterday [wasn’t so bad/was utter trash]. How much should you reasonably be expected to endure? Disclaimer: I [...]

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The Queer, Enchanted Girls
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The Queer, Enchanted Girls

Author Guest Blog, Guest Blogs, New Releases, Writers on Writing

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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You Do Not Have to Be Good

By Ariel|2020-03-28T13:40:11-05:00June 9th, 2017|Categories: Archive, Author Guest Blog, Guest Blogs, New Releases, Writers on Writing|Tags: Bisexual, Queer Girls|

Pride Month Blogathon: Day 3 – Introduction to Pride Month Blogathon by Rebecca Podos You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild [...]

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