This week we’re looking at QUILTBAG books with a female-identifying focus, those that are lesbian, bisexual, female-identifying trans, asexual. To kick off the week, I’ve pulled together a list of films focused on QUILTBAG issues focused on those with female characters/issues. What I found was that the same thing which plagues middle grade and YA books […]
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GenreQueery is Up!
I’m SO proud to announce that Genre (Queer)y, the Tumblr blog that I’m co-writing with Katelyn Browne, is up and live! OUR MISSION: WHAT IS GENREQUEERY? GenreQueery is an extension of “GenreQueer: Exploding the Closet,” a panel from YALSA’s YA Lit Symposium in November 2014. Librarians Christie Gibrich and Katelyn Browne moderated a discussion […]
Genrequeer Presentation Handouts
If you are in Austin for the YALSA YA Literature Symposium, I hope that you are having as much fun as I am- the panels that I have been to have been inspiring! Today, I have started out by speaking with Katelyn Browne, Malinda Lo (Ash, Adaption), Robin Talley (Lies We Tell Ourselves), Kristen […]
GenreQueer: Consider This
Along with the wonderful and brilliant Katelyn Browne, Malinda Lo (Ash, Adaption), Robin Talley (Lies We Tell Ourselves), Kristen Elizabeth Clark (Freakboy), I am speaking on Sunday at the YALSA Young Adult Literature Symposium. How I got to be up there with all these awesome people I’m not sure, but I get to bask […]
When The Best List Is Wrong
So I’ve been mulling over this article for a while. If you haven’t seen it, it’s called The Top Ten LGBT Characters in Young Adult Literature, written by Madison Gallup in Entertainment Monthly, for Emerson College. It was published on October 20th, and has been popping up in a couple of places that I’m familiar […]
GLBT-RT Call for Committee Volunteers
Have an interest in GLBTQI/ Quiltbag books for youth and teens? Are you a member of the American Library Association or can be? Are you a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bixsexual and Transgender Round Table or can be? Then consider volunteering to be a part of either the Rainbow Project or the Stonewall Youth […]