Results for: queer parenting
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YA Favorite Jennifer Dugan’s Queer Thriller Debut Is a Lesson in Trauma
The Last Girls Standing gave me big Yellowjackets vibes.
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Tess Sharpe’s New Queer YA Novel Will Have You Chanting “Kiss, Kiss, Kiss!”
As someone who grew up in a rural place, I really appreciated how authentically rural this novel felt.
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A Sweet Sixteen Becomes a Coming Out Party in Queer YA Novel “Friday I’m in Love”
The scene where Mahalia — the Black queer teen at the center of Camryn Garrett’s new novel — comes out to her mom is painful but honest.
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This YA Book Is a Great Queer Second-Chance Romance
What would you do if the one person you loved the most was the one person you cannot remember?
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KaeLyn Rich’s “Girls Resist!” Is a Guidebook for Intersectional Feminist Superheroes
“It’s the urgency of being a girl, in the broadest sense of that admittedly binary term, of being a marginalized person and knowing in your heart that you have the power to change your world.”
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Disney’s “Hocus Pocus” Sequel Is a Teenage Lesbian Love Story!
Disney has retold their most famous Halloween story with a trio that’s comprised of two people of color, one of whom is queer; and the queer daughter of Max and Allison. It’s silly and spooky, and it’s an unabashed love story.
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Read A F*cking Book: M-E Girard’s Novel “Girl Mans Up” Powerfully Explores Minefields of Gender
“Girard’s writing is special in the way it speaks the language of our lived experience of moving through and within gender — inching, painfully slow, changeable, delightful, sexy, and made manifest in a thousand tiny ways, often between people and between words, unspoken.”
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Were We Ever So Young: Revisiting “Empress of the World”
The names of the main characters, Nic and Battle, were gender neutral enough that I projected heterosexuality onto them, not yet knowing that gay YA lit was something even there to be looked for.