Results for: be the change
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11 Queer Romance + YA Comfort Reads I Revisit on Bad Days
When I find myself needing comfort from the atrocities of being an adult, these are the books I usually turn to.
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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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Leah Johnson’s Middle Grade Debut Will Take You Right Back to Seventh Grade
Ellie Engle Saves Herself isn’t solely for children. If you’ve ever found yourself on a journey of self understanding, you will see yourself in Ellie.
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Hayley Kiyoko’s Debut YA Novel Tells Queer Love Story Set in 2006
If I’m being honest, it’s one of the better written celebrity fiction novels that I’ve read (and I’ve read Lauren Conrad’s YA series).
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In Lesbian YA Debut, Teen Girls Find Love in the Midst of an Asteroid Barreling Toward Earth
The biggest theme in Jen St. Jude’s If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come is mental health.
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This New Queer YA Book Is for the Sports Gays AND the Newspaper Nerds
If you’re looking for a fun frenemies-to-lovers story, this is it.
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Author Melanie Bell on her YA Novel “Chasing Harmony” and the Messy Process of Growing Up Queer
“The people I met who were identified as musical prodigies had long journeys involving conflict between their abilities and personal needs and finding who they were beyond the weight of expectations. When I was younger, successes and failures felt huge, and this is the case for Anna too.”
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Malinda Lo’s New Coming-of-Age Queer Novel “A Scatter of Light” Shines Brilliantly
Lo’s newest offering is beautifully composed, often feeling like a peek into your best friend’s hot (queer) girl summer.
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Malinda Lo on Her Historic National Book Award Win and Lesbian Literature’s History and Future
Malinda Lo talks about writing queerness in different genres, butch/femme dynamics in literature, and the gay Macy’s of the 1960s that didn’t make it into her book.