![]() ![]() ![]() Malinda Lo has a great piece on the struggles of F/F versus M/M as a reader and a writer, with the most recent statistics about representation of queer women specifically in YA fiction. ![]() Queer women are still in a bit of a deficit compared to men, and it’s only recently that nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people are front and center in the young adult world. In recent years, there has been a lot of movement for queer YA narratives in publishing. Before young adult was even a viable publishing category, the history of queer literature was under attack from people determined to erase the existence of queer narratives. Hinton would have a problem with that interpretation. Although I can read the tenderness of the boys in The Outsiders through a queer lens, S.E. Though there are many novels with characters historically interpreted as queer, panic and pearl-clutching about introducing children to gay thoughts has meant we’ve had a slow start to building a queer YA classics canon. Classic queer young adult novels are something of a more recent phenomenon. ![]()
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