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: KJ (owlmoose) wrote,
2011-09-15 15:58:00

KJ
owlmoose
2011-09-15 15:58:00

Gay YA literature and the wrath of the Internets

I had thoughts on the article about the agent who asked two authors to de-gay their YA novel (a story which has now come under dispute by the agent in question; my thoughts on the resulting pushback are best summed up in this tweet by Scott Westerfeld, but I digress). It turns out that

renay also had thoughts, and we bounced those thoughts around and off each other, and we posted the results over on

ladybusiness:

http://ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/15574.html

Your thoughts on our thoughts welcome!

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comments on DW.

Tags: books, civil rights, feminism, friends, someone is wrong on the internet

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