Literature

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Trauma or Tragedy: Disability Representation in Children’s Books Has a Long Way to Go

A child reads a book.
by Alaina Leary
July 21, 2020 at 12:22pm
It isn’t easy to find a children’s book or young adult novel that accurately depicts disability.
Edward, a very white vampire, leans down to Bella as he saves her from being hit by a car.

More Than Nostalgia: “Twilight” Lovers Are Cautiously Optimistic about “Midnight Sun”

by Rachel Charlene Lewis
May 7, 2020 at 2:50pm
Twilight is not a perfect series. Read more »
Andrea Gibson sits on a stoop

Andrea Gibson’s “Lord of the Butterflies” Celebrates Constant Transformation

by Elizabeth Hoover
December 27, 2018 at 2:43pm
In their fifth collection of poetry, Lord of the Butterflies, Andrea Gibson resists tidy narratives in favor of dramatizing a life that’s vibrant with constant transformation. Read more »
My Favorite Thing is Monsters Emil Ferris

Bitch in a Box: Creepy Holidays

by Dahlia Balcazar
December 18, 2018 at 9:00am
These picks will satisfy everyone on your list who is more “strange and unusual” than “holly and jolly.” Read more »
a side-by-side black and white photo of a man wearing a sailor cap and a man with brown short hair

20th Century Boy: In the 1930s, the Word “Transsexual” Didn't Exist in the English Language. So Laura Dillon Had to Label Herself.

by Pagan Kennedy
November 20, 2018 at 9:57am
No literature at all existed to guide those female-bodied people who wished to become men. Read more »
a white woman with shoulder-length blonde hair and red lipstick wearing a black t-shirt

Dear Lane: “How To Be Alone” is Vulnerable, Funny, and Profoundly Healing

by Joshunda Sanders
November 5, 2018 at 2:28pm
How To Be Alone gave me closure for trauma. Read more »
collage of Soraya Chemaly, Reema Zaman, and Gemma Hartley on multi-colored blue and purple background

Turning Fury Into Fuel: Three Women Authors on Publishing’s New Investment in Anger

by Evette Dionne
October 26, 2018 at 10:30am
Infiltrating the toxic architecture, learning and exposing its mechanics, cutting the wires, and burning it all down is my type of Trojan Horse chess play—being strategic and precise, turning fury into fortitude. Read more »
multi colored collage of woman's hands typing on laptop with man's hand pointing towards her

Political Revisioning: How Men Police Women’s Anger in Writing Workshops

by Jen Corrigan
October 22, 2018 at 11:00am
Our bodies and the way we are visibly coded determines if our anger can be “justified” in the eyes of the viewer. Read more »
Donna Zuckerberg

Et Tu, Brutes: Donna Zuckerberg on How Misogyny Red-Pilled the Classics

by Dahlia Balcazar
October 8, 2018 at 3:14pm
When the Red Pillers—online communities of far-right, anti-feminist men—need to back up their misogynist and racist claims, they look to Ovid, Euripides, or the Stoics. Read more »
Crazy Rich Asians

2018 Was the Summer of the Asian Beach Read

by Soleil Ho
August 16, 2018 at 2:42pm
Having access to the “beach read” label feels like acceptance—the ability to reach audiences who might see our work as a source of pleasure instead of education. Read more »
Rosamund Pike staring creepily into the camera in Gone Girl

Girl on a Sexist Bandwagon: The Consequences of Publishing’s “Gone Girl” Craze

by s.e. smith
August 15, 2018 at 2:54pm
In these books, certain women are allowed to be messy, make mistakes, and commit heinous crimes while also being presented as anti-heroines who are simply ensnared in systems larger than themselves. Read more »

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