Friday Links Don’t Have Enough Lesbians In Them.
One of the two headline stories of our recent Galactic Suburbia Episode 42 was the piece on Publisher’s Weekly about two authors who were upset about an agent asking them to ‘straighten’ a gay...
View ArticleFriday Links has a Talking Cat
I’ve been hunting for a new addictive, fluffy manga series since Fruits Basket came to an end, and this article about the new translations and releases of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and Codename...
View ArticleFriday Links Has a Foot in Each World
Tor.com tells you why you should be watching Fringe in a very non-spoilery-for-the-last-three-seasons way. Alisa and I discussed Olivia and her FBI competence in the recent Galactic Suburbia episode....
View ArticleFriday Links in Black and White
Any chance of catching up with all my blog reading this week was heartily delayed by my discovery of awesome Doctor Who rewatch blog The Wife in Space in which a diehard Doctor Who fan talks his wife...
View ArticleBeauty Queens, by Libba Bray
This book has just gone straight to the top of the list of books I hope my daughters will steal from my shelves a year or two before I would have thought they were ready for them. Imagine a gang of...
View ArticleSnapshot 2012: Kate Gordon
Kate Gordon is a Tasmanian YA author and a very VERY new mum. Check out her blog at www.kategordon.com.au/ 1. Vulpi, sequel to Thyla, your paranormal-YA-with-weretigers-and-devils has just been...
View ArticleWhere the Wonder Women Are #31 Nico Minoru & the Runaways
Consider this Runaways Week in the Where the Wonder Women Are Universe! Just when I thought I understood comics, and the Marvel Universe in particular, Runaways came along to shake up my perceptions....
View ArticleWhere the Wonder Women Are #32: Karolina Dean of the Runaways
So you think your teen years were tough. Karolina is an alien AND a lesbian. When she and her fellow Runaways discover that their parents are all evil, she has rather more to take in than the rest of...
View ArticleLast Chance for Kaleidoscope Pledges!
It’s down to the last few days of the Kaleidoscope Pozible campaign, for a book of contemporary YA fantasy (and a dash of science fiction) with diverse protagonists, edited by Alisa Krasnostein of...
View Articlepeople actually concerned about sexism do not go around saying that women...
Look at me, raising my head up in the internet. Hello, internet! I’m a lot of words this month! I haven’t been doing my usual Friday Links while Nanoing, but there are a couple of things I wanted to...
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