December 2011
38 posts
2011 in Photos →
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
niyakin-deactivated20111229 asked: Yay! I <3ed both Ash and Huntress~ Following finishing Ash I thought, I bet that Aisling participates in the hunts with Kaisa and the prince. I wondered if, after time had passed, if he'd ever learn that it was her he met at the ball. I thought, even if he did that they might end up laughing about it, given the way they'd probably relate by then. Is that a question? I don't...
bfuniversity asked: What are your thoughts on the kiss issue between Brittany and Santana on Glee?
I've turned on the ASK! →
So, er, have any questions for me?
1 tag
A Year of Thinking About Diversity →
When Cindy Pon and I first talked about launching Diversity in YA, I was motivated by a desire to bring attention to books about non-white and/or non-straight characters in a positive way. I did not want to box these books in as problem novels, as many of them have been positioned over the years (recognizing that the term “problem novel” itself is problematic). I also didn’t want Diversity...
1 tag
1 tag
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
1 tag
“We aren’t secret. We’re private.”
– Denis Healey on the Bilderberg Group, quoted in Them: Adventures With Extremists, by Jon Ronson
Top 10 Favorite Things of 2011 →
December isn’t over yet, but I’m going to get a jump on all those other year-end best-of lists and post mine now. Here are my top 10 favorite things of 2011, from books to TV shows to websites, counting down from 10 to 1.
Ash is on sale!
For a limited time, my first novel Ash is on sale as an ebook for $2.99! Get it for:
Amazon’s Kindle
Barnes & Noble’s Nook
Apple’s iBookstore
Google eBooks
Want a sample first? You can download samples from those retailers, you can read Chapter 1 here on my website, or you can read a different excerpt from the book here at the Lavender Review.
Happy holidays!
1 tag
Fail Better: After Recent Occupy Evictions, Jack... →
“What the L Word must repudiate in order to represent “lesbian” as “successful” is the butch. The butch therefore gets cast as anachronistic, as the failure of femininity, as an earlier, melancholic model of queerness that has now been updated and transformed into “desirable” womanhood. The butch lesbian indeed is not only a failure within contemporary queer renderings of desire, she ...
1 tag
“When scientific theory says something’s wrong with so many people, perhaps...”
– Joan Roughgarden, Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
1 tag
“We live in a world of false certainties: Whether we are discussing politics,...”
– Steve Volk, Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable—And Couldn’t
In which I answer a reader's email →
” … why did you decide to spin the tale into a story involving homosexuality? The well-known tale of Cinderella is one whose format and story line thrives from the need of a heterosexual relationship- a strong male character to “save the day.”
1 tag
“The central question — central for the survival and well-being of our world — is...”
– The Dalai Lama, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality
Ms. Snarker Regrets: Heather Hogan knows her shit →
dorothy-snarker:
“It’s rad that Finn wants Santana to feel free to be her unicorn-loving self. It’s cool that he knows how sometimes people turn their aggression inward when they’re so full of anger. But come on, man. He feels sorry for her? HE FEELS SORRY FOR HER? That’s condescending to a face-punching degree….