I See What You Did There: YA Bashing As An Excuse For Teen Bashing
I love YA. As we all know. I read a ton of it, I love interacting with YA authors, I love YA readers. I think it’s a fantastic genre with tons of potential and my favourite books right now are all YA....
View ArticleMy Grandma Can Code Circles Around Your Dudebro
I am far from the first, or the last, person to talk about this, but, seriously, can we knock it off with the ‘hahaha grandmas using computers?’ jokes? Like, seriously? See also ‘hahaha moms using...
View ArticleYes, Teens Have Personalities! And Everything!
Why is it that people seem genuinely surprised when teens provide evidence of the fact that they have personalities, and causes, and taste, and things they believe in? People goggle as though they’ve...
View ArticleWhy the Pushback on YA?
Every other week, it seems, I’m reading an article attacking young adult literature. It’s trashy, it’s too dark, it’s not dark enough, it’s juvenile, it’s too sexy, it focuses too much on girls…the...
View ArticleWhat’s So Funny/Gross About Elder Sexuality?
Do you ever feel not just like bad things come in threes, but that references come in clumps? For the last few weeks, I feel like I’ve been inundated in references to older adults having sex, usually...
View ArticleTeens are changing language and you’re just going to have to deal
Kids these days, getting all over English’s lawn, just like…generations of teens before them. English is a constantly and fascinatingly evolving language, but somehow older generations seem continually...
View ArticleCan we stop trashing teens for making fanworks yet?
Fanworks in general continue to be one of the most despised and sneered at forms of creative expression, despite their huge diversity and depth of creativity. Some mainstream creators hate them and...
View ArticleBad behaviour: Authors versus teen reviewers
We’re all subject to criticism, and the larger our profiles, the louder, more distributed, and more intense the criticism tends to be. Authors certainly endure their share of bad reviews, and have a...
View ArticleKeeping Younger Workers Out of the Workplace
The sharp rise in youth unemployment that has accompanied the financial crisis has been a topic of much discussion and debate. Younger workers, or young people who want to be working, have a lot to...
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