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Queer Nostalgia and LGBT Young Adult Fiction

3/13/2017

 
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Image: Hannah Burton/Bustle 
I've just had a piece published in Bustle on the queer nostalgia of reading LGBTQ+ YA fiction as an adult. Check it out if you, like me, were a teen of the 90s and if you love reading LGBTQ+ YA and discovering new books as well as reminiscing about old favourites. Remember Judy Blume and Sweet Valley High? Yep, they get a mention.

The article can be found HERE.

Queerbaiting and Heteronormativity in Television

3/10/2017

 
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Queerbaiting is a complicated topic with nuances which take some significant space to grapple with in detail. There are concerns with linking shipping with LGBTQ+ activism, complexities around drawing a distinction between queerbaiting and homoerotic subtext, discourse around why certain pairings become such fandom behemoths and arguments which suggest investment in shipping those characters pushes shows with plenty of LGBTQ+ visibility to the margins. Then of course there's the issue of ace erasure and a desire for more platonic male intimacy in pop culture in general.

Despite these complexities I attempt to reframe the debate in this short piece for The Mary Sue, with reference to a simple bugbear of mine. Why does desire for romantic endgames for same-sex pairings get side-eyed, when the same is rarely true when people hope for a romantic culmination to the story arcs of an opposite sex pairing? What does assumed heterosexuality of mainstream television characters and arguments which insist a character is 'straight' tell us about a general lack of LGBTQ+ diversity in television, bierasure and heteronormativity in the mainstream?

​The article can be found HERE.


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