Let's Talk About Sex in YA: IJYAL Special Section
We are so excited to announce that our special section is now available in Issue 3 of the International Journal of Young Adult...
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THE BLOG
Here, delegates and others working on the topic of sex in YA literature present their ideas and research. This helps us stay connected after the conference and keep everyone updated on all things #YASexy!
If you are a scholar, librarian, educator, student, etc. working on the topic of sex in YA literature and would like to write a blog post, please sign up here.
- Jul 13, 2021
- 4 min
BIRTHING THE NATION: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS IN IRISH DYSTOPIAN YA FICTION
During the 2010s, dystopian fiction found renewed popularity within YA literature YA dystopia often features teenage girls at the...
- Jul 6, 2021
- 4 min
MENTAL ILLNESS, SEXUALITY, AND POWER IN MICHAEL THOMAS FORD'S SUICIDE NOTES
In her book Fictions of Adolescent Carnality, Lydia Kokkola observes that the format of the problem novel instigates the trope of the...
- Jun 15, 2021
- 4 min
EXPLORING GENDER AND IDENTITY IN CHILDREN'S PICTUREBOOKS IN INDIA
How do you define who you are? Do children have the agency as well as the freedom to define their gender and identity? Are they...
- Jun 1, 2021
- 4 min
"I'M NOT THAT INNOCENT": SEXUAL DESIRE AND AUTISM IN YA NOVELS
I started my research on the representation of neurodiversity and autism in children’s and YA literatures a couple of years ago. Like...
- May 25, 2021
- 4 min
MENTAL HEALTH, SEXUALITY, AND SOCIAL CULPABILITY IN THE YA NOVELS OF HIMANJALI SANKAR
When the Supreme Court of India overturned the Delhi High Court verdict decriminalising homosexuality, several of the country’s leading...
- May 18, 2021
- 4 min
SEXUAL IDENTITY IN NINA LACOUR’S WE ARE OKAY
Nina Lacour’s We Are Okay was the 2018 winner of the Michael L. Printz Award, an annual award promoted by the American Library...
- May 4, 2021
- 4 min
Dutch Directness & Consent in YA
We the Dutch have a … not necessarily flattering reputation of being, euphemistically, direct in our communication. For those who are not...
- Apr 27, 2021
- 4 min
SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN YA LITERATURE OF ATROCITY
Content warning: as the title makes clear, this blog post contains discussions of scenes of sexual abuse. Sexual violence is a difficult...
- Apr 13, 2021
- 6 min
RESEARCHING-IN-PLACE OR ISOLATION TO-DOS: SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE HOWS AND WHYS OF PANDEMIC PROCESS
On 13 March 2020 my partner and I began sheltering-in-place in Manhattan with nearly 2 million other people on an island of 22.82 square...
- Apr 6, 2021
- 3 min
"THAT'S THE GOOD STUFF" - TALKING SEX WITH GIRL READERS
I recently conducted a series of focus groups with girl readers at a secondary school in Melbourne, Australia, as part of my PhD project....
- Mar 28, 2021
- 4 min
AIDAN CHAMBERS' BREAKTIME: PLATONIC SEX AND LUSTFUL LOVE
“I’m not going to say I love you or anything of that sort,” sixteen-year-old Ditto says to Helen, after whom he lusts without actually...
- Mar 23, 2021
- 5 min
SEARCHING FOR MISSING SEXUALITIES
It is an honour to open the conference blog with a guest post from Dr Lydia Kokkola, in advance of her keynote lecture Desiring Bodies:...
- Feb 26, 2021
- 1 min
Let's Talk About Sex in YA @ Cambridge - We're going online!
Dear delegates and anyone interested in the topic of our conference, We are so happy that we are able to move this event online. We have...
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