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3 On A YA Theme: Intersex Teens

Looking for a YA book with an intersex character? Here are three titles.

Women Aren’t Aliens (and Other Thoughts on the Andrew Smith Controversy)

This post examines a controversy about how YA author Andrew Smith depicts women in his books.

The Panels 2015 Read Harder Challenge

Read harder: comic book edition.

Women in Fiction Need More Than The Bechdel Test

Most are familiar with the Bechdel Test, named after Alison Bechdel. A work “passes” the test if it features at ...

My Kryptonite: Making Fun of Wolverine

Wolverine is one of Marvel’s most popular and enduring comic book superheroes, the centerpiece of all but one of the ...

We Need Bigger Megaphones for Diversity in Kid Lit

Last week, BookCon announced their event’s lineup of blockbuster kid lit panelists. Jeff Kinney, James Patterson, Rick Riordan, and Lemony ...

The Ladies Have Always Kicked Ass: Why We Talk About Gender, Books, and Criticism

Last week’s release of the annual VIDA count highlighted yet again that the influential review world favors male authors and ...

The Year I Read (Almost) No Men

Like many others here at the Riot, I’ll be diversifying my reading in 2014. Looking at my Goodreads stats revealed ...

Romance and the Problems with “By Women, For Women, About Women”

Why describing romance novels as the only books by, for, and about women is problematic.

Books for Boys and Books for Girls: Problems with Gendered Reading

We can be our own worst enemies when it comes to teaching kids how to love reading. We tell boys ...