A podcast about young adult lit and what it can teach us at any age. Join us as we review new releases, revisit old classics, bring you hot lists, hotter casting choices, and more!
This week is full of new stuff! We have a new host, Eunice Hong, and our first review of an upcoming release! We talk about the role of tropes in comfort reading, what makes an author an “automatic buy,” and how the YA landscape has improved since our highschool days.
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This week, we’re talking about one of our favourite fantasy books to date. We get into different approaches to worldbuilding, and have a long conversation about the impact of the fantasy brothel trope on conversations about sex work.
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In our final Anne of Green April episode, we take on a book written twenty years after Anne of Green Gables. We talk about lesbians, fashion-forward fan fiction, lesbians, letter writing, lesbians, saviour complexes, and lesbians.
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This week our Anne series continues, with Anne going to college and falling in love. We talk about what distinguishes this series as a turn of the century work and the ways growing up makes us revise and reconsider our expectations. We also revisit our discussion of Anne… what happens when she’s not the quirkiest girl in the room?
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In our second installation of Anne of Green April, Kadi warms up to Anne a little, we talk about approaches to child care, make our predictions for the series, and talk about what makes YA, YA. Also, is Anne a Manic Pixie Dream Girl?!
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We’re reading through the first four Anne of Green Gables books! Join us for a fresh take through totally virgin eyes, and passionate analysis from a long time fan! Help us decide… just how queer IS this book?
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After almost 5 wild and wonderful years, the YA Podcast is coming to an end. Join Kadi, Teffer, and Bailey as we reminisce over the years, the books, and the friendships we’ve shared. Stay in touch!
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We’re coming at you with another media review! Kadi and Teffer watched Season 1 of the Vampire Diaries and we’re here to tell you all about low cut jeans, sexy vampire brothers, and racist small towns.
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Kadi and Teffer talk about art, light, gayness, coming out, coming of age, and queer community in this breathtaking novel by Malinda Lo.
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