{"id":1454,"date":"2010-02-03T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:32:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:32:30","slug":"smart-people-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1454","title":{"rendered":"Smart People Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Glasgow<\/a>Psst!
Don’t miss this month’s What A Girl Wants<\/i>#11: Feminist is not a Dirty Word<\/a>. Do today’s young adults recognize feminism as an ideological concept? Is it reflected in young adult literature? Is it a positive, or an old-school thing that needs to fade? The brilliant young adult authors who discuss this have a lot of intelligent and surprising things to say. Check it out.<\/p>\n

28 Days Later:<\/b> twenty-eight of the best and brightest in youth literature in the African American community, going on right now at The Brown Bookshelf.<\/a> Today, our girl Kekla is up<\/a>. Woot!<\/p>\n

Bookslut<\/a> looks back at the recent episodes of whitewashing<\/a> with children’s book covers (and no one mentions Liar by name, and yet, there it is) and interviews authors as to their take on what happened and why. Full disclosure: I have the last word, amusingly enough.<\/p>\n

So, You Want To Write About Sex?<\/b> Of course you do. And now that I have your attention, check out the article in this week’s Hunger Mountain, which is the Vermont College of Fine Arts<\/a> online journal of the arts. They have a whole bunch of essays in YA and children’s lit<\/a> including that sex<\/a> thing. What I really love is the fiction included in each edition. Some good stuff.<\/p>\n

If you haven’t joined the Sesyle Joslin Hine fan club on Facebook<\/a>, you should.<\/p>\n

Also: does anyone else think this unicorn\/dragon thing is disturbing? They’re everywhere here, but I hadn’t taken the time to look closely at their haunches… which end in claws. And their horribly weird necks. *shudder* Monsters amongst us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psst!Don’t miss this month’s What A Girl Wants#11: Feminist is not a Dirty Word. Do today’s young adults recognize feminism as an ideological concept?…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5990,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}