Academia
From Painters to Pirates: A Study of Non-binary Protagonists in Young Adult Fiction
Let’s Talk About Love, Tash Hearts Tolstoy, and the Asexual Coming-of-Age Story
Playing with Genre and Queer Narrative in the Novels of Malinda Lo
Queer Allegory and Queer Actuality in Every Heart a Doorway
The Butterfly Effect: Player Agency and Trope Subversion in Life is Strange and Until Dawn
Anime Feminist
Adding Salt to Sweet Vanilla: The Complex Women of ToraDora!
Convenient Monsters: The Problem with Frill and Wonder Egg Priority‘s Take on Trauma
Escape From Yuri Hell: Flip Flappers‘ Critique of the Class S Genre
Escapism and Healing in Recovery of an MMO Junkie
Genderless Gemstones: The Pros and Cons of Land of the Lustrous as Non-binary Representation
Going Beyond Severance: Metaphorical and Literal Queerness in Yurikuma Arashi
Not “Just a Phase”: How Bloom Into You Challenges Common Yuri Tropes
Pop Team Epic and the Value of Letting Girls Be Absurd
The Orbital Children‘s Rejection of Ecofascist Ideas
Rewriting the Script: Revue Starlight‘s Rejection of Tragic Queer Tropes
The Gloriously Goofy, Geeky Girls of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
The Problem with the Dark Magical Girl Genre
Worldbuilding a Queer Paradise in My Next Life as a Villainess
Anime Herald
Heaven’s Design Team: A Celestial Celebration of the Creative Process
The Unwavering Optimism of The Aquatope on White Sand
Together, Alone: How Laid-Back Camp Shows Companionship Through Technology
AZE
Alice Oseman and the Revolutionary Power of the Platonic Love Story
Asexual Positivity in a Game About Sexy Demons
Tash Hearts Tolstoy is the Ace Coming-of-Age Story We Need and Deserve
The Conversation
Iggy & Ace: a zany Aussie comedy about two gay best friends – and alcohol abuse
Night in the Woods: the video game that captures bittersweet millennial life under COVID-19
Queer young adult fiction isn’t all gloomy realism. Here are 5 uplifting books to get you started
Lady Geek Girl and Friends
Asexual Awareness Week: Two YA Novels with Complex, Geeky, Lovable Demi Protagonists
Cute Demon Crashers Set to Return with Cute, Comfy and Consensual Queer Content
How Telltale Games Plays With Expectations in Their Superhero Series
Love, Chunibyo and Other Delusions: A Silly Yet Heartbreaking Story About the Power of Geekdom
Magical Mondays: A Journey Inside the Mind with Madoka Magica and Flip Flappers
Magical Mondays: Flying Witch and Magical Realism
Magical Mondays: Showing, Not Telling in Princess Principal
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A Cute, Fun, Trashy Domestic Comedy… with Dragons!
Sexualized Saturdays: Letting Boys Cry
Sexualized Saturdays: Martyred Moms and Dastardly Dads in the MCU
Sexualized Saturdays: Moana the Mythic Hero-King
The Bittersweet Taste of Orange
The Garden of Words: A Masterpiece, But Did It Have To Be a Love Story?
“This Town is Full of Ghosts!” The Power of Atmosphere and Landscape in Night in the Woods
Throwback Thursdays: Black Butler‘s “Jack the Ripper” Arc
Trailer Tuesdays: Life is Strange: Before the Storm
Until Dawn and the Indestructible White Guy
Web Crush Wednesdays: Potterless
Web Crush Wednesdays: Trash & Treasures