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The Mary Sue: NY Times to YA Publishing: Stop Being So Girly

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There’s much that’s wrong with Lipsyte’s screed about gendered stories—starting with the fact that insisting that readers occupy a gender binary leaves no room for transgendered and gender neutral readers, or readers struggling with gender identity—but the most inherently offensive to me, as a…

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    AWESOME ARTICLE. We approve.
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