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Random Alex and I joined Jonathan Strahan for an Australia Day podcast on Wednesday. We discussed the nature of Australian identity, the discomfort of patriotism and colonial guilt, the relationship of people to landscape, cultural cringe and trying to overcome decades of ( Read more... )

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Cindy Pon asks questions about cultural appropriation and the responsible portrayal of diversity in fantasy fiction, and a variety of young adult writers present their answers.

On a similar theme, Karen Healey is on Strange Horizons talking about Margaret Mahy, and the use of New ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot of contemporary YA (ie non-fantasy, set in the real world) over the last couple of years and something has been niggling at me lately - where are the non-white characters?

I have managed to read quite a lot dealing with LBGT characters thanks to Lee Wind's blog, but very little that deals with cultures other than Anglo ( Read more... )