On GR I was dogpiled once for a gender-race-disability critique of a middle-grade book, but its author was female and most of the attacks on me were by allegedly female reviewers. I froze comments and haven't looked since. I was also contacted once -- extremely graciously and apologetically -- by a male author to ask what had given me the (mistaken) impression of a character's orientation, because it wasn't what he'd intended. I answered and he answered and it was all very cordial. But he opened with "This is a total breach of etiquette and I apologize in advance for asking..." That made all the difference, I guess?
I do find the "lists with this book" tool useful sometimes.
As far as recs, I just finished the most recent of Cat Valente's Fairyland books. They're kids/middle grade, but feminist, queer positive, and generally very fun.
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On GR I was dogpiled once for a gender-race-disability critique of a middle-grade book, but its author was female and most of the attacks on me were by allegedly female reviewers. I froze comments and haven't looked since. I was also contacted once -- extremely graciously and apologetically -- by a male author to ask what had given me the (mistaken) impression of a character's orientation, because it wasn't what he'd intended. I answered and he answered and it was all very cordial. But he opened with "This is a total breach of etiquette and I apologize in advance for asking..." That made all the difference, I guess?
I do find the "lists with this book" tool useful sometimes.
As far as recs, I just finished the most recent of Cat Valente's Fairyland books. They're kids/middle grade, but feminist, queer positive, and generally very fun.