B a Scholar: A Brief Guide to Intersectionality and Young Adult Literature

How we can validate adolescence(ts) and appreciate literature (without being too boring or nerdy . . . hopefully?)

Hello, my lil’ B’s Hive+ supporters! When I decided to make this newsletter, I was hesitant to create a paywall for many reasons, one primary fear being that no one would even want to pay to read about my boring thoughts. You’ve proven me so wrong, and I thank you for being here with me and encouraging me.

I’ve been working to refine the content I’ll be offering to paid subscribers, and one idea that just hasn’t gone away is my desire to share the academic approaches to reading that have inspired me and made me a more thoughtful, critical reader.

While I love reading for fun, and I love that my book club is a less formal way of discussing books, I am also a lifelong student of literature, and I really love thinking about the ways that analyzing what we read adds value to our understanding and appreciation of books, authors, our world, and ourselves.

With that, welcome to the first installation of “B a Scholar,” where I spend time breaking down a variety of literary topics that are a bit more academically focused than my other posts.

I promise I will do my best to make these newsletters as non-boring as possible, especially if Literary Analysis is not your thing. But I hope you’ll find these notes to be informative, and perhaps even inspiring as we share a space of thinking more critically about reading all types of literature.

I’m so excited to share our first scholarly pursuit: Intersectionality as a helpful lens when reading Young Adult Literature.