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Fantasy books written by women are often assumed to be young adult, even when those books are written for adults, marketed to adults, and published by adult SFF imprints. And this happens even more frequently to women of color.
This topic’s an ongoing conversation on book Twitter, and I thought it might be worth sharing with Tumblr. And by “ongoing,” I mean that people have been talking about this for years. Last year, there was a big blow up when the author R.F. Kuang said publicly that her book The Poppy War isn’t young adult and that she wished people would stop calling it such. If you’ve read The Poppy War, then you’ll know it’s grimdark fantasy along lines of Game of Thrones… and yet people constantly refer to The Poppy War as young adult – which is one of its popular shelves on Goodreads. To be fair, more people have shelved it as “adult,” but why is anyone shelving it as “young adult” in the first place? Game of Thrones is not at all treated this way…
Rebecca Roanhorse’s book Trail of Lightning, an urban fantasy with a Dinétah (Navajo) protagonist has “young adult” as its fifth most popular Goodreads shelf. The novel is adult and published by Saga, an adult SFF imprint.
S.A. Chakraborty’s adult fantasy novel City of Brass has “young adult” as its fourth most popular Goodreads shelf.
Tasha Suri’s Empire of Sand, an adult fantasy in a world based on Mughal India, has about equal numbers of people shelving it as “adult” or “young adult.”
Book Riot wrote an article on this, although they didn’t address how the problem intersects with race. I also did a Twitter thread a while back where I cited these examples and some more as well.
The topic of diversity in adult SFF is important to me, partly because we need to stop mislabeling the women of color who write it, and also because there’s a lot there that isn’t acknowledged! Besides, sometimes it’s good to see that your stories don’t just end the moment you leave high school and that adults can still have vibrant and interesting futures worth reading about. I feel like this is especially important with queer rep, for a number of reasons.
Other books and authors in the tweets I screenshot include:
Witchmark by C.L. Polk
A Ruin of Shadows by L.D. Lewis
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Day Before by Liana Brooks
A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell
Shri, a book blogger at Sun and Chai
Vanessa, a writer and blogger at The Wolf and Books
TLDR: Women who write adult fantasy, especially women of color, are presumed to be writing young adult, which is problematic in that it internalizes diversity, dismisses the need and presence of diversity in adult fantasy, and plays into sexist assumptions of women writers.
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tired: I don’t want bad things to happen
wired: it’s okay if bad things happen as long as they’re not my fault
inspired: it’s okay if bad things happen as long as they don’t happen to me
on fire and full of desire: it’s okay if bad things happen to other people as long as I can find some post hoc justification for why it’s actually a good thing, like if the victim did something I think should be punished, or if they’re ugly
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is it even possible to cook without doing an imaginary cooking show in your head
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honestly nothing shows the sad and pathetic state of media targeted toward minors better than the fact that inside out 2 does not and cannot introduce "horny" as one of the new pubescent emotions
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how does TruMoo stay in business? i’ve never had a worse milk product. it tastes like you’re not the first person drinking it
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there’s no way to define “salad” in a way that includes all salads and excludes all non-salads.
All salads have a base of lettuce? No, because some have spinach or arugula. All salads have a base of leafy greens? No, because there’s also pasta salad and fruit salad. All salads have multiple ingredients and can be served in a bowl? No, because that also describes soup. All salads have multiple ingredients and are eaten with a fork and aren’t runny? No, because that also describes teriyaki bowls. Besides, egg salad and tuna salad are usually eaten on bread.
Even if you made a comprehensive list it would be obsolete by the time you finished, because new foods are being invented all the time and salad culture is a moving target.
this is how words work. Definitions are inexact and boundaries are blurry and ideas are altered by every mind that touches them.
I’m sorry things can’t be simpler for you.
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probably something like this:
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I wish there were a universal, low-brainpower, nonverbal way to communicate to my friends that says "hey I'm thinking about you but I don't have anything to say, nor do I have the wherewithal for a conversation right now anyway" via text message but I'm so so so upset that the original Facebook messenger Poke feature was the closest to anyone getting the right idea
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does everyone else remember “crunk”
or was that a mandela effect thing
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*food network show for neurodivergent people*
Guy Fieri: ok contestants, you have 13 weeks to make…food. Any kind of food. [Looks over at producer.] is this really—?
*cut to last minute*
Voiceover: Our first contestant Alex spent 6 weeks researching mollusks and 6 weeks unsuccessfully trying to lactoferment a sea snail. With one minute on the clock, he’s now trying to scoop a clementine out of its skin for a “citrus soufflé”
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inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.
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fat guy who wears a necktie over his t-shirt so when he inevitably spills a bit of sauce during lunch he can take off the tie and doesn’t have to change his shirt
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guy fieri is the oprah of...something. not only do i not know how to finish this metaphor, i really think it's best if i don't
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