White Gatekeeping in YA Lit

In a startling and insightful piece, Kelly Jensen over at Book Riot explores the role of adult readers of YA lit defining and boosting the genre more than teen readers do - especially on social media.  She also dives deeply into the issue of white gatekeeping of the literature and the damage this does.

She writes: "Despite the fact young adult books are “for” teenagers, it’s rarely teens who are shouting the loudest about those books. They’re reading them, but they’re not necessarily the ones making the most noise about books in the YA “community” on social media."

To read this thoughtful article, stop here.