Weekly Webcrawl: YA, More Women in History, and More

With an unexpected move and equally unforeseen medical issues, I have had precious little time to read let alone review. But I have still managed to collect some interesting links for this week's webcrawl.

Kameron Hurley's guest post at A Dribble of Ink has generated a lot of buzz on the topic of women in the historical narrative and in speculative fiction.

• Foz Meadows has an excellent response to Hurley's article here.
• Tamora Pierce weighs in here.
• Django Wexler has an excellent piece on women warriors in fantasy.

Additionally, here are some other items I found of particular interest.

• This excellent piece tackles hetero romance in YA, and the need for more non-het relationships in dystopian YA.
• Justin Landon of Staffer's Book Review has some interesting thoughts on what constitutes a YA novel in this review.
• Tobias Buckell has some interesting thoughts on damsels in distress in the video game world.
• Blake Charlton's op/ed piece from the New York Times on "Defining My Dyslexia" and a video of the presentation that led to the piece.

Hopefully you'll find these articles as thought provoking and entertaining as I did. My next review should be posted by the weekend.