IT'S GOTH TIME.
For this special treat of a Hallowe'en episode, friend of the pod Cam leads a cool lesbian take over.
Cam is telling us the very cool, very lesbian story of Gideon the Ninth, the first book in the Locked Tomb series by New Zealand author Tamsyn Muir.
Get ready to hear about skulls, butches, bones, immortal emperors, space jesuses (or the absence thereof), and ................. homestuck references. Yes, we have it all.
Content Warnings for discussions of: suicide; bullying; abusive relationships; abuse dynamics; child murder; generic murder; authoritarian regimes.
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We return from Hiatus with Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick's On Midnight Beach, a modern (ish) retelling on of the Irish legend of Tain Bo Cuailnge. We chat about being teens and having nothing to do but start fights with the next town over a wild dolphin.
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Hello Listeners! To make up for the podcast drought which has undoubtably been causing great suffering in your days, we are releasing this week's patron pod in the main feed!
Aífe and Ciara discuss two vital questions at the heart of YA Media: Why aren't these kids in school? And WHERE are their parents?
Every writer has to reckon with these questions somehow. Absent parent explanations include space prison, hibernation, conferences, and 'oh they're there. They just aren't paying attention.'
Take care of yourselves out there. We'll try have a normal one for October.
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This week, Aífe reads a book almost as old as herself.
Keeping the Moon is as close as we're going to get to a summer read this year. We discuss a girl called Colie and how to waitressing can help you overcome your demons, meet nice older girls who are in love with each other, and become a braver and stronger version of yourself.
Content Warnings for discussions of: fatphobia, body-shaming, bullying, disordered eating, significant weight loss. Brief mentions of parental estrangement.
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Future Girl by Asphyxia has a little bit of everything for any up and coming eco anarchist and Aife and Ciara get into it with this weeks pod!
Content Warnings for discussions of: Disability (Deafness), environmental disasters, food insecurity,
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CONTENT WARNING FOR TRANSPHOBIA
Spoilers for the end of the book from 34 minutes.
In this episode, Aífe reads a Shojo manga from 1978. Even more confusingly, it's set in France. Even more confusingly, it's set in a version of early 20thc France which has skinny jeans AND landed gentry. Don't worry about it.
We get a little history lesson on Shojo, France, and calendars.
Discussion points include: the Y2K of king death; Ciara's fear of huge anime titties; historical dramas with jeans.
Content Warnings for discussions of: in-text transphobia; medicalisation of trans experiences; misgendering; murder; arson; suicide; relationships with power imbalances; relationships with age differences; real-world transphobia; real-world homophobia.
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Welcome to our first episode in our Pride Month collaboration with Small Trans Library Dublin!
Aífe tells Ciara all about Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve, a book we borrowed from The Small Trans Library! This book was billed as "the best teen zombie witchy werewolf fairy fantasy murder mystery you've ever read" and definitely met expectations!
Discussion points include: being A Good Grown Up; real life psychic warlock powers; gay baby werewolf enthusiasm; and The Allegory Of It All(TM).
To find out more about the stellar work done by Small Trans Library, check out SmallTransLibrary.org
Happy pride! Take care of each other out there!
Content Warnings for discussions of: body horror; homophobia; medical abuse including electroshock therapy; transphobia including deadnaming; violent death; structural racism; police harrassment; state-sanctioned oppression; the advancement of fascism in general.
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This fine week, Aífe and Ciara have BOTH read Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer. This 2001 novel is a classic of Irish YA/children's lit. Colfer describes this book as "Die Hard with fairies". We're big fans.
Digressions include: the amazing technological marvels of 2001, the internationally recognised insanity of the Irish, centaur-related continuity errors, Baby's First Villain Protagonist, Mulch Diggum's ... interesting ... anatomy, and the bluest eyes you could possibly imagine.
Content warnings for: mention of child neglect, psychosis, police corruption.
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We once again fail to come in under the hour mark as we discuss We Didn't Ask For This by Adi Alsaid, a contemporary fiction novel about climate change and what the power of a highly motivated group can do. Especially if you motivate that group by holding their children hostage in a school for a week.
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Remember when Ciara didn't swear on this podcast? Ah, ancient memories.
For the FIFTIETH EVER EPISODE of Forever Young Adult, Aífe and Ciara discuss The Cry of The Icemark by Stuart Hill.
This cool as hell book won the first ever Waterstones Children's Book Award back in 2005, won the 2006 Highlands Children's Book award for Long Novels in 2006, and won an eternal place in Aífe's heard when she read it at age 12.
Digressions include the nonexistence of viking fireplaces, the great funko pop crisis of 2021, talking leopards and why we hate them, reason 49856 that libraries are the BEST,
Content Warnings for: parental death, imperialism, violence in the context of war, brief mentions child death and cancer.
Apologies for the audio quality, microphones are finicky creatures.
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In this very special episode, Aífe and PATRON JAMIE discuss Julie Bertagna's 2002 'cli fi' novel Exodus.
We discuss CLIMATE CHANGE and CLIMATE JUSTICE and THE POWER OF STORIES and WHETHER EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET IS ACTUALLY A FURRY.
Bonus: queer etiquette. It's a whole thing.
Content warnings for: refugee crisis, climate chaos, brief mentions of slavery.
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Oh this one is a treat! We talk about minority languages and culture sharing versus cultural appropriation in this episode while we discuss Jaigirdar's debut novel The Henna Wars.
Adiba Jaigirdar is a Bangladeshi and Irish writer and teacher. She has a BA in English and History, and an MA in Postcolonial Studies.
Content warnings for forced outing, homophobia, racism.
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This episode is a few days later but the book is over 200 years old so really who's counting.
In this episode of Forever Young Adult Podcast, Aífe and Ciara discuss Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, a YA book from before YA was even a thing.
We talk:
Why women like shiny things
Gothic novels
Power differences in relationships
The infinite beauty of the concept of Dumb Goths Girls in Love.
Content warnings include period typical misogyny.
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CONTENT WARNINGS APPLY, see below!
In this episode, Aífe and Ciara review and discuss He is Mine and I Have No Other by Rebecca O'Conner, editor of The Moth literary magazine. Published in 2018 by Canongate, this book explores generational trauma, institutional abuse in 20th century Ireland, the agony of adolescence, and the sheer rainy-ness of county Cavan.
Murky! dreary! Rain and damp all the time! Like trying to swim through bog water!
Discussion points include:
Content Warnings: The Cavan Orphanage Fire of 1943; child abuse; child neglect; child death; institutional abuse and institutional neglect, specifically at the hands of state and church run institutions in 20thc Ireland; misogyny; murder; intimate partner violence; forcible separation of families; generational trauma; violent death.
READINGS:
The article about The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/15/i-know-what-you-think-of-me/
More about the Cavan Orphanage Fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavan_Orphanage_fire
The most recent report into Mother and Baby Homes (2020): https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/d4b3d-final-report-of-the-commission-of-investigation-into-mother-and-baby-homes/
NUI Galway has done an oral histroy project about one of the Mother and Baby homes, this is a compershenive collection of stories from surviviours and historical documents from the Tuam Mother and Baby Home: http://www.nuigalway.ie/tuam-oral-history/
http://www.nuigalway.ie/tuam-oral-history/podcasts/
If you need support due to the topics raised in this episode or for any reason free call Samaritans Ireland on 116 123 or Text YMH to 50808 to avail of their Messaging Support Service.
If you are outside Ireland support is always available and can be found by searching local mental health supports.
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We discuss Sullivans huanting retelling of the legend of the Children of Lir and Aife gets emotional over Trad Music.
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We catch up about some the books that we read over the year and discuss our favourites from 2020!
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In this episode, we review and discuss Queen of Coin and Whispers by Irish author Helen Corconan!
This week we do something different and BOTH read the book! Join us for a discussion on how cool it is to have ladies in positions of power and a historical fantasy fiction that doesn't have homophobia but does have fully intergrated people of colour! Such Excite!
Content warning for discussion of torture.
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