- The #YASaves Controversy, June 2011
- Drugs Are Bad - author Emilia Plater
- Why the Word "Edgy" Has Lost Its Meaning
- Controversial Topics in YA (series) - authors Pam Harris and Marquita Hockaday
Cursing in YA
- What the Fudge? - agent Sarah LaPolla
- WTF Is Up With Cursing in YA? - agent Jennifer Laughran
- Keeping It Real In YA - agent Jessica Faust
- On Bleeping Profanity - author Kiersten White
- Who's Scared of the Big Bad F Bomb? - author Gayle Forman
- The "Sex In YA" series, parts one, two, three, four
- Sex in YA - agent Mary Kole
- "I Write Dirty Books and I'm Proud Of It" - author Mike Mullin
- The ABCs of Hooking Up - author Suzanne Young
- What "Sex Positive" Means - author Kody Keplinger
- Sex Positive YA - author Phoebe North
Violence and Sexual Assault
- Writing About Rape - author Jim Hines
- Blaming Victims, Blaming Characters - author Kody Keplinger
Feminism
- How Not To Stand Up For (Some) Literature: An overview of the Bitch Media kerfuffle Feb 2011 - author Colleen Mondor
- You Can Stuff Your Mary Sue Where the Sun Don't Shine - author Zoe Marriott
- On Faith, Choice, and Sexuality - author Sumayyah Daud
- Putting Women In The Story - author Kat Howard
- Reading List: Gender - Library Booklists
- The Intersection of Faith and Fiction
- On Faith - author Kiersten White
- Oh My God -- Religion in YA - author Donna Gambale
- Are You There, God?: The Mysterious Disappearance of Religion in YA Fiction - Brittany Melson
- Thou Shalt Not: Religion and Teen Books - Maria Kramer at YALSA
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