Saundra, Thank you for your detailed, thoughtful response to our invitation to have this dialogue. Your commitment to fair, balanced, and unbiased reviews for LGBTQA+ young adults is evident and much appreciated. We see the damaging flaws in our reviews that you have pointed out. Your comments are absolutely correct, and we are sincerely sorry for […]
Boycotting VOYA Magazine: Targeted YA Titles & Links
You are welcome to reproduce these lists in part or in full, on any platform, without attribution. TARGETED TITLES The titles featuring f/f relationships that Phoebe North identified with mature content warnings in VOYA Magazine, while other contemporaneous titles with sex on the page, heterosexual sex, sex between boys, and human/alien sex, did not receive […]
Boycotting VOYA Magazine: VOYA Leadership Contacts
Please remember that boycott correspondence should be polite, professional and precise. You are welcome to reproduce this list in part or in full, on any platform, without attribution. VOYA Magazine Staff Edward Kurdyla Publisher & Co-Owner, VOYA Magazine publisher@voyamagazine.com Lisa Frueh Kurdyla Co-Owner and Reviews Editor, VOYA Magazine reviews@voyamagazine.com RoseMary (Honnold) Ludt Editor in Chief, VOYA […]
Boycotting VOYA Magazine (Updated)
I’d like to take a moment to talk about why I’m encouraging the YA community to participate in a boycott campaign to contact VOYA Magazine‘s advertisers. (A boycott action list is available here, with all their recent advertisers, e-mail addresses, and Twitter handles here .) I had a very good conversation with a youth librarian […]