But for the time it took me to write “Roja,” I got to imagine both Red and La Carambada as both queer and Latina.
Maybe most people don’t think of a Mexican girl when they imagine Little Red Riding Hood. Maybe the Frenchman the real Leonarda Emilia loved wasn’t a transgender soldier. The forbidding woods became the hills of Mexico in the 1870s, a country in the aftermath of a brutal war. The Wolf emerged as a transgender French soldier who garners his own fierce reputation. My Emilia became a Mexican version of Little Red Riding Hood. But along the way, my imagining of La Carambada wandered, as my stories often do, into the realm of fairy tale. “Roja” began as a reimagining of the story of Leonarda Emilia, better known as La Carambada, the legendary Mexican outlaw who flashed her breasts at the rich men she robbed, so they would know without a doubt that they’d been bested by a woman. I’m delighted to have a number of the contributors sharing a bit about their stories! Seventeen of the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens.įrom a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to two girls falling in love while mourning the death of Kurt Cobain, forbidden love in a sixteenth-century Spanish convent or an asexual girl discovering her identity amid the 1970s roller-disco scene, All Out tells a diverse range of stories across cultures, time periods and identities, shedding light on an area of history often ignored or forgotten.īuy it: B&N * Amazon * IndieBound * Powell’s * Book Depository Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape the world around them.
All historical, all queer, all out! This new anthology, edited by Saundra Mitchell, just released from Harlequin Teen and contains a host of queer historical stories by so many faves! (And also me!) Thankfully, many of those faves agreed to share a little about their stories here, so check it out, make good use of those buy links, and enjoy!
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