Forever Young Adult Podcast

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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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: 

• the mortifying ordeal of buying many many goats; 
• The benefits of not existing in the 90s; 
• avoiding pneumonia and also sexual shame; 
• Ciara as the ghost of Young Adult literature past; 
• How you can be sad even though you have a dog? 
• our Podcast Wide Anti-Abuse Stance TM.

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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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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November is a dark time so we lightened it up with a childrens book about being awake in winter when you are meant to be sleeping.  Moominland Midwinter is the fifth book in the Moomin series first published in 1957 it remains relavent today teaching us to be gay and do crimes and have extra compassion for neighbours - unless they blow military horns. 

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In this episode Ciara and Aífe discuss A Monster Calls, written by Patrick Ness based on an original idea by Siobhan Dowd. It's about grief, stories, and having a monster appear in the middle of the night to give you CBT because none of the adults in your life are doing their job and communicating with you. 

Content warning for grief, parental death, child neglect, some mentions of violence.

As is our wont, we went a little off topic. This time, to talk about the small trans libraries of Dublin and Glasgow. You should totally check them out, perhaps throw them a few coins if you're able:

https://twitter.com/smalltranslibr

https://twitter.com/translibrgla

https://smalltranslibrary.org/

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We're back, with another Irish book! Which also has gay ladies!! We're very spoiled! 

In this episode, Aífe tells Ciara all about the 2017 winner of the Eilis Dillon Award, The Space Between by Meg Grehan. She also references at least three other books on top of that.  

We're here to ramble at you about the healing power of dogs, importance of queer culchie representation, Ciara being full of love, the way that being a person with mental health difficulties is basically the same as being a horror film protagonist, scurvy, loneliness, and of course, Judas. You know, Judas from the bible? 

We may have gotten slightly derailed. 

Content warnings for; in depth discussions of mental health difficulties, specifically agoraphobia and anxiety.

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In this fine solstice episode, Aífe and Ciara read love in revolution by B. R. Collins and discuss communism, gays, short sighted 15 year olds, and the brave new world of birthday haircuts. 

Content warnings for discussions of state violence, revolutionary violence,  racism, ethnic prejudice, including attempts at ethnic cleansing (both fictional and real life ethnic groups)

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Woop its Pride Month and we are back discussing trans narratives in YA fiction and in Claire Hennessy's "Like Other Girls" Laura is having a number of struggles and one of them is adjusting to her best friend coming out as trans. 

Content Warning: Transphobia, Homophobia, Biphobia, unplanned pregnancy, abortion, alcohol abuse  

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As quarantimes persist, Aífe tells Ciara her thoughts on The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. 

We discuss once again the realisation that other people are people, the fact that mind reading doesn't actually make this realisation any easier, the shocking existence of girls, swamp survival, how good Ciara would be at murder, and what our dogs would say if they could talk. 

Content warnings for discussions of: death, pet death, murder, genocide, and all the glorious side dishes to a truly repressive society. 

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We discuss The Places I've Cried in Public by Holly Bourne in which Amelie retraces the locations of heartache around her town as she comes to terms with the end of an abusive relationship. 

Content warnings for: emotional abuse, sexual assault, sexual abuse, rape, anal rape, depression.  

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In this special episode recorded pre-covid 19 Ciara talks with special guest Andrew to learn more about losing wars due to the power of lesbian romance and how Mr and Mrs Smith traumatized an eight year old. (Aife is fine and busy gardening)

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So you're sixteen and you're trying to be a little more independent. You're going to a real school for the first time ever and there's this cute boy there you might want to kiss ... but you and your sister are LITERALLY joint at the hip, so it's tricky. 

In this episode Aífe and Ciara discuss One by Sarah Crossan; a novel in verse which follows the story of Grace as she navigates school, family, friends, reading James Joyce, and being physically conjoined with her twin sister Tippi. We discuss the struggle between familial love, personal autonomy, and romantic love. We touch on the lives of some real life conjoined twins and (with absolutely 0 authority) what it is like to have a body so far outside of the social norm that legal and medical ethics simply break down around you. 

Content warnings for: ableism. Parental acoholism. Medical trauma. Death. Mentions of eating disorders. 

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When you move to a new town it can be advisable to find out if there have been any strange or disturbing deaths in the locality. We talk about eeriness and Gothic settings and the pain of being sixteen and wanting to kiss a girl. Also magic. 

Content warnings for: discussions of Murder, mentions of relationship abuse,  romantic relationships between a minor and an adult. 

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In part two of our Australian book month, Aífe tells Ciara about 2007 novel Scatterheart by Lili Wilkinson. This novel tells the story of Hannah Cheshire, an English convict sentenced to transportation in 1814, neatly interwoven with the Norwegian fairytale East of the Sun West of the Moon.

This book won the 2010 IBBY (International board of books for young people) Ena Noël Award. 

Content warnings for: discussions of Murder, Torture, Medical abuse, brief mentions of domestic abuse, Colonial history, violent and dehumanising treatment of imprisoned people, Violent and dehumanising treatment of sex workers, Period typical sexism, classism, and racism, and romantic relationships between a 19 year old and a 14 year old.

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Aífe and Ciara discuss our second spooky season book: Anna Dressed in Blood. Kendare Blake's 2011 novel is about a girl called Anna and her excellent fashion choices. A book so supernatural and romantic that Stephanie Meyer's production company might make it into a movie. 

Let's talk magic; let's talk lying about being a wiccan; let's talk ghost hunting; let's talk like, a lot about who drove where with who and when. 

Content warnings for head injuries, gore, body horror, death, murder, pet death, implied sexual assault, and discussions of racism including references to the trans-atlantic slave trade. 

In this episode of the Forever Young Adult Podcast, your hosts Aífe and Ciara discuss Rainbow Rowell's 2012 novel Fangirl.

Discussions include: College, Anxiety, College Anxiety(TM), social anxiety, people who should be on drugs, fangirling, Baz and Simon, dyslexia, Bad Naming Conventions For Twins, and the horror of experiencing ATTRACTION. 

Content Warnings for aforementioned Anxiety, a manic episode, alcohol poisoning, hospitalisation of a loved one. 

Rainbow Rowell's new novel Wayward Son is coming out in just three days! We already have it pre-ordered from our local library,  check out an independently owned bookshop to see if you can get your hands on one too!

We get into the world of crime and art with Gardner's debut novel You're Welcome Universe. We discuss the complicated relationships between women and benefits of whales as carbon sinks. 

Aífe and Ciara discuss Geography Club by Brent Hardinger, a 2003 young adult novel about a group of unlikely teenagers brought together by a shared experience that, well, isn't geography. 

Yep, you got us. It's lgbtq+ themes. 

Discussion points include: the racoon that lives within all of us, sex on tv, 2003 internet, the gentle teen kiss of asparagus lips, solidarity, queer community, high school politics, brainy brainless bisexuals, erotic baseball playing, and why good people do bad things.

CONTENT WARNING: homophobia and queerphobia - including targeted bullying with transphobic undertones to it also.