Justina Ireland
Justina Ireland enjoys dark chocolate, dark humor, and is not too proud to admit that she’s still afraid of the dark. She lives with her husband, kid, and dog in Pennsylvania. She is the author of Vengeance Bound and Promise of Shadows both currently available from Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers. Her essay “Me, Some Random Guy, and the Army of Darkness” is in the forthcoming The V-Word, an anthology of personal essays by women about having sex for the first time, published by Beyond Words (S&S). Blog: Justina Ireland Twitter: @tehawesomersace
Where Are All the YA Books for Kids of Color?: September Edition
September 8, 2016An examination of September's new YA releases.
It Isn’t Censorship When A Publisher Pulls An Offensive Book: It’s Good Business
August 16, 2016Once more, with feeling. It isn't censorship when a publisher pulls a book with offensive content.
A Reading List for Beyoncé’s Formation
July 6, 2016Books to read when you're done watching Beyoncé's Formation
A Reading List for Beyoncé’s “Lemonade”
May 2, 2016Books to read after you recover from watching Beyoncé's Lemonade.
Ten Celebrity Books We Do NOT Need in Our Lives
April 15, 2016Inspired by Rachel Dolezal's upcoming book about racial identity, here are 10 books we never want to see, ever.
North American Magic: The Worst Thing to Happen to Harry Potter Since Voldemort
March 9, 2016J.K. phoned it in. We can all say it. Folks were pretty excited when they first heard about new stories ...
Sci-Fi is Realistic Fiction
February 9, 2016So, the other day while reading at lunch I had the Conversation with a coworker. Folks who read genre fiction ...
A Reading List for Beyoncé’s Formation
February 8, 2016If you somehow missed it, Beyoncé released a new video for her song Formation, an anthem to blackness that embraces ...
Moving Past Octavia Butler
January 9, 2016While we at the Riot take some time off to rest and catch up on our reading, we’re re-running some of ...
Young Warriors Reading Project: A Bookish Charity!
December 16, 2015It’s the time of the year where most of us start to think about donating to charity if we haven’t ...