Nora Roberts is apparently too spicy for people -- and we need to be worried about that. Book bans are coming for romance novels -- even clean ones.
Why Romance Novels Are the Latest Target of Book Bans
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Bioessentialism in Omegaverse
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Art is always political, which means even tropes like omegaverse take on political bents. We should be wary of bioessentialism in omegaverse.
Where Are All the Alpha Females in Omegaverse?
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Look up omegaverse, and you're bound to trip over "omega male" characters. It's much harder to find their counterpart, the alpha females. Why?
Why “Level-Up” Romance Sucks
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Does an HEA always have to mean marriage and kids? Probably not, which is just one of the reasons the level-up romance is a problem.
Call Him Mr. Mom: How Should Parental Names Be Handled in Omegaverse and Mpreg?
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What should children call their omega parent in omegaverse stories? There were quite a few different answers.
Omegaverse and Consent
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Consent is curiously absent from a lot of romance novels. But a/b/o stories tend to play with this in a more intentional way. A lot of stories featuring a/b/o dynamics feature dubious consent—but does it have to be that way?
Did Anyone Mention Gender Identity Includes Boy and Girl?
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Laws banning discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity are front-page news. But they seem to be overreaching on a lot of fronts.
Can Mpreg Escape Bio-Essentialist Messaging?
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You'd think a guy getting pregnant circumvents the biological essentialist standpoint. But mpreg often has a lot of bio-essentialist stances.
We Made Gender Up
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Some people think gender and biological sex are linked. In reality, we kind of made up everything about what makes a man or a woman.
Second Wave Feminism Got It Wrong
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Second wave feminism tried to dismantle more than the first wave. But 50 years on, we're still fixing what the 1960s and '70s got wrong.
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