Gay Teens in YA Books with Calum McSwiggan

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

Global Media & Entertainment

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

It’s a BONUS episode of Doing It! where Hannah joins writer, digital content creator & LGBT+ advocate Calum McSwiggan for a book chat. They share their thoughts on the book Jack of Hearts (& Other Parts), which Calum read for Penguin’s LGBT+ book club. Exploring sex education and how sex is represented in YA, they ask: “Where else do young people get depictions of sex?” They also look at a nuanced vision of homophobia, talking about prejudice within the LGBT+ community itself. Finally, they discuss their uncomfortable reading about Jack’s first time having anal sex – was this as consensual as Jack seems to say it is? Do we look back when we’re older on ‘bad sex’ and reframe that experience?

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0:00.0	Otis and sex education I have a huge crush on.
0:02.4	Do you?
0:03.4	Yes.
0:03.5	Like I really don't.
0:05.3	I'm pretty sure the actor is over 18, so it's fine.
0:07.7	Oh yeah, yeah.
0:08.4	It's fine.
0:08.6	It's fine.
0:09.0	It's fine.
0:09.5	It's all good.
0:10.2	It's all good.
0:10.7	It's fine.
0:11.0	It's fine.
0:12.4	It's fine. where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.
0:25.2	Hello, welcome back to doing it with me, Hannah Witten.
0:29.3	Thank you so, so much for the response to the first episode.
0:34.4	It's been so overwhelming.
0:35.7	I'm so glad that you liked it and that you're as excited
0:40.0	as me about this podcast. I cannot wait to share all of these episodes with you. So today is a
0:49.5	bonus episode already because it is a Friday. And I know I said the episodes would come out every hump day,
0:55.1	every Wednesday, but I just thought for launch week, let's have two episodes. Why not? So this is
1:03.2	going to be a bit different because this is not an interview, this is a book chat. In this episode,
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