“When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gen...” — ContraPoints Quote

“When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.”

“There are things you can say in the voice of a fictional character that you could not explore any other way.”

“More than 40 per cent of my viewers are female. When I do meetups and events, oftentimes the majority of people who show up are LGBTQ+. So I'm looking forward to better serving that community of fans.”

“Going through adolescence looking like a hormone experiment wasn't easy.”

“If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.”

“As someone who writes and teaches YA fiction, I spend a lot of time trying to define its character and readership, and I don't think I'm alone - genres are all about boundary drawing, and the YA genre is, in a lot of ways, about carving out boundaries around adolescence, a space for teenagers to do teenage things.”