Teaching Female Representation in Young Adult Fiction

In our seemingly progressive world, we still suffer from a lack of representation for many groups of people. One of these groups is women, and while there have been more and more well represented roles for women seen in our media, there are still some issues that we will need to overcome. Issues that are demonstrated in Young Adult fiction, one of the most popular places to discuss these ideas of Gender, Politics, and Representation to the youngest generation. As future teachers, it is therefore our job to take advantage of this popular genre in order to properly demonstrate these issues of Gender inequality found in our society.

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What 'Earthbound Beginnings' Means for Nintendo

E3 has barely started and Nintendo has already brought out a very big announcement, the prequel to their classic RPG Earthbound, originally titled Mother and now titled Earthbound Beginnings to be ported to the Wii U virtual console and is available today. Here's the reveal trailer if you haven't seen it already:

Upon examination it looks like another RPG from the NES, albeit with fewer dragons and more hippies. Why would so many fans of Nintendo, RPGs, and obscure games in general be clamoring for its release? First a bit of context: