I love this one! Y'all can have the clean cut boys! I like mine with piercings and tatts please! Jk, but still nose piercings are Just got! #mcm @jparkitrighthere #bookboyfriendmaterial #menofcolor
I just love how dope her character looks, wish they'd make an Afro Latina though with darker skin and kinky hair.
Miss America (America Chavez) & Black Panther (T'Challa)
“The Opposite of Kicking”, Story: Al Ewing, art: Kenneth Rocafort
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by Ryy Dickerson When people halfheartedly say that Young Adult literature is extremely white, I laugh. Being a person of color and queer means often times I find myself in a young adult book either as the gay character or the character of color. Not too often do I get a chance to see myself as
Next up, Day 2 of #authorlifemonth Author photos!!! If you jump to my sister's account @dos_twinjas you will learn that our pen name #gltomas is actually a shared one, since we're a team of writers so work collectively on projects we thought, oh what the hell? Why not just combine our pen name. Since I'm the first born we battled on putting L first, but mutually decided that G.L. sounded better than L.G. Since its a cell phone brand😂😂😂 I basically just screenshot her post😂cuz I'm lazy like that. But love this picture since it was our first time on the West Coast. Plus it was months before we big chopped. I think we chould get another one with our beautiful natural hair, objections? Hehe Thanks to the lovely @missdahlelama for hosting this event. Everyday I look forward to Everyone's post. Lurking on the hash tag like a stalker!👤
Day 3 of #authorlifemonth #authormonthlife brought to you by the amazeballs @missdahlelama My last 5 star read. Whoa, so I haven't been reading lately but I definitely remember what my last 5 star read was. The Sista hood: on the Mic by E-fierce aka Elisha Miranda. So a little confession I read and review YA and friggin love it. The themes usually present in YA are themes I wish were present in NA and adult novels more often, my three favorite being cultural identity, racial identity and sexual identity. By our adult years it's like we're supposed to have it figured all out but In my unique case I don't. And this is one of books that I always bring up in my YA presentations when I publicly speak on books. Why I connected to it: 1.An Afro-Latina main character. ( I'm an Afro Latina of Cuban ancestry and this was the first time I read a girl in a book who was Latina, DARK SKINNED not mulata but negra como yo w/a big kinky Afro. I cried reading that because from the cover you can't tell the main character is black) 2.Characters that come from a lower socio-economic background. 3.Queer female characters of color, especially Black and Latina characters of color. (This is the kicker. This is also one of its kind for me because usually #lgbt books are never about black and Latinas. I wish more people knew about this book 😪) 4. Characters that reflected the Hip-Hop culture without being offensive, appropriating or stereotypical. The Sista Hood on the Mic follows Mariposa Colon aka MC Patria, an Afro-Puerto Rican girl from San Francisco, CA with a love for Hip Hop and making a name for herself but she needs a fly crew to do it! That is where The Sista Hood comes in. This was a book about a girl but most important it was about a girl who maybe likes girls. A girl who valued friendships with girls. This book is about empowerment between girls and I think it's sad that more people don't know about this book. The friendship between the girls is something I think is missing from YA. Everything always seems to be centered on getting a boyfriend and while Mariposa wanted to be with someone, her friends were more important. That's, like, a big high five for me!
Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
This is glorious and even thought it doesn’t fit in the range of all the paranormal, I MUST share
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TLDR~ A company offered me a job *IF* I cancel "Fins & Crinolines" and don't produce anything for it while I'm working for them. I need an income desperately rn. So either my Patreon gets enough funding to become my income in the next few days, or I have to cancel F&C and take the job...
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Why Book Reviews Matter! Part One-The Creative Side
I’m sure everyone is tired of hearing about the conversation about reviews. As an author they’re helpful, as a reader they’re helper, but I know some folk think reviews aren’t important. I was actually inspired by an author friend M. Hollis, who recently wrote a twitter thread about how helpful reviews are to marginalized writers, who have the hardest time getting their books in front of the…
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