Reading in Color: "Latinos Don't Fall in Love, Asians Don't Tell Jokes"

I’m loving this new blog. (Thanks to nerdy like a rock star for the rec.) Here’s a little bit of why I’m spending my Sunday afternoon munching through post after post from Reading in Color… 

“Latinos Don’t Fall in Love, Asians Don’t Tell Jokes”

We also don’t have friendship or sibling drama. No instead people of color live intense lives of prejudice, drugs, alcoholism, abuse (but not mental illness because for some reason no one wants to talk about that particular topic. humph). We never have any fun. There are no wealthy people of color, and there are no people of color who happen to be middle class….

Honestly though, about half of this post isn’t really about me. Yes I’ve always mourned the lack of funny YA books about poc, but I never would have noticed how few YA romances there were about poc if my younger sister hadn’t pointed this fact out to me a little while ago. She loves to read and I’m always giving her books I receive that I don’t have time to read right away. but she ALWAYS asks me if I have any romance YA books for her and the answer 99% of the time is no. Which is really upsetting to me. My sister loves to read, but in the genre she loves most, she can never read about a Blatina like her finding love.

Amen to that. Time to step up to the plate publishers and writers. 

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