I've been thinking about how I never saw kids that looked like me on TV growing up. The closest thing I had was Dora, but I aint even latino. For context, I'm mixed (black and white), but I'm light skinned with straight black hair. I've seen mixed kids on TV, but they always have different hair than me. There's been a major sense of isolation over my racial identity throughout school because nobody knows what to make of me. I had a boyfriend in middle school who thought I was fucking Asian. I've also had people assume I was adopted because my mom (black side) is white passing, but people assume she's middle-eastern a lot? and my stepdad is white as well as my siblings looking white.
I read this book, Half Bad where the main character is described the same as me, but the Netflix adaptation decided to make him look blacker. When I realized that I was finally reading something that had a character that looked like me and was similarly isolated from his peers, though for different reasons haha, I cried.
