#woc rep

[flyersyaoi]

no cuz i KNOW they’d be best friends

[lycanhood]

Okay, um, but I’m gonna need Angie to like officially join the friend group tho

I need her at Fashion Closet meetings

I need her in group chats

I need her at karaoke night

We’re gonna need a bigger bath tub, because I want her there too!

[lgbtqbooks]

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

Love story: 💖💖💖💖💕 (4.5/5)

Writing: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 (5/5)

Happy ending? Yes

Is it about coming out? Yes

trans books, magical realism, fantasy, Latina main character, Italian-Pakistani trans boy main character, lesbian minor character

Dedication:

Summary: To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees, and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumored to be witches. Now they want the roses that grow from Miel’s skin, convinced that their scent can make anyone fall in love. And they’re willing to use every secret Miel has fought to protect to make sure she gives them up.

Thoughts: The book is a re-imagining of the tale of La Llorona. The story also incorporates the Afghani and Pakistani cultural practice of bacha posh, in which families without sons will dress a daughter as a boy. Traditionally, when the bacha posh reaches adulthood, she returns to living as a woman. Sam struggles to decide if he can leave behind his boyhood and grow into womanhood, or if his true desire is to live the rest of his life as a man.

This is a beautiful tale that wraps you up in a world of magic, secrets, and love. Highly recommended.

Warnings: Transphobia and misgendering, Traumatic childhood experiences, Body horror for the roses that grow out of Miel’s wrist (*details/spoilers below)

Characters threaten to out Sam as a trans boy. (*Spoiler*) This does not end up happening.

Miel experienced some abuse as a child from her parents’ attempts to cure her of the curse of the roses. She relives these memories later on.

[lbpqs]

on the 3rd season of degrassi next class, Rasha Zuabi, a gay Muslim WOC & Syrian refugee who wore the hijab exists!! she's allowed to be complex & multifaceted!! as a queer hijabi woc who's never felt represented I want to scream this to the world!!

That’s awesome!

[lbpqs]

for your masterlist, the wicked + the divine is a comic with a biracial bisexual protagonist and a japanese trans woman in the main cast!

the masterlist isn’t being updated anymore, but i’ll put this in our rep tags so people can find it! also thanks for reminding me i need to catch up on wicdiv

[deathmetalsharks]

goddamnitshannon replied to your post “Usually when people want diverse art they create it or commission the...”

THAT'S MY GIRL

like im so annoyed now it’s not like i told the artist to rearrange her drawing completel, just erase one creme fraiche and add a girl who has a tan - that’s all. if she wants to shoot for the stars, add a black woman but hey apparently that’s asking for far too much 

[lbpqs]

WOC masterlist needs Black Sails!! (queer WOC major character, Max)

[deathmetalsharks]

hey guys please signal boost this - Lovesick (UK) is apparently hailed to be what HIMYM could have been - what's better than that is I believe one of the leads is a female poc! I believe she is Jamaican!