#Bangladeshi rep

[qbdatabase]

Everyone likes Humaira “Hani” Khan—she’s easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can’t be bi if she’s only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that she’s in a relationship…with a girl her friends absolutely hate—Ishita “Ishu” Dey. Ishu is the complete opposite of Hani. She’s an academic overachiever who hopes that becoming head girl will set her on the right track for college. But Ishita agrees to help Hani, if Hani will help her become more popular so that she stands a chance of being elected head girl.

Despite their mutually beneficial pact, they start developing real feelings for each other. But relationships are complicated, and some people will do anything to stop two Bengali girls from achieving happily ever after.

[desdasiwrites]

— Priyanka Taslim, The Love Match

[rosekasa]

we got bangladeshi rep in a yuri manga before gta6

[androdetective]

I love your human designs for 31 min so much .. saw your CR Juanín post and other cultural based headcanons and I would love love love to hear any heritage/cultural hcs you have for any characters :D they're always my favourite thing to hear from fandom because of how unique it is to everyone .. hope you're having a nice day :)

Thank you so much!!! I'm having a good day hope you are too :]

I try to add ethnic features to my designs and I'm glad you like them!

Okay so

Tulio is Chilean meztizo and unconnected indigenous roots (Mapuche)

Bodoque is Mapuche (but also I like the idea of him being mexican,, he's so mexican to me what else is more mexican than a stubborn asshole. Good rep for me right there 👆)

I just like the idea of Juanín being Cost Rican because of projection and also I don't see Costa Rican characters 😭 I don't think he'd be too connected since his family isn't around

Patana is mixed black latino (also unconnected indigenous roots)

Mario Hugo is wasian (white Latina mom and South Korean dad)

Policarpo is white (german bc of his middle name)

Huachimingo is indigenous African

Maguito is Chilean-Argentine (since he was based off an Argentine magician)

Not exactly sure what I think of Guaripolo but Honduran comes to mind?

Mico is Puerto Rican

Balón is Haitian

Guantecillo is Bangladeshi

Rosario is Argentine

Cindy is mixed latino and Filipino (has a filipino mom who was raised in japan)

Amapola is mixed white and black (idk what specific ethnicities rn 😭 I'm tired currently so sorry) (I hc her as that since I've seen someone say that in El libro gordo it said amapola and freddy were siblings. And while I couldn't find that myself while skimming through the book I've just ran with it)

I think of corchetis as Mexican bc that is a very Mexican girl to me

Bombis Mexican too

That's all I can think rn, hope these are interesting!

[derpcakes]

Queer YA Spotlight: The Dos and Donuts of Love

remise: Shireen is ecstatic when she gets to compete on the very first season of the Junior Irish Baking Show—she’ll get to show off her skills with desserts, it will mean a new wave of interest in her parents’ struggling donut shop, and one of the judges is her all-time favourite celebrity baker, Padma Bollywood. But this sweet news takes a bitter turn when Shireen realises she’s not only competing against her ex-girlfriend but a potential new crush.

Rainbow rep: a plus-sized Bangladeshi lesbian protagonist; her lesbian Taiwanese ex-girlfriend

Content considerations: grating day-to-day racism and fatphobia, including online harassment; discussion of racism in the media; entitled obnoxious white people; depictions of panic attacks

Adiba Jaigirdar’s rom-coms always end up on my Best Of book lists, but I’ve never given one its own dedicated post. I feel this needs to change, and what better way to bring this about than with her fluffiest and most sincere contemporary YA yet?

Keep reading...

[etfrin]

are you desi yourself? Just curious cuz one of your posts (CORIOLANUS AHEM). And I may or may have not gone down a rabbit hole of reading smut that has woc cuz 😵‍💫 something about the aesthetic pics of seeing darker skin contrasted with lighter clothes is so hot to me. I’m not fetishizing 😭 I’m a woc myself and just noticed there’s a huge lack of representation for most. I’ve barely seen any for desi readers which is crazy cuz I’m assuming most do read this stuff… and a huge chunk of the world’s population is south Asians 💀 but yeah. I still love woc rep regardless. I need more south Asian moots 💔

yeah, i get it! i am desi— Bangladeshi to be specific ❤️

[pridepages]

💚 March 2023 titles on PridePages 🏳️‍🌈

Learn more about these titles under the cut!

Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore: (Historical fiction/YA) A remix of The Great Gatsby. (Didn’t we all know Nick and Gatsby were gay?) Rep: Trans characters, BIPOC characters, jewish character, gay, lesbian, M/M & F/F relationships.

This Way Out by Tufayel Ahmed: (Contemporary RomCom) Amar can’t wait to tell everyone his wonderful news: he’s found The One, and he’s getting married. But it turns out announcing his engagement on a group chat might not have been the best way to let his strict Muslim Bangladeshi family know that his happy-ever-after partner is a man—and a white man at that. But if Amar and Joshua can reconcile their differences with Amar’s culture, could there be hope for his relationship with his family too? Rep: BIPOC characters, gay, M/M relationship.

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone: (SciFi) Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Rep: sapphic, F/F relationship.

Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey Mcquiston: (Contemporary RomCom) FSOTUS Alex Claremont-Diaz never expected tumbling into a wedding cake with his nemesis Prince Henry of Wales would lead to tumbling into bed with him. But what begins as a PR stunt transforms first into a clandestine affair, then a love story capable of upending two nations. Forced to reckon with the consequences, Alex and Henry must ask: What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you? Rep: BIPOC characters, gay, bisexual, M/M relationship.

Undergrounder by JE Glass: (SciFi/Fantasy) The last place Alexandra Bailey expects her routine life of domestic journalism to lead is being sucked into icy floodwaters below New York City. Saved but hardly safe, Alex wakes in the Underground, a world of misfits and monsters thriving below the streets. Her beastly savior is Leanna Farrow, adopted daughter of an infamous and "presumed dead" scientist. But Alex's curiosity, coupled with her rapidly developing feelings for Leanna, put both women in danger when Alex's inquiries pique the interest of a powerful family with bloody connections to the Underground's origins. If Alex wants to unravel the secrets of the world below, she'll have to walk the razor's edge, but some mysteries are better left buried. Rep: sapphic, F/F relationship.

[justalittlelitnerd]

YA Review: Counting Down With You by Tashie Bhuiyan // Fake Dating Meets Parental Pressure

YA Review: Counting Down With You by Tashie Bhuiyan // Fake Dating Meets Parental Pressure

Hi friends! I *finally* finished this book (I started it when it came out a few months ago and then got sidetracked by other reads and now we’re here. I have a lot of feelings so buckle up folks! You’re so brave. Even if things didn’t work out the way you wanted, you tried. You conquered your fear and put your heart on the line, even though you knew it might get broken. That’s the bravest thing…

[qbdatabase]

Amar can’t wait to tell everyone his wonderful news: he’s found The One, and he’s getting married. But it turns out announcing his engagement on a group chat might not have been the best way to let his strict Muslim Bangladeshi family know that his happy-ever-after partner is a man—and a white man at that.

Amar expected a reaction from his four siblings, but his bombshell sends shockwaves throughout the community and begins to fracture their family unit, already fragile from the death of their mother. Suddenly Amar is questioning everything he once believed in: his faith, his culture, his family, his mother’s love—and even his relationship with Joshua. Amar was sure he knew what love meant, but was he just plain wrong?

He’s never thought of his relationship with Joshua as a love story—they just fit together, like two halves of a whole. But if they can reconcile their differences with Amar’s culture, could there be hope for his relationship with his family too? And could this whole disaster turn into a love story after all?

[thyastudies]

Counting Down With You by Tashie Bhuiyan is the teen rep i didn't know i was missing

Counting Down With You by Tashie Bhuiyan is the teen rep i didn’t know i was missing

Hello again! This past month has been a stressful, downhill spiral for me, but I’m back! Life hasn’t gotten easier but I’m tired of putting off writing on my blog waiting for free time that may never come. Anyway, I read this book a few days ago and it was fantastic and I wanted to write a review before I forgot any single detail. A reserved Bangladeshi teenager has twenty-eight days to make…

[moonlightsapphic]

This meme is such bullshit. Especially the way it's been going around among South Asian communities is just sooo grossly queerphobic.

Repeat after me:

There are children in rural regions of South Asia who do not have reliable access to basic necessities like safe running water, electricity, food and shelter AND are struggling with their sexual orientation, gender dysphoria, or other LGBTQ+ identity whilst living in countries with colonial British (ie sexist, homophobic, transphobic) laws—at the same time. They don't have basic physical needs OR mental and emotional needs met. And they have always existed among us.

Netflix doesn't always have great queer rep—but it popularized shows with queer rep in deeply bigoted countries. It humanized queer people to a miraculous degree in geographical areas in which progress has been frustratingly slow.

Netflix made western queer people visible and undeniable.

So South Asian bigots are now doing what they do best: They’re trying to gatekeep who can identify as LGBTQ+. They’re trying to reframe queer identity as some sort of privileged activity that only white people can indulge in. They’re trying to force the narrative that it’s, like, so ironic for South Asians in formerly oppressed countries to be watching characters struggling with gender and sexuality. Like it’s the same thing as watching The Kardashians for entertainment. Absolutely irrelevant to Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistani lives.

I’m an incredibly privileged South Asian woman. I went to a good school and had access to books to read and learn about the LGBTQ+ community, among other things. (I pirated them off the internet.) My parents have been supportive of my moving abroad and funding my incredibly expensive education. (Fellow desi people will understand that this is a Big Deal.) My family will, however, not be accepting of my bisexuality or my girlfriend, who is part of the healthiest relationship I’ve ever been in and perhaps is the love of my life. Her parents are a lot more conservative than mine. The number of LGBTQ+-affirming people we know from our home country is in the range of single digits. Someday, we will have to decide whether we want to continue being with each other and get cut off by nearly everyone we know and quite possibly put our lives at risk if we ever go back to our hometown again. (There are a big number of bigoted vigilantes there quite willing to gang up on people they don’t like and murder them. Our laws criminalize homosexual acts.)

It’s either that or simply break up and find men that our families favour to marry. (Muslim for me, Hindu for her, well-off and pretty and able-bodied and educated for both of us.)

My identity has the potential to jeopardize my entire life, and my mental health has taken a huge turn for the worst because of all this. We’ve had to overcome so much together. It’s so unfair. As healing as my time here has been for me, I can’t bear living in America sometimes. I can’t bear witnessing all of this freedom and acceptance and not knowing if it can ever truly be mine.

I can’t imagine what it’s like for those less privileged than me, who are alienated, bullied, abandoned. Who have to resort to surviving through any means possible. My heart goes out to you. I think about you. I want to live to write my biography and hope it will reach the next generation. I want to hear all the stories that were never told. I wonder how many of us have been erased, how many more have to be sacrificed for decades to pass and for us to finally be given the dignity and respect we deserve.

You deserve to be here. You deserve to explore yourself and find out who you are. You deserve to exist and be happy. You deserve that just as much as you deserve safety, security, a roof over your head, food on the table, and loved ones surrounding you.

[i-wanna-b-yours]

very much waiting for bengali rep in mainstream media. bangladeshi or east indian doesn't matter. would love for my language to be seen on screens.

[damnableblueribbon]

headcanon that Mary MacDonald is Bangladeshi bc

a. We need rep

b. yes

c. I relate to her far too much

d. miss girl swearing and talking fast in bangla slang and language is everything

[percabeth4life]

*gets down on knees* Can we please have good Indian (and Asian) rep in your books? 🥺 (No we don't drink weird juices, a lot of Indian have a VERY subtle accent, we don't go around screaming whatever Raj Mandeli did in PJO. Also, Asian parents are very strict and abuse is VERY normalised, so is victim blaming, and parents are usually very over protective so going to a camp year round or not would still cause problems. Single parenting is a big no-no as well and single parents are frowned upon)

*squints at my character sheets* uhhh let's see. I do have some characters designed, two with more focus than the rest-

Aaqib Dang: genderfluid Indian (Ares kid)

Suki Sasaki: Disabled (RA) Japanese girl (Demeter kid)

Rosa Biyu Caro: 15 year old girl half-Chinese, Half-Mexican (Apollo kid)

Janessa Tagapulot: Genderless Filipino (Apollo Kid)

Aarya Chowdhury: 14 year old Bangladeshi girl (Aphrodite kid)

Xiu Ying (Emily) Huang: aroace Chinese girl (Aphrodite kid)

Hari (not fully designed): unclaimed Indian boy

Havu & Naganath Bali: unclaimed uncertain location twins (Hindu family)

Kaia Bano: unclaimed Indian girl (Muslim family)

Hitsugaya Toshiro: unclaimed Japanese boy (don't @ me for being a bleach fan okay)

And technically, while not actually Asian, of Percy's mer-friends

Fetu & Lagu Faumuina: one parent from the Pacific ocean, implied to be of the Japanese pantheons court

Some of these are more fleshed out than others, I spent ages doing character design lol.

[etfrin]

ANON SO REAL FOR THE DESI READER. BRO I NEVER SEE SOUTH ASIAN REP ANYWHERE (unless bad stereotypes 🤨) LIKE ??? Do people forget they exist lmfao. The ig reels comments under south Asian posts are sooo 💀 yikes

Anytime i see poc reader i get happy in general tbh but wow the lack of south Asian rep in general just baffles me so yeah just wanted to share!

that is so true, i am glad that poc finally have some representation but i swear they forgot we desi girlies exist??? And even if they remember it's mostly just nonsense because a lot of people don't know shit about our various cultures and traditions, and people who are aware of our existence only knows Indians, it's as if Bangladeshis and Pakistanis don't even exist so yeah i am glad the anon sent me that ask, coz otherwise i probably wouldn't have written (i am shit scared of messing up writing my own culture up lmao) and don't even let me begin on the stereotypes-