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[kuramirocket]

Centro Cultural Elena Garro

Mexico City, Mexico

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I've seen people calling Aiden Thomas a transmed author (mostly cause some transmeds like to claim his books), but if you followed Aiden Thomas on social media you'll see this not the case, also I think the reason why a lot of white transmeds resonate with his novels like Cemetery Boys and The Sunbearer Trials, has nothing to do with Aiden Thomas's writing and more to do with the fact that Aiden Thomas writes stories about LATINO trans men, and for a lot of white transmascs the message went way over their head.

In my own personal experience as a latino trans guy I relate much more to Aiden Thomas's work then to most other transmasc authors, because Aiden knows that it's a lot easier for us to internalize those toxic ideas of gender. Toxic masculinity is prevalent in latine culture it has it's own damm name "machismo". Therefore it's a lot harder for us to come to the realization that there's nothing wrong with our bodies and the problem stems from the way society views them. To add to that just as toxic masculinity is so over enforced in latine culture so is toxic feminity, so many of us feel the need to present very femininely before we finally decide to start presenting as ourselves. So once we actually come out and start presenting as male we try to compensate for that. On top of that growing up latine and afab means you and your body gets sexualized a lot more often. Mostly by the white supremacist stereotype of the curvy spicy Latina.

With all of that I can easily explain why when I read The Witch King, a novel about a white trans guy, when Wyatt said that he doesn't have a problem with his body and it was the way that people saw him as female, I personally couldn't relate.

But now going on the the actual content of Aiden Thomas's work (I will only be touching on Cemetery Boys because I haven't finished the Sunbearer Trials 😅).

Yadriel starts the novel with a lot of internalized transphobia which he's not even aware of. This is because at this point, he is the only queer person he knows, and he's surrounded by people who see him as different for who he is. It's not until he meets Julian, another queer person who has interacted with many other queer people. It's not until Yadriel starts talking to Julian and his friends that he starts realizing that everything he was taught about what it means to be a man is bullshit by the end of the book while I'm sure Yadriel hasn't 100% gotten over his internalized transphobia, he set on a path to unlearn it.

Aiden Thomas isn't a transmed author he just writes about the trans experience from a perspective that is often overlooked.

Closing off I would like to set the record cause as a latino trans author that's currently working on a novel about a latino trans boy mc. For any transmeds who wanna claim my work, it's not for you.

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Mexican Gothic ✨✨

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red in december

[leer-reading-lire]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge || January || 26 || Bookish Goodies

[esme-elora]

Happy birthday to me! My lovely wife got me a huge book haul for my birthday. I'm already done with one and am onto the second! 🥳

[caribeandthebooks]

Caribe's Read Around The World TBR - Part 2

Books set in Hispanic Latin American countries <3

[a-typical]

Outside, rain was falling on the banana leaves and water in the puddles sounded as if it were boiling.

Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo, 1955

[words-and-coffee]

But love is impossible and it goes on despite the impossible.

Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things: In a Mexican Restaurant I Recall How Much You Upset Me

[kuramirocket]

"My father, root of my blood, do not let weakness and fear stop the warrior spirit of our eagles from flying. Our men cannot abandon their desire to defend these lands so our children may live in the eternal garden of happiness that our gods promised. May the hand that will stop the enemy not be weak and never desire to press in friendship those hands that have been washed with the blood of our brothers."

- Erendira (who became a symbol of indigenous resistance when she led the Purépecha uprising against the Spanish invaders).

From Feathered Serpent Dark Heart of Sky Myths of Mexico by David Bowles

[the-helena-files]

🦇 April wrap-up

I wasn't going to do this post but I figured out it might be helpful to keep track on how many books I've read in a month, so here we are.

I've read 8 books in April. I mean, technically 7 and a half because I just finished the last one, but I've read the majority of it in April so it's still game.

Frankenstein

Yes i did read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in the year of our lord 2024, you are allowed to laugh. I'm going to do another post to go over my thoughts, meanwhile what I have to say is: 5 stars, I should have picked up earlier.

Juniper & Thorn

This... book... It became one of my favorite books of all time and the more I think about it the more I like it. 4.5 stars, it looses half a star to me because of 1 (one) scene that left me ill for days.

Mexican Gothic

I really like the atmosphere of this one, the romance could have been left out though, solid 4 stars.

The wolf and the woodsman

After reading Juniper & Thorn, I went through the other works by Ava Reid, this one I liked less, but even then, very nice worldbuilding, I loved the mythology, 4 stars.

Divine Rivals

I did picked up this because some influencers I trust recommended non stop, and I... I mean, it's not bad, it's just not my cup of tea. I really liked the mythology again, the gods were very intriguing, 3 stars.

A study in Drowning

Ok hear me out. This one is Ava Reid's ya debut and it's SO GOOD, I infodumped about this book to at least four friends and my therapist on the last few weeks. 4.5 stars, loses half a star cause I didn't vibed with the love interest very much, but I understand him being like that was important to the story.

Daisy Jones and the Six

I picked this one up because it's my best friend's favorite book, so I wanted to read to make her happy. I didn't liked it, but I don't have the heart to tell her. 3 stars, a whole ass stars is for Naely.

Your blood, my bones

This is a book for the yearners. This is a book for longing and hoping and grieving what it was and what could have been. But I was too distracted trying to figure out the magic system and the creatures. 4 stars, RIP Pedyr he would have loved my chemical romance.

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this semester's reads (spring '24)

[haveyoureadthishorrorbookpoll]

Have you read...

Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago’s lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family’s decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses—though curbed by his biological and chosen family’s communal care—threaten to destroy this fragile second chance at life.

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winter love

a bookcover i designed!

[whatcha-reading-today]

Summerween Day 4: Chiller Thrillers

Part of the Summerween recommendations. See the masterpost here.

Thrillers can be pretty horrific; here are several that cross or dance on the horror/thriller line.

All the Sinner Bleed | S.A. Cosby: All of Cosby's works are fantastic, but the reality of being a Black sheriff in a racist town, along with the religious killings of Black boys, makes for a horrifically thrilling read.

The Darkness Outside Us | Eliot Schrefer: Space station nightmare, claustrophobic and horrific.

Dead Silence | S.A. Barnes: What if your space crew came upon a shipwreck and the nightmare just evolved from there? I read this physically and listened to the audiobook, and I will give the audiobook credit. Really solid. Very excited for Barnes' next book.

How High We Go in the Dark | Sequoia Nagamatsu: This series of interconnected stories cross into horror, sci-fi, thriller, but is just plain uncomfortable throughout.

Mexican Gothic | Silvia Moreno-Garcia: A gothic story with buckets of black blodd.

Frankenstein | Mary Shelley: I love Frankenstein, there's a reason the story is credited with the explosion of horror.