#puerto rican books

[sukibenders]

Percy might be the token white boy for some, but for me, that boy is Afro Latino and I stand by that.

[thewingedwolf]

sometimes i see people knock on maid for being bad about like, class analysis bc she gets very lucky at several points and i do get that but i think it’s important to point out that a) this is based off this lady’s real life and i read her books & she really just DID get very lucky at several points but also b) i think it’s true of a lot of women fleeing abusive relationships that they DO have these very wide & not reliable but still existing support systems & a lot of luck when they escape an abusive partner, and the ones who are unlucky don’t escape (which we also see in the show in her friend). the reality is that it’s not just about having a support system it’s about getting REALLY lucky in your timing so you also got secretly approved for food stamps or the one (1) officer who would believe u happened to show up that day or the handful of case workers that still have the energy to care gets you, it’s just not always in your control , it’s not always about how “strong” you are or if you’re “smart enough” to leave him, and that’s terrifying, and people want to say that is bad class analysis but that’s genuinely just how it works out. u get lucky and u have a friend who has money who lets you crash at their place for awhile and that’s how you get out of an abusive relationship, it’s not comfortable to think about and the show (and her book!) make it real clear how not just randomly lucky she is to have a father she can live with & a few friends she can live with & an open bed at the shelter at the exact moment she needs it most, but also that it is really unnerving and stressful to be in a situation where you can want to do everything right and it will still go wrong for no reason at all.

[newhistorybooks]

In this stunning biography of Ruth Reynolds, a lifelong pacifist with deep roots in the Midwest, Lisa Materson introduces us not only to one of the twentieth century 's most devoted, and unlikely, champions of Puerto Rican independence but also to the revelatory concept of radical solidarity.

[casually-slips-into-coma]

was i the only person who never imagined percy as white????? or if i did he was like really really tan. like one of those white people that look ethnically ambiguous like how taylor lautner’s skin tone fooled us all.

every time i see someone on tiktok comment about how someone looks like book accurate percy its a super white guy with dark hair. even when the movie came out,, no hate to him but logan lerman was NOT who i pictured when i read the books. hes very pale. but everyone was like he was perfectly cast just not the right age.

[wahlpaper]

Café con Lychee Review

Café con Lychee by Emery Lee - 5/5 - Gay Contemporary YA RomCom

I decided to read Café con Lychee by Emery Lee because I've read one of eir books before (Meet Cute Diary), I'm on a cultural food queer romance kick, and lychee is delicious. I absolutely treated myself to a lychee and strawberry slushie in honor of this book. The book itself was a treat! Sweet and wholesome, with a few tender parts within. I devoured it, scarfed it down!

Theo's and Gabriel's (aka Gabi) families own rival restaurants. Although Gabi's family has a Puerto Rican bakery and Theo's has an Asian-American café, cultural food is a novelty in their Vermont town. Customer traffic shows that there can only successfully be one. When a new world-fusion restaurant opens up, both families find their businesses in trouble. The boys want to team up to save both restaurants. Without the knowledge of their parents, they start selling the products at school and just claim to be making normal deliveries. Theo and Gabi will have to come to terms with what they can change and what they can't. Along the way, they might find there's another reason they like working with each other. 

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[hislittleraincloud]

Surprised Jenna - like many other Latino/Latina people with influence have already - hasn’t come out to endorsement Kamala after Tr*mp and his supporters made that Puerto Rico garbage comment

HEY.

SHE'S 22 YEARS OLD. AND SHE DOESN'T HAVE TO DO SHIT. YOU CARE MORE THAT SHE DOESN'T FIT YOUR PERCEPTION OF A YOUNG WOMAN WITH A POSSIBLE INFLUENCE ON HER FANS WHO DOESN'T "USE" THAT POWER. LEAVE THE GIRL ALONE AND STOP INSULTING HER INTELLIGENCE, INTEGRITY, AND TAKE ON THE WORLD. YES, SHE IS A CELEBRITY BUT SHE DOESN'T OWE ANYTHING TO ANYONE.

🤭

Yes, m'dear.

I expressed the same sentiment of yours that earned me the ire of the shitbird anon I just quoted verbatim a few days ago.

I hope that everyone remembers how silent Ortega is being on this, especially when she's made a big shit about "wanting to be the Puerto Rican Dakota Fanning" (even mentioning this in newer interviews, still), whining about not having/seeing representation, etc. My critics here hate seeing me crit her up, but she's the one who puts herself and some of her views sparingly out there; but this Puerto Rico thing is just as big as the insults that happened in 2017 after Hurricane Maria (the paper towels, the lack of response from that POS orange fuckface). That ugly ass diaper wearing motherfucking imbecilic rapist from Hell wanted to trade it for Greenland. Our baby girl here was only 15 then, but she is now old enough to fucking put her platform where her mouth is (yeah, as the days have gone by, my anger about it has only risen, especially since we're even closer to Tuesday).

I'm not Puerto Rican, but I am Mexican and Spanish on my father's side. I'm a full on burrito with extra rice (my mother is Southeast Asian)

If I were famous and had a platform like she does, I'd have been begging my fans to vote blue since Day 1, because 1) we know Trump hates us brown people to begin with and has been saying horrific things since the 2016 campaign and 2) Project 2025 is terrifying and facets of it are already cutting into our lives and making a huge mess of it for women, trans people, and people of color. I mean for fuck's sake, Tennessee (our Jairo's home state 💕💔) ratified a law earlier this year that brings back Jim Crow era-like anti-miscegenation discrimination regarding marriage (it was targeted towards 🏳️‍🌈 marriages, but if an officiant objects to solemnizing the marriage of a mixed race couple, they're legally allowed to do that per the law...even Jon and Cairo [if they were real] wouldn't be able to marry if the officiant objected to Jon marrying an obviously not white Cairo). It's exactly what the Heritage Foundation wanted, and it's only going to get worse if the orange fuckface is let back in.

As usual I digress, but this shit is serious.

Anyway, all of the most famous contemporary Puerto Ricans have spoken up about the floating island of garbage and the whole "Latinos love making babies"/have no pullout game (which yanno, Ortega should really be on top of too, it was a DOUBLE insult to her and her family), but she's ✨busy✨. Too busy to stand up for her mother's peoples, but not too busy to make TikToks with Thing. Fuck that, and y'all should keep it in mind the next time she does say shit about politics.

But here's a celebrity who has (another Puerto Rican who has a massive, massive number of 🏳️‍🌈 wlw fans, even though she too is into guys and married), and I love her for it:

"Oh, but Tor, that wasn't an endorsement!" — Okay babies, 4 years ago vs. now

Bonus "Like" from Johnna Dias-Watson that Imma take for soft endorsement, so even freaking Divina has a tiny voice here...and she's queer. 💕 🏳️‍🌈💖✨

Once more, if Ortega finally does come out for Kamala, I will issue corrections and apologies, but it's almost too fucking late — the election is only five fucking days away — and it'll likely be too little. There are already a good handful of kids her age who think that it's okay to either vote 3rd party* or sit it out, spouting rhetoric that is well-observed and intended but impractical.

*Psst: No, it's not okay to vote 3rd party in our solidly 2 party system in our general election. The last two times a crapload of people voted 3rd party, it gave us Bush & the Iraq War and Trump & his maelstrom of domestic destruction. Republicans adore 3rd party candidates for the general election because they fucking know the kind of people who will choose them are mostly sanctimonious, ignorant and/or unhinged leftists whose votes would otherwise be unfavorable to them. Cut the shit and get serious if you're one of those 'but Republicans and Democrats are the same!' crap à la Chappell Roan (the elder Gen Z whose attitude about our politics is influencing other Zs). They are not the fucking same. Just looking at the SCOTUS picks should tell you that it's fucking laughable every time someone says this. Democrats are also not the ones who are passing misogynistic anti-abortion and phobic anti-🏳️‍🌈 and anti-🏳️‍⚧️ laws that affect everyone at their state level. Do your due diligence AND your civic duty towards your fellows and pick the one who isn't intent on destroying anyone who isn't a white (male) Christian nationalist.

[qbdatabase]

Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America ed. by Nora Shalaway Carpenter Think you know what rural America is like? Discover a plurality of perspectives in this enlightening anthology of stories that turns preconceptions on their head. Gracie sees a chance of fitting in at her South Carolina private school, until a "white trash"-themed Halloween party has her steering clear of the rich kids. Samuel's Tejano family has both stood up to oppression and been a source of it, but now he's ready to own his true sexual identity. A Puerto Rican teen in Utah discovers that being a rodeo queen means embracing her heritage, not shedding it. . . .

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"How Juan Bobo Got to los Nueba Yores" is available to read here

[mudwerks]

(via Be the First in Your Town - Pencil Ink)

Harem Company Corozo Nut Ring comic book ad, 1950s - Genuine hand carved rings from Puerto Rican palm trees. Ten different designs to choose from. Published in Heroic Comics #47.

ALL the kids want a COROZO NUT RING

[murcielagatito]

introduction from las mas bellas poesías de puerto rico

trans:

The cultural literary movement developed in Puerto Rico, much later than in most Hispanic American colonies or republics. The lack of a university, isolation, illiteracy, literary censorship and the lack of freedom of thought that the regime allowed; were the main causes of the literary delay in Puerto Rico.

end trans

[dixiana]

Incontrarti di nuovo: Sweet Fate 𓆩♡𓆪

Prologue

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Story Warnings will be Mentioned before each chapter!

A/N: Hii! This is our first time writing a story, English is not our first language so we are sorry for any mistakes! Feedback is appreciated🩷

Angelyne was a sweet, caring and passionate 22y/o Puerto Rican girl.She used to help her grandmother bake all the time, and ever since, she’d always dream about opening up her own bakery. When she went to college she met a kind, gentle, Italian man: Antonio.when they met they instantly clicked, they fell head over heels in-love. They talked about their dreams for the future, a future they wanted together.

Unfortunately, he left college without ever telling her…

After graduating she was working her morning shifts at her local bakery when a mysterious, wealthy man , offered her a job to be his pastry chef at his mansion in the French country side. Offering her shelter, an amazing pay and a start to her dream. Angelyne was skeptical about the offer,but she desperately needed the money to pay off her families debt; So she accepted the job… She wasn’t that worried, the man had the greenest eyes she’s ever seen, a strong yet kind aura, he reminded her too much of Antonio with his beautiful sunkissed skin.

“Who knows?” She said to herself, “Lord only knows if their related” she said jokingly.

If only she knew…

[boricuacherry-blog]

[newhistorybooks]

"This fantastic book, which traces the racial logics that have informed US legal decisions that undermine Puerto Rico's sovereignty, will have a tremendous impact across Puerto Rican studies, legal studies, American studies, Native American studies, and other fields."

[boriabroad]

La Jungla, Guánica, PR

July 13, 2023

[bookish-afrolatina]

Afro-Puerto Rican Spotlight: Ángela María Dávila Malavé & Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

I’m excited to share this newly translated edition of animal fiero y tierno/fierce and tender animal by Ángela María Dávila Malavé & translated by Poet Laureate of Philadelphia Roque Raquel Salas Rivera.

Description:

animal fiero tierno is a powerful lyric collection, where the “I”, as it remains deeply intimate, becomes nonetheless a collectivity, a relation of multiple solitudes. The voice, the hands, the belly, the pinkie finger, are also a dove and a lizard, a blue sun, a globe of earth, animal and light. Originally published in 1977 (Editorial QueAce, Puerto Rico), it has never been translated into English. Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s translation retains the force of Ángela’s involving rhythm, the delicate combination of the expressive and the colloquial in the language, and makes it resound, fierce and tender, in new Anglophone ears. CENTRO Press is overjoyed and honored to launch its new collection, Puerto Rican Literature in Translation, with this remarkable work of poetry and translation.

This edition includes the original poems, the translations, footnotes, AND images of Dávila Malavé’s handwritten/typed drafts.

I want to share with y’all some stanzas that captured my heart & mind:

de millones de pequeñas historias

está poblado todo:

¿importa que la lágrima

que a veces me acompaña y me abandona

se funda con el aire?

¿importa si mi cólera

detiene una sonrisa?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

translation

everything is populated

with millions of small stories:

does it matter if the tear

that sometimes accompanies or abandons

merges with the air?

does it matter if my rage

stops a smile?

tropiezo con tu ausencia

en las esquinas de las calles,

en algunas canciones,

en las cucharas que a veces se me amargan

en el sillón pequeño de paja que recuerdo

en esas noches tristes ques requieren consuelo

y en los días alegres de compartir palabras;

en plantas florecidas

y también en las cosas que nunca nos dijimos

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

translation

i trip on your absence

on street corners,

in some songs,

in spoons that sometimes go all bitter

on the small wicker armchair i remember 

on those sad nights requiring consolation

and on those happy days when we share words;

in blooming plants

and also in the things we left unspoken

If you are in the NYC area and want to learn more about this book, I encourage you to attend Cafecito con… Ángela Maria Dávila: Translating Animal Fiero y Tierno at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Hunter College) on April 4 at 6pm.

Purchase animal fiero y tierno/fierce and tender animal  here: https://centropr-store.com/animal-fiero-y-tierno/

[alleannaharris]

Oshún and Me comes out TOMORROW!

I’m so excited! Here’s a little sneak peek of the interior illustrations, and it’s also one of the illustrations that Adiba showed on her IG reel yesterday. In this scene, Mami carefully parts Yadira’s hair as Yadira holds a jar of blue hair grease. (Shout out to Blue Magic!) There’s a plate of alcapurria (🇵🇷!) on the table that was a little difficult to draw because I kept getting hungry. Also, this illustration is from the Spanish version, translated by Issa Mas. 💛 One more sleep til pub day! 📚