#puerto rican books

[nakedinashes]

books cristina read in 2022: noiryorican - richie narvaez

“That was it. That was how Roachkiller would get his answers. That was the day, the moment, the second Roachkiller really became whoever he is today.”

[paimonpudding]

This is genuinely the stupidest thing I’ve ever made and I had a BLAST with it

[sukibenders]

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

[massiveladycat]

hello!! i'm planning to be a future writer, and i want to make more hispanic ocs in the future. but, i'm not hispanic. i'm a black woman, yes, but hispanic and black experiences may be very different. i'm trying to research the culture and i'm learning the spanish language already, but i'd love if some hispanic people on tumblr could tell me the do's and don't's of writing a hispanic character and a few tips. thank you very much, and please feel free to tell me if anything comes off as offensive because that's not my goal here

[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."

[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.

[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. . . .

[face-claims-central]

Kiana Carroll - Puerto-Rican American, 1998

[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

[jojotier]

there's something utterly fascinating in watching white cismen try to explain the "new phenomenon" of groups other than themselves being into things. and by fascinating I mean frustrating like hell

like the intro to "The Writing Dead: Talking Terror With TV's Top Horror Writers" has on page 2 the following quote about horror media:

"In a genre that has traditionally appealed to young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, what has finally convinced so many others- particularly women and older audiences- to watch? To see horror as something more than blood and guts?"

and you know right out the gate that this guy is out of touch as a motherfucker, because like. even if you take into account the fact that this book appeared in 2015 and likely had been written in the previous years, if you're not white and cismale, you'll know that there's been plenty of horror that's appealed to a bunch of people since forever!

the twilight zone's still resonating with people! supernatural (derogatory) might not be completely horror per se, but just look at the fanbase there! even outside the realm of tv, horror podcasts were being revolutionized literally by queer people! and that's not even getting into the indie horror game scene!

but to this guy, the uptick in more diverse viewership of horror tv is an anomaly meant to be explained vaguely by the 'intimacy of television' or streaming services or 'fandoms, maybe?' and like sure, maybe these are right in their ways, but it's still just one part of the deal. and the thing that really gets me is that the acknowledgement of horror viewership being noticeably more diverse is kinda glossed over in favor of how the magic touch is in the nature of television itself or the Talent of those writing horror shows.

and like to be very fair. I just read the intro. in the actual interviews, the folks interviewed could defs bring attention to the fact that horror is compelling to groups who aren't that very narrow demographic of young white man not just bc we like being scared, but because horror is meant to reflect the fears of our times and, therefore, with more diverse representation people are able to see their Own Fears reflected

But of 13 interviewees, only 2 are men of color and 3 are white women. the remaining 8 are white men. so I'm not exactly holding my breath here

[dky3writers]

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…

[newhistorybooks]

"This fascinating story often decenters the party's history from Pedro Albizu Campos and illuminates lesser-known and unknown characters while also decentering the history of the party from a strictly Puerto Rican setting. A fine read!"

[boricuacherry-blog]