#rags on the parent!!! and they were like ‘well our families definitely get judgey for not speaking spanish’ and it’s like no i’m talking

[thewingedwolf]

had a book club with my friends and i had a criticism of the book that the main character is biracial and she slots into a lot of tropes i see a lot - they’re always disconnected from the “of color” part of their heritage, always strained with the grandparents bc they don’t connect culturally except they’re almost always close with the white part of their family, always part white in general, always have a shitty friend who gives you that “i don’t see you as x” thing and i just wish mixed characters can be allowed to tell another story besides this one but all my friends were sort of blank faced like they had no idea what i was talking about like i felt insane aksksj i’m definitely very critical of YA bc i cannot ~relate to it anymore but it was A Moment