#woc authors

[whilereadingandwalking]

So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth is an anthology edited by Aracelis Girmay, featuring poetry, art, and nonfiction. It tells a wide, wide range of stories, encompassing the full scope of reproductive justice and care, from miscarriage to abortion to birth to motherhood. It includes pieces by lesser known voices as well as better-known authors such as Tiphanie Yanique, Patricia Smith, Angie Cruz, Mahogany L. Browne, and more.

The stories told here are emotional, brutal, soothing. They talk about everything from the sterilization of Puerto Rican mothers to creating communities around IVF to the over-medicalization of labor and what alternative, non-medical birthing could look like. New kinds of motherhood are put onto paper. Ruth Irupé Sanabria talks about how PTSD influenced her reproductive experiences; Patricia Smith talks about how the silence and refusal to talk womanhood or sex warped her coming of age. Women write of abortion experiences, some normal, some necessary, some traumatic. One girl is able to connect to a friend in college who pays for her abortion and connects her to his mother, who, without judgment or condemnation, tells her what she can expect and what her own experience was like. The stories are full of so many different viewpoints, traumas, insights, and riches. It's well-worth the read, for its chronicling of women of color's voices in a world where they're so minimized and silenced, and for its insights into the complicated webs of pregnancy and motherhood.

General CW for racism, infant death, sexual assault, medical trauma/dismissal, misogynoir, sterilization, emotional/physical abuse, grief, miscarriage. Also sexual assault depicted on-page in "The Water Clock" and an intense warning for "Pity" by Seema Reza for its graphic abortion/loss/infant death depiction.

[renlo]

I made a children's book!

Happy to announce that I've published my third book (and second children's book)! 'I Can Do Anything!' is a brief 20+ page story that follows Jaden as he wonders what he wants to be when he grows up. The book ends with a few coloring pages as well!

I had fun writing this brief, silly little book. It's available on Amazon right now!

[queerliblib]

do you have books about trans men of color? Written by trans men? Asking cause I can never find books with trans people in them, let alone written by them, and it's especially hard to find books about & by trans men, especially trans moc. (Also, I've never once seen a book about a straight trans man, which idk I always feel nervous asking about cause "erm straight ppl can't be queer" or whatever but I want to see some trans het and T4T books)

Anyways, sorry for the bother but I need some new books to read and I've decided to be self indulgent this time around

oh please don’t apologize, you should absolutely be self-indulgent! these (as far as our research shows) all have trans moc main characters and are primarily by trans moc (with a few non-binary authors of color)

Freedom House by KB Brookins (poetry)

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (YA)

Black on Both Sides: A racial history of trans identity by C. Riley Snorton (non-fiction)

We See Each Other by Tre’vell Anderson

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender (YA)

The Passing Playbook by Issac Fitzsimons (YA)

& here are a few more titles from our wishlists that we hope to buy in the future, just to give you a few more ideas

Pretty by KB Brookins (memoir)

Outside the XY by Bklyn Boihood (anthology)

Boys Run the Riot by Keito Gaku (manga)

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar (adult fic)

as for trans het or t4t, caveat that the authors & characters here aren’t necessarily POC but I wanted to still give you a few options!

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall (trans femme)

Chef’s Choice by TJ Alexander (t4t)

A Shot in the Dark by Victoria Lee (trans masc)

Stay Gold by Tolby McSmith (trans masc)

[mauvecherie-writes]

urgent support.

Hi guys, now I’m not ashamed to always ask for help but when it’s monetary, it always adds this layer of shame to it. However, I am an unemployed student still struggling to find work.

Until I get my student finance - I’m in overdraft and I have bills and expenses I need to cover for until then.

If you can please donate anything at all to my pot to achieve £150 it would be a massive help.

Thank you, thank you, thank you 🩷🩷🩷🩷

PAYPAL

KO-FI

[rae-gar-targaryen]

Thank you for including me! I will also add that @inklore and @andrewrussgarfield also should be included!

Hi I was wondering if you have any recommendations for any poc authors\fics in the TGM fandom? And authors that write/are inclusive for plus sized readers.

I hope this is okay to ask.

Well, I am a WOC (black) author and I know that @greenorangevioletgrass (biracial), @rae-gar-targaryen, and @fanboygarcia are also WOC (latinas) and I think @inklore is also a WOC.

I have also written fics that are explicitly plus sized readers and some that are inclusive while not explicitly plus sized. I believe @wildbornsiren has also written some plus sized readers.

If there are any others that I haven’t mentioned, please signal boost

Tagging moots to boost @writercole @hederasgarden @sebsxphia @thesluttyarchivist @therebeccaw @imjess-themess @newlibrary @evansrogerskitten @princessmisery666 @antiquitea @blue-aconite @fuckyeahhangman @hangmanapologist @hangmanbrainrot

[unique-high]

Does anyone have jongseob p1harmony x black reader fanfics? Fluff or angst or anything angst? If not can someone please write a college themed fic with seob and black reader. Where seob is a film major and black reader is an English major and they bond over books and movies. Like black reader prefers reading books instead of watching the movies to them and seob prefers watching the movies instead of reading the books to the movies. And I think seob and black reader have a playful argument where they go back and forth to which is better. And like they have like this “date night” and Seob wants to watch a movie to a book black reader had read and she's like rolling her eyes the entire movie saying how stuff in the movie doesn't match the book at all. And seob playfully wacks her in the face with a plush mellow telling her to just enjoy the movie and black reader tells him, he has to read the book since he's making her watch that God awful film against her will. 😂

I think a bonus is where seob makes a short film for black reader asking her to be his girlfriend. 😭

Please someone write this. 🥹

[swoleas]

This is not organized and is ranty so forgive me but was reminded of the sera femqunari fetishization and now thinkin again abt how its a missed opportunity to have her eagerness towards the inquisitor tied to their race rather than their CLASS. like first of all, the only people ive seen enjoy that "woof" scene have been white sapphics. and second, the unsaid aspect of the way the ingame qunari body looks that Sera is into is that fact that they are tall and buff. a WARRIOR could be tall and buff and most likely IS at the very least muscular. a qunari (not bound by the limits of the dai character creator) could be short and scrawny with no muscle at all.

so anyway sera should have found fem warriors hot instead is what I'm saying

this is something that has always made me uncomfortable as a WoC and is something I fear bioware is going to lean INTO rather than move away from in the Veilguard, especially as the only qunari companion is a buff hot headed warrior and appears to be black as well. feels like bioware is encouraging the hypersexualization of a race which is already heavily coded as SWANA as well as is portrayed as a black woman.

and the white sapphics are already being fetishistic about her I fear.

[xdarkeningkrystals]

Just so you know, Julie Plec just got the rights to adapt another book. However, this is a book written by a WOC and features an Interracial relationship. I will be legit shocked if nobody else is worried since Julie did not redeem herself of the Bonnie/Kat controversy with Rose Hathaway.

[maxellminidisc]

Might reread The Kiss Quotient again, I wonder if it still holds up since I very much enjoyed it despite a couple of soap opera-y bits near the end (the banquet bit lol). It's been a while and I'm still bummed about cousin Quan's book too oskskkdkskkd

[strangeauthor]

i remember watching heathers on rabbit (rip rabbit) and there were two points where i had to cover the screen with cats because they were legit triggering scenes but overall we had a good time. everyone cheered when jd blew the fuck up dfvkjfvkjfvkj

[womeninfictionandirl]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie by Rukiye Derdiyok

[chwe-y]

having read the seven husband's of evelyn hugo , my thought's while reading were that i loved evelyn, she was a flawed but determined woman, and i loved harry cameron, and i wished they'd both gotten better endings.

but most of all i thought, that the little i knew of james grant, i loved so intensely. the little we saw of him, the small insights into who this man was, had me sobbing uncontrollably for the life lost, not just his as an individual, but his as a father and a best friend. like here was this man, who was so loyal, and that loyalty lead to such a tragic end. it's not just that he died, but his good name was ruined so that the rich elite could save face.

i don't blame evelyn for doing what she did, i do a little bit blame harry for driving under the influence, but mostly i can't help but noticing that in order to protect the dignity of a white man, a black man had to suffer, and that black man's daughter had to grow up without a father, and grow up thinking that her father was reckless with his life and other's l.

idk i think that's the real tragedy, i think james grant was lost to the annals of time, his story will never be told and i can't even be mad about it bc angela grant is such a sweet woman and i would keep the truth of her marriage from her as well. he died before he could figure it out, how to have it all, his great love story and his beloved family.

[unique-high]

Project Romance

Hanbin x black girl OC

Summary: In which a boy finds himself falling in love. Or where Hanbin is part of the film and photography department and he is given the assignment to document a girl named Krystal Taylor.

SMALL PREVIEW

Krystal looked into the camera. I zoomed in on her face before zooming out. "Don't you find me boring?" she asked.

"Not at all. I walk around her with the camera capturing every bit of her. "You're the most interesting person I've ever met."

She threw her head back laughing. The sun poured into her mouth and poured over her skin making her glow. I lowered my camera to watch her with my eyes. Something about the way she laughed made my heart spark and jump. And I think then, at that very moment I had fallen in love with Krystal Taylor.

A/N: I'm not going to write this story anymore but anyone is free to have it. If you do write it please tag me I would love to read it. 😭 You can also turn this into a Hanbin x fem! Black reader. Or any idol of your choice with y/n. 🙂

[thebearthatreads]

As Christmas approaches you might be stuck thinking of ways to support the authors you love, good news it's easy! There's tons of ways to support authors without spending money if your finances are tight: like, share, and comment on their social media posts, leave reviews for their books (if you've read them), request their books at your local library. We appreciate every little bit of support ♥️

My novel It's All Magic To Me came out over a year ago through a small indie publisher: The Three Little Sisters. I do my best to market it and not be overly pushy but it's tough. If you've read my book please leave me a review, I love hearing your thoughts!

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[sparklemichele]

I haven’t been on Tumblr like I use to. To my followers who have been with me since day 1 what do you miss the most when I was active. I’m trying to gage if I want to continue my writing on this platform.

Send me a message and let me know! 😘 XXOO

[bookishfeylin]

I read something you said and you put into words what I've been struggling to verbalize for a while. I'm a bi brown woman, and always happy for representation. But it bothered me that Fandom insists black and brown women are always gay to push them out of the way for a white ship, or white authors (in this case SJM), lazily slapping on queer on a woc (Emerie) for brownie points. I'm not saying men loving us validates us, or that we need them to, but it is weird that a lot of media refuses to put woc into loving relationships with men. You saying that it says "woc aren't deserving of love from men" was finally what I was looking for to describe it. So thank you.

Hi nonny! I think you're talking about either this or this post? But either way, you're very welcome, though before I fully answer this ask, I want to add the disclaimer here that I'm straight and cis, though I've also seen many LGBTQ+ POC complain about this phenomenon too, like @positively--speculative.

Firstly: Of course LGBTQ+ POC need representation, and deserve it. I don't want anyone who reads this to think otherwise. Representation matters. But this is a nuanced conversation that needs to happen.

The problem is that many white authors and their fandoms want to seem "woke" and "diverse" without actually caring about their diverse characters. So they'll make the POC the token gay and sideline them so they can focus on the white (usually cishet) ship. They won't develop the character or give them a personality beyond their race and sexuality, half of the time don't even bother to give them a love interest or even a relevant love story with screen time***, and mainly use them as little more than a background prop for the story of the white ship. @positively--speculative has discussed how white fandom did this with Valkyrie after Thor Ragnarok came out: white fandom claimed Thorkyrie couldn't be shipped because it "ruined" Val's bisexuality. Never mind that there's no other woman in Thor Ragnarok that Valkyrie can be reasonably shipped with, apparently we just don't deserve to see Val in love at all! (I recommend checking out all her posts tagged Thorkyrie if you want more of her--a Black bisexual woman's--perspective, on the matter). And Sarah J Maas is a big offender for doing the same to her WOC.

As you and I both said, a large part of it is people being uncomfortable with WOC being the romantic interest of men (this is especially true of ships that involve Black women. A lot of the time fandom considers the Black woman to be an "independent lesbian" who doesn't need romantic love from a man, so her male love interest should be with [insert popular white character here]). What it ultimately boils down to is racism, and us not being seen as viable love interests worthy of romance (from men).

But many people simply don't want to admit that, and merely switch to the 'this woc is a lesbian' game. And it sucks, doing a disservice to all the marginalized people involved.

***or they're fetishized.