Rick Riordan is also using his money and fame to lift marginalized authors. He started a whole imprint called Rick Riordan Presents. The books published there have mythology and folklore from all over the world, and they’re written by authors who actually belong to those cultures. The first three books announced have stories based in Korean, Mayan, and Indian cultures, written by Yoon Ha Lee, Jennifer Cervantes, and Roshani Chokshi respectively.
Rick Riordan is pretty fucking cool. Ive never seen a YA put as much care and effort into growing as a writer, specifically with a focus on increasing diversity, as him.
The fact that he’s a UT alum from San Antonio who taught middle school English just warms my heart.
PLEASE click on the link to his Stonewall acceptance speech my god you won’t regret it
hey, by the way, being proud that you’re aro isn’t the same as saying no one else should ever be in love and people who get defensive over it when you say you’re proud to be aro are not your problem
same goes for people proud of their asexuality as well. being proud of who you are, isn’t saying nobody should ever be sexually attracted to other people.
Found a new short that looks interesting. Learning Curves, seems like a quite diverse own voices book that I hope to check out, and you might want to as well!
ok gays Keira Knightley is starring in a new period movie called “Colette” about a real life queer French writer where she’s gay and wears suits and eats apples sexily and there’s a trans actor playing a cis role and there’s a butch nonbinary trans character who is treated well and is rich and wears tuxedoes the entire time, basically I’m saying this is the best movie I’ve ever seen it has the entire LGBT in it and I’m literally fucking shook right now by the sheer level of gay go see it right fucking now
When other people, especially older people, try to ‘educate’ you about how ‘sexuality is complicated’ and how ‘you might not be ace’ and that ‘you’re probably confused’ and that ‘you’re probably [this] instead’,
You run.
Sexuality is indeed complicated, and yes, you might not be ace. But these kinds of people couldn’t care less either way.
Helpful people give you the freedom of choice – whether that choice lasts a lifetime, or until the next morning. Helpful people give you the agency to make your own decision about your own, personal, private identity.
If someone is trying to collectively discourage questioning aces into forgoing their ace identity? That’s not helpful. That’s an illusion of help under the guise of liberation. They’re trying to make you into something they want you to be.
Whether their advice is helpful or not, to any degree, this type of gaslighting and manipulation is not what you deserve. You can get the same kind of answers and help and support from people who aren’t damaging and toxic.
Find people who will let you be ace. Find people who will let you be yourself.
there is something so insidious and disgusting about the fact that aromantic people have to trot out some One True Friendship to impress allos with when they start questioning our worth
when society teaches people to replace us the moment they even get near a romantic relationship
not to mention how hard it can be to get close to people once that’s happened to you enough times
but nope, gotta have that perfect profound friendship that resembles a romantic relationship as closely as possible to show off whenever people start doubting you to get your Human Points back
I think I’ve talked about this here before but, let me tell you, it took me a really long time to realize that other people couldn’t just ‘turn off’ their attraction for someone else.
For me it was as easy as going ‘ya I don’t want to have a crush/like this person any more’ and poof! There went all my feeling towards them.
It was because of this that I never really understood why it was so hard for people I knew to just break up with someone or WHY they would keep going back to someone again and again.
Because for me there was an ‘off switch’ for my attraction to someone, because that attraction had never existed in the first place and I was just fooling myself into believing it was, while for others the attraction was a real, tangible thing that they couldn’t just turn off like it never existed.
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