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"Though she be but little, she is fierce." ~Shakespeare. Mixed Race Asian American WOC, Feminist, Teacher, Writer. Message me or ask me questions!
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countdown to christmas day 15 of 24: love hard (2021)

“what if I write a piece about a girl on the verge of giving up on love when she comes to find the perfect guy might actually exist? so she risks it all. her sanity, her common sense, her ability to ever be on the bachelor, and it’s worth it because they fall in love just in time for christmas.”
Source: jakeperalta

This has to stop.

Yet again there are books being pulled this time from Texas School Districts. In Texas books about race and sexuality are being pulled from multiple Texas School Districts. 75 formal requests by students' parents and community members have been sent to school districts in Texas to ban certain books from libraries.

According to NBC News here are 50 books certain Texas Parents want banned.

This has to stop these type of people could have an agenda if they do, it's a bad one of course.

How come the same people who chant about freedom and free speech and free markets are also the same people going around censoring books? Make it make sense

Not to be extreme but you know who else was in to burning books…

(Not to mention when they ban books from high schools you know those kids already have iPhones and can look at whatever they want. What’s the point? Kids barely read nowadays as it is and now you wanna ban all these books?)

A Karen called the police over a comic book about a kid struggling with his sexuality.

You can read at least the first part of Flamer through Google. There was scene with domestic violence and reviewers are saying that it can be a pretty hard read, but one that’s well worth it.

Pretty sure they already got the book banned. :(

I read it and it’s an amazing book about a kid who gets bullied for being gay as well as fat and half-asian.

As a girl who grew up half-asian in the south I remember facing bullying in school for not looking like everyone else.

The book is a hard read and does deal with dark and serious topics including domestic violence, bullying, self-hatred, homophobia and racism and suicide and mental health.

But overall I thought it was an amazing book- the kind that will save a kid’s life.

Because this book was based off of the author’s real childhood experiences.

Somewhere out there is a child struggling with a very difficult childhood - one that they don’t normally see in the books they consume - and this is the kind of book that says hey you are not alone. I struggled too and even wanted to commit suicide at one point, but I got through it and I survived and kept living and things got better.

It gets better.

(Now as a middle school teacher and especially with the “don’t say gay” laws it really breaks my heart that this book and others are getting banned. I can see that I have students who really need books like these.)

no because when everything everywhere all at once said “‘alone I’m useless’ ‘everyone’s useless alone. good thing we’re not alone.’” and “in another life, i would have loved to have just done laundry and taxes with you” and “you think i am naive. i’ve been alive just as many years as you. this [love] is how i fight” and “of all the places i could be, I just want to be here with you” and-

everything everywhere all at once is about intergenerational trauma. about depression and passive suicidality and the gravitational appeal of nothingness. about aging, getting older in your twenties and getting older in your fifties. about the specific hurt mothers can cause their daughters and daughters their mothers. about the harsh reality of the immigrant experience and the american dream. but it’s mostly about kindness and family and it’s about choosing to sit at home talking about taxes with someone who loves you, and it’s about telling your daughter that you’d choose her over the entire universe, and it’s about how even in the universes where life didn’t form, love can still exist. and it’s really all of that at once.

Me reading a really good book: god this makes me wanna write

Me reading a really bad book: ugh this makes me wanna write

Me having coffee: i wanna write

Me going on a drive: i wanna write

Me doing the dishes: i wanna write

Me waking up: i wanna write

Me writing: