Jan. 16th, 2018

rainwaterspark: Moon Knight from Moon Knight (2021) title page, drawn by Alessandro Cappuccio (assassin's creed iii bow and arrow)
...where we celebrate white authors for writing a book that has two white leads, "but the secondary characters are all people of color!!"

This is such a minimum bar of representation that I feel like we really shouldn't give white authors cookies for, considering how overwhelmingly white LGBTQIAP+ romance is.

If you're a reader of color, and you feel empowered by a secondary character who's a PoC? More power to you. But if you're a white reader, please don't hold this up as "great representation for PoC." I'm not nearly as moved seeing an Asian secondary character as I am seeing an Asian protagonist or love interest.

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