Sylvia Plath was right

About what?

“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording —all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”

2018 YA Reads by Authors of Color

#PrettyBoy Must Die by Kimberly Reid - A CIA prodigy’s cover is blown when he accidentally becomes an internet sensation, inspired by the #Alexfromtarget story.

96 Words of Love by Rachel Roy & Ava Dash - James Patterson Presents a modern retelling of a classic Indian legend, 96 Words for Love is a touching coming-of-age story that reads like Eat, Pray, Love for teens.

500 Words or Less by Juleah del Rosario - To redefine her reputation senior year, Nic Chen begins writing their college admissions essays. But the more essays Nic writes for other people, the less sure she becomes of herself, and whether her moral compass even points north anymore.

After the Shot Drops by Randy Ribar - A powerful novel about friendship, basketball, and one teen’s mission to create a better life for his family in the tradition of Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers.   

A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena - When half-Hindu, half-Parsi school troublemaker Zarin Wadia dies in a car crash with a boy named Porus, no one in her South Asian community in Jeddah is surprised—what else would you expect from a girl like that?

A Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi -  After their home in Syria is bombed, Tareq and family seek refuge, first with extended family in Raqqa, a stronghold for the militant group, Daesh, and then abroad.

A Reaper At the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes #3) by Sabaa Tahir - Within the Empire, the threat of war looms, putting Laia, Helene, and Elias at risk. 

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings edited by Ellen Oh & Elsie Chapman - 15 bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate. 

All of This is True by Lygia Day Penaflor - Four privileged Long Island teens befriend their favorite YA author with disastrous results.

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell - A historical-fiction anthology shines the spotlight on queer teens, from as far back as the 1300s to the 21st century.

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checking out several of these 😍

Today, I learned an important lesson from my therapist.

At the end of our hour, she told me that although I’ve been hurt and broken badly, she can see I still have parts that aren’t shattered.  I laughed lightly and I said “Yeah, one day that will be all of me, no parts shattered anymore”, And she said “No, it won’t.”

And, for a second, I felt my heart break - but she continued. “But it will be the most dominant part of you. Think of your body - if you break your shoulder, even after it heals it will be tender. It will be a sore spot. You will be careful with it. There will be a gentleness when you care for it. If you crack a rib, laughing will hurt and, even after there is no longer a fracture, you may laugh lighter just in case. You can heal, but it is okay to be aware of the parts of you that once hurt the most. The most important thing to know is that where there is tenderness, let there be gentleness.”

08/21/18

Kelly Marie Tran Speaks Out For The First Time Since Racist Attacks

“My real name is Loan. And I am just getting started.”

“I don’t want to live in a world where adolescent children of color are wishing to be white.”

Say it again and again and again

Noah Centineo photographed by Taylor Miller for Buzzfeed, August 2018

let’s be honest, the most iconic part of the whole movie was when Peter called Josh a “Bon Iver wannabe” that’s the moment I knew I stanned

I ADORED To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before 💓

Peter ‘woah woah woah’ Kavinsky

I am way better looking than that guy.

Noah Centineo as Peter Kavinsky in To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Music in Film: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before (2018) dir. Susan Johnson 

i watched crazy rich asians and to all the boys i’ve loved before in one weekend what a time for an asian hoe like myself to be alive

The biggest lessons for 2017

I learned that love doesn’t fix people. Giving love won’t fix another person and receiving love from another person won’t fix me. I learned that love is either freely given or disingenuous all together. I learned to never do anything for a man that he wouldn’t do for me. I learned that what I allow will continue. I learned that I am capable of giving my absolute all to make it “work” when I love someone. I learned that just because I love someone deeply, doesn’t mean I need to be with them if nothing else feels right. I learned that I can’t earn love. But overall I learned that I’m capable of a level of intimacy that I never thought existed. I’m hurting now but I know I will be smarter when I fall in love again someday. And that someone who really loves me back will love every part of who I am. I undoubtedly know now for the first time that that type of love exists out there because I have now loved someone else that way. Before this year, I did not believe I could love another person the way I needed to in order to commit to them wholeheartedly. Now I know I underestimated my heart. In 2017 I learned I am capable of loving and soon I will learn I am capable of moving on.

“When people show you who they are, believe them.”

naturally, instead of doing homework, i spent an hour making this english major alignment chart. tag yourself!

when you realize that your feelings don’t even come within approximation to love and are just a combination of intense idolization/extreme infatuation and the person you claim to be into is actually just a canvas in which you can project idealized values that you yourself admire and wish to be associated with