Hey, I love your channel & have learned of so many books to check out. My go-to is audiobooks, but I would love you to ck out this book I just read "One Night In Georgia " by Celeste O. Norfleet. If not please ck it out and give us your opinion. Thanks🙂
i agree on your statements about black/poc authors who write white love interests. i believe i saw someone mention that black/poc authors are encouraged by publishing houses to make their love interests white so their books can be more palatable which pisses me off so much. it reinforces the idea that white people are inherently more appealing/deserving of love than black/poc.
THANK YOU!!! Can’t enjoy black queer stories because the love interest is always white. Like Erin from Booked and Busy talked about this, I have yet to read a good black sapphic romance.
Especially on TV, its sooooooo annoying. I actually celebrated when a show I was watching had a black lesbian woman meet up with her lesbian couple friends and both of them were brown skinned black women
I’m currently reading Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute. I was just thinking where the hell were these books when I was a kid. As a kid my favorite genre was historical fiction because those were the only books with black kids 🤦🏾♀️ I am low key jealous of all the books available now but also super happy for todays ya.🥰 It definitely makes a difference.
We need black new adult. Honey and spice showed this. I loved the attractions and distractions series by Alexandra warren too. And young black and gifted and snowflake by Nia forester
I promised myself that the only books id buy this year would be the lily reads book club but i have been living for black YA romances like they actually have a storyline cause they don't rely on the smut... So i will be getting my hands on a couple of these
my favorite books of like the past 5 years are both black YA by Nicola Yoon because she's gonna do it for me EVERY TIME. this just makes me want to branch out and read more!!
Definitely will check out the first book--I really fell for "Charming as a Verb" and "Alleged Good Girl" so I'm here for whatever you rec that highly! I hope no one comes at you for your POV on Black love interests because the whole white love interest thing is a problem (seems like especially the guys, for some reason, straight or gay). I'm wracking my brain to think of an interracial YA romance where the male half is Black and coming up depressingly blank. Well... I know an indie fantasy like that, but you were rightly talking about trad publishing, which is always slower to wake the fuck up to the 21st century. (Aside: your skin looked luminous in the skincare routine! Serious envy.)
if you wanna be a hydration GORL, korean and japanese products got me to it. i got dry skin, so hada labo lotions and pyunkang yul moisturizers got me through it. totally scentless, so excellent to me! not too much unsolicited skincare advice, but i love skincare lol.
omg kenya!!! I'm getting as you walk on by today!! I have to skip those parts I want to go in completely blind. Great minds think alike and I love you so much!!
KENYA! I love these reading vlogs. I'm definitely interested in reading 16 & pregnant after your review of it. I really like With the Fire On High because of the teen mom representation and the importance of having a community when raising a child, in every case! Also, I agree with black authors writing black love interests! These stories are unfortunately rare. The YA books that get the most publicity are usually ones with a white main character. Black people dating people of color is the norm and has been for a long time and we need to see that more in books. Aaron from Booked and Busy discussed this a while ago. Here's a link to the video: th-cam.com/video/KLzqBo7b-3Y/w-d-xo.html
I side eye every single black author who either a) has the black characters tap dancin b) non-black love interests. Be fawkin serious pls. Like can we have SOMETHING
Remembering Kenya's rant about how YA needed to be dedunded and seeing her now pleading for more people to read YA cracks me up. Big 'never let them know your next move' energy. I get it though. Back then YA was just synonym of the same story with the same hwite characters blandy revisited by different authors
Random but I’m loving the colors in the as you walk on by cover. I kept getting peaks of the hardcover and it looks so pretty from here. Anyway, yea I don’t want to read books with a YT love interest. It’s not for me. I want all BIPOC all the time. I don’t even read that many YT authors to be honest with you. That 16 & pregnant books sound right up my alley.
To be honest, I'm not one to gravitate towards stories of black trauma or black struggles but I don't write them off. I'd read them if recommended but I don't seek them. I don't know for everyone else but my problem is not so much that I th9nk black people who don't fit respectability politics don't deserve representation. But the stories they are usually uplifted almost always revolves around black people suffering and being miserable because they're black and it's so hard. I get that this narrative is important and need to be told. But there's not enough balance. There's not enough books pushed to the front about black prople just doing stuff and riding dragons and being joyful and being in love and going on adventures and going through struggles not because they are black but just because life be hard and it gets depressing sometimes. Those are the stories I seek above all. It feels very voyeuristic the way prople only care about black stories when they are being stripped naked, all scars and wounds exposed. I want that, but I also want more. And I want authors to freely write about all facettes of blackness and still be successful, supported and promoted
Oh sorry to double post, but I meant to ask... so this new "Spice Road" book. Is "Whoever controls the spice controls the Kingdom at large" its tag line for real?! Damn, that's some bald-face cribbing from "Dune." (Famously, "He who controls the spice controls the universe.") Surprised the publisher would be that blatant just changing up a few of the nouns. Maybe I'll write an epic fantasy and advertise it as “Two Rings to lead them all, Two Rings to find them, Two Ring to catch them all. and in the nighttime bind them."
110% agree on POC authors writing POC love interests
Hey, I love your channel & have learned of so many books to check out. My go-to is audiobooks, but I would love you to ck out this book I just read "One Night In Georgia " by Celeste O. Norfleet. If not please ck it out and give us your opinion. Thanks🙂
I love how your videos are an hour long. Yessss, entertain us corporate WFH girlies while we're working hard/hardly working 😂
Yes!!!!!!!
i agree on your statements about black/poc authors who write white love interests. i believe i saw someone mention that black/poc authors are encouraged by publishing houses to make their love interests white so their books can be more palatable which pisses me off so much. it reinforces the idea that white people are inherently more appealing/deserving of love than black/poc.
THANK YOU!!! Can’t enjoy black queer stories because the love interest is always white. Like Erin from Booked and Busy talked about this, I have yet to read a good black sapphic romance.
“The stars and the blackness between them” is one of my favourite queer YA books
Especially on TV, its sooooooo annoying. I actually celebrated when a show I was watching had a black lesbian woman meet up with her lesbian couple friends and both of them were brown skinned black women
I’m currently reading Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute. I was just thinking where the hell were these books when I was a kid. As a kid my favorite genre was historical fiction because those were the only books with black kids 🤦🏾♀️ I am low key jealous of all the books available now but also super happy for todays ya.🥰 It definitely makes a difference.
We need black new adult. Honey and spice showed this. I loved the attractions and distractions series by Alexandra warren too. And young black and gifted and snowflake by Nia forester
Black new adult is the best genre! I can’t get enough of it.
Your reaction after explaining the plot of As You Walk By had me on the floor omg
I promised myself that the only books id buy this year would be the lily reads book club but i have been living for black YA romances like they actually have a storyline cause they don't rely on the smut... So i will be getting my hands on a couple of these
When I tell you all the covers are gorgeous and I fully plan to read every single one
This is my favourite channel of yours and I’m on your main and Patreon. I look forward to your videos every. single. day thank you Kenya!!❤️
I recommend Claire Kann and Camryn Garrett for Black queer love stories! I do consider myself a connoisseur of Black YA🤭
my favorite books of like the past 5 years are both black YA by Nicola Yoon because she's gonna do it for me EVERY TIME. this just makes me want to branch out and read more!!
Definitely will check out the first book--I really fell for "Charming as a Verb" and "Alleged Good Girl" so I'm here for whatever you rec that highly! I hope no one comes at you for your POV on Black love interests because the whole white love interest thing is a problem (seems like especially the guys, for some reason, straight or gay). I'm wracking my brain to think of an interracial YA romance where the male half is Black and coming up depressingly blank. Well... I know an indie fantasy like that, but you were rightly talking about trad publishing, which is always slower to wake the fuck up to the 21st century.
(Aside: your skin looked luminous in the skincare routine! Serious envy.)
I was JUST looking to see if you uploaded anything. Yay!!
I am absolutely with you when it comes to POC authors writing white love interests. I feel like we have limited literature with POC on POC love
"All to RARE." That statement alone is crazy to me
I agree wholeheartedly , you are not in the minority about poc authors and representation
I felt this way about a proposal they can't refuse.
@34:24 mindy, come to the front! people are getting a bit too nasty with her on twitter, but they have a point!
Been saying table of contents need to make a comeback
if you wanna be a hydration GORL, korean and japanese products got me to it. i got dry skin, so hada labo lotions and pyunkang yul moisturizers got me through it. totally scentless, so excellent to me! not too much unsolicited skincare advice, but i love skincare lol.
I get majority of my black YA recommendations from Kenya. Haven't been disappointed yet
omg kenya!!! I'm getting as you walk on by today!! I have to skip those parts I want to go in completely blind. Great minds think alike and I love you so much!!
I love that the book Kenya liked the least is the one I want to read the most
I absolutely agree about the mass amounts of white diluting in black love and acceptance. I kind of felt like I was alone in that
KENYA! I love these reading vlogs. I'm definitely interested in reading 16 & pregnant after your review of it. I really like With the Fire On High because of the teen mom representation and the importance of having a community when raising a child, in every case! Also, I agree with black authors writing black love interests! These stories are unfortunately rare. The YA books that get the most publicity are usually ones with a white main character. Black people dating people of color is the norm and has been for a long time and we need to see that more in books. Aaron from Booked and Busy discussed this a while ago. Here's a link to the video: th-cam.com/video/KLzqBo7b-3Y/w-d-xo.html
I side eye every single black author who either a) has the black characters tap dancin b) non-black love interests.
Be fawkin serious pls. Like can we have SOMETHING
Remembering Kenya's rant about how YA needed to be dedunded and seeing her now pleading for more people to read YA cracks me up. Big 'never let them know your next move' energy. I get it though. Back then YA was just synonym of the same story with the same hwite characters blandy revisited by different authors
Random but I’m loving the colors in the as you walk on by cover. I kept getting peaks of the hardcover and it looks so pretty from here.
Anyway, yea I don’t want to read books with a YT love interest. It’s not for me. I want all BIPOC all the time. I don’t even read that many YT authors to be honest with you. That 16 & pregnant books sound right up my alley.
the thing about most queer books having to have white love interest without fail clock their tea!!!!!
To be honest, I'm not one to gravitate towards stories of black trauma or black struggles but I don't write them off. I'd read them if recommended but I don't seek them. I don't know for everyone else but my problem is not so much that I th9nk black people who don't fit respectability politics don't deserve representation. But the stories they are usually uplifted almost always revolves around black people suffering and being miserable because they're black and it's so hard. I get that this narrative is important and need to be told. But there's not enough balance. There's not enough books pushed to the front about black prople just doing stuff and riding dragons and being joyful and being in love and going on adventures and going through struggles not because they are black but just because life be hard and it gets depressing sometimes. Those are the stories I seek above all. It feels very voyeuristic the way prople only care about black stories when they are being stripped naked, all scars and wounds exposed. I want that, but I also want more. And I want authors to freely write about all facettes of blackness and still be successful, supported and promoted
Yay!
Oh sorry to double post, but I meant to ask... so this new "Spice Road" book. Is "Whoever controls the spice controls the Kingdom at large" its tag line for real?! Damn, that's some bald-face cribbing from "Dune." (Famously, "He who controls the spice controls the universe.") Surprised the publisher would be that blatant just changing up a few of the nouns. Maybe I'll write an epic fantasy and advertise it as “Two Rings to lead them all, Two Rings to find them, Two Ring to catch them all. and in the nighttime bind them."
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let's hope she doesn't spoil the books in this video LMAOOOOO
you shouldn't be touching books/doorknobs/pick at your braces while doing skincare kenya noooo you need your hands clean