Queer Love Interests of Color and the White Gaze 

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this paragraph

So many important points

[image description: two screencaps of tweets by @AshiaMonet, reading “I wrote an article about the trend of white authors using queer love interests of color as little more than Diversity Points, in an otherwise white-focused narrative” and “I didn’t call out specific books/authors because, even though they exist, I wanted to focus more on the trend itself and instead of portraying the idea that the problem is limited to select books. It isn’t. It’s a widespread issue.” It is followed by a screencap of the article linked above.]