Most people were using it to educate on the impact of slurs being used. I’ve watched many videos talking about it, and nowhere did anyone talk about cancelling her. Much like many of these discussions, immediately people started to talk about the criticism as being bullying. They didn’t want others to be in that position. The TikTokers who had recorded those first videos were caught offguard. People continued to talk about it – mind you, the entire point of the original videos was to educate Latine readers, so they could decide if they wanted to read Drive, or her other works. Her Mexican friend had read it, and said it was okay. And Kate Stewart began to defend herself. (And as a biracial Mex-Am woman, you can bet I’ve got an opinion on that)Ĭritics talked about the harm that including this perpetuates, that it seemed wholly unnecessary in the context of the book. The book’s MC is a Latina who doesn’t identify as being Mexican-American, but rather prefers to be called Latina since she’s half-white. My FYP (For You Page, for the uninitiated) has been taken up with discussion about romance author Kate Stewart, and criticism after it was discovered that an early book of hers had a Latina lead, and included a racial slur against the Latine community. Mostly because I was looking for more books with Latine characters. I spend a lot of my time on TikTok, and I’ve found myself on the outskirts of BookTok.
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