Hey guys. So today I wanted to talk about something pretty important. By the title you can probably imagine what this is about. And maybe you have heard/read many things about whitewashing in the book universe or posts about the current news about Hollywood and their awful movies. But yeah I'm here to talk about that and it's sad to say this happens not only in Hollywood, but also in the book community.

Whitewashing for me is horrible. And mainly because, I don't know if you know, but I'm Mexican and sometimes people in the book community forget about a character who is Mexican/Latinx and when they cast them in their "book edits/graphics" in Tumblr, or do book/character aesthetics, they cast them with white models/actors/etc. I'm sure some of them don't mean it or are unaware of them doing it accidentally. But it happens A LOT.


They're not even that many POC characters in books, and when there are, some suffer horrible transformations in Tumblr graphics like changing their ethnicity.


Example 1. This is a graphic I made for the wanderlust book The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig. And in the book there is a character who goes by the name of Kash. And he is Persian.

"His golden skin shone, flushed with exertion, and I suppose, victory."