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A lot of YA books aren’t actually YA, they’re fantasy written by women/women of color/queer folks and thus not viewed as “worthy” of an adult audience the way that fantasy written by their white male counterparts is viewed.

IS ANYBODY ELSE AWAKE BC IM LOSING MY GODDAMN MIND

I fucking love this little bit jenny does about football sdkjfhkdsjhfks

Homosexuality was identified as a danger to Nazi society and the Nazi regime attempted to eliminate it. Willem Arondeus and Frieda Belinfante were two openly gay Dutch artists who joined the anti-Nazi resistance. They helped Jews escape arrest and deportation to the concentration camps.  In 1943, they led a group which destroyed the Nazi records office in Amsterdam so that Nazis could not identify local Jews. Frieda managed to escape by dressing up as a male. She hid in Switzerland and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1947. Willem, however, was captured and executed. Before being hanged, his final words were: “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards!”

Imagine being so racist and so comfortable in your white privilege that you actually say this aloud to black customers.

Avatar:TheLastAirbender|Book Two:“Tales of Ba Sing Se”