#also there's something funny about the white feminist girl nicknaming herself after clary shadowhunters sdjhgkjfdg
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2022 reads // twitter thread
The [Un]Popular Vote
YA contemporary about a trans boy who decides to run for student president after witnessing homophobic bullying at his new school
while keeping the fact that he's trans hidden, because of his politician father
#The [Un]Popular Vote#aroaessidhe 2022 reads#now I think this is pretty good actually!#i 100% read this for ace and aro side characters also#which i think is done pretty well? definitely a minor thing but it's the MCs best friends and it's brought up more than once for both of the#*them#the stupid lie about his dad being dead is like. this is clearly for plot conflict reasons it would have been easy to come up with a less sh#shitty lie lmao??? you can just say 'my dad is shit and my parents are divorced'#also i feel like so many YAs with shitty political parents they're always republican and it always feels like it's handled badly#and they're too forgiven by the narrative. so it's nice(?) to have one who's a democrat bc like. all rich american politicians r like that#AND he's still not forgiven by the narrative bc hes shit#it does definitely try to be about realising politics is all empty promises and change doesn't come from the top and community is the most#important. which i think is better than most political ya i feel#also there's something funny about the white feminist girl nicknaming herself after clary shadowhunters sdjhgkjfdg#I would not have read it if not for checking aspec characters tho god american politics....american high school.......
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