Writer & Educator

In Mayra Lazara Dole’s1 Down to your bone tissue (2012) Laura, a Cuban-American senior school junior, is forced to come-out whenever her Catholic college teacher reads Laura’s personal texts to her gf aloud into the entire course. As being outcome, Laura is humiliated, kicked away from college, and asked by her mom to go out of their property. Dole’s description of Laura’s coming-out is significant, among multiple reasons, since it focuses a Latina lesbian protagonist. Inspite of the increased understanding for the necessity of diverse children’s literature many gaps still exist—diversity in queer and YA that is gay being among those gaps. A resistance and aversion commonly experienced by Latina lesbian down to the Bone remains one of the few YA novels with a Latina lesbian character written by a Latina/o author.2 The lack of availability or awareness of books like these signals.

Certainly, here is the situation in Dole’s novel. Laura’s mom is especially aggressive about perhaps perhaps not Laura that is accepting as lesbian.Read More