Whew, not gonna lie every time I see a white YA author with a YA with a brown girl on the cover I cringe a little. Like a full body wince. Just waiting for the inevitable.

I mean, yeah, you can write whatever you want but history has shown us you're prolly gonna fuck it up and then it's going to be a whole Twitter thing.

And why aren't you tired of this yet? We are.

Anyway, everyone who tweeted all excited about Winterkeep I hope you're following Melanin in YA.

Black people haven't really even gotten a chance to write their own YA fantasies yet. Give us a fucking chance.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.