About “Boricua Reads” and #ReadLatinx

 
 

#ReadLatinx

#ReadLatinx is a Twitter hashtag created by Adriana M. Martínez Figueroa in June 2018 as a way to promote books written and/or illustrated by Latinx. It was generally used to uplift voices that don’t get much needed promotion from publishers, but has become a way for Latinx creatives to find a bigger audience through social media. #ReadLatinx promotes upcoming releases with posts on social media and masterposts detailing which books come out between a certain period of time.

Can other people use #ReadLatinx?

Use it to promote books by Latinx authors/illustrators. It would be preferable if you didn’t use it to promote books that haven’t been written/illustrated by Latinx but have Latinx rep. If you’re going to talk about the hashtag, please credit me. I do all this work for free, but it takes me a long time to compile lists and write up articles and posts and I am unemployed at the moment.

Adriana M. Martínez Figueroa (boricuareads)

Adriana (they/she) is a bisexual Puerto Rican writer, editor, and sensitivity reader. They hold a B.A. from Iowa State University in Women and Gender Studies with a minor in US Latinx Studies. They’ve been an author’s assistant and are an editorial intern at Entangled Publishing. Adriana co-hosts a romance book podcast called “Mapping the Tropes.” Their words can be found on their blog (Boricua Reads), Bustle, Tor.com, and Boricua en la Luna (2019) and Até Mais: Until More, an anthology of Latinx Futurisms (2022). They live in Vega Baja with their family and three beautiful cats.

Publications by Adriana M. Martínez Figueroa

Book Reviews:

Editorials/Op-Eds:

Poetry:

  • dengue - inQluded (defunct)

  • “reusable heart” & “what is home?” - Boricua en la Luna anthology, edited by Elena M. Aponte

  • “mountain women” - Até Mais: Until More - A Latinx Futurisms Anthology, edited by Alan Chazaro, Malcolm Friend, and Kim Sousa (Forthcoming from Deep Vellum Books, 2022)

Panels/Interviews/Podcasts:

Features: