Across social media, it’s clear that many fans are interested in giving Bad Bunny grace as he navigates what is a very complex negotiation of being a massively successful, politically radical Puerto Rican icon in the cultural sphere. And the people interviewed in this story agree that race or ethnicity shouldn’t dictate who someone could be in a relationship with. Yet, Like Garcia Hernandez points out, we are also aware that the colonial politics of desirability that privilege non-Latine white women (and, in many cases, white Latinas, too) tend to leave darker-skinned Latinas, and other women of color, shortchanged, and it makes sense that we may be in a process of reconsidering how much of our time, love, and energy to give to him now.