— (via karmadunutte)

do you ever think about how supergirl went from being a show that racebent jimmy olsen and presented a black man as the main love interest 

to 

kara danvers is now dating a former slave owner.

from a black man to a slave owner. DAMN. that is just…so typical CW.

and also with that specific change, their viewership went down by HALF

She said call me I’m screaming

“I was fine with all this shit until it began to direct fuck me over!” siiiiiiigh

I don’t know why people don’t seem to get that folks don’t think its okay to attack a woman of color because someone assumed she was Latinx and cast her as such.  They’re mad that a white Italian woman was cast as an explicitly non-white Latinx woman (and she calls herself non-white on the damn show) and we’re tired of Europeans (many who are brown because they…tan…just like white girls in America do) and Americans taking much needed representation from people of color who are desperately underrepresented and we’re fed up with other people using the experiences of actual people of color to deflect from any criticism.  In what world do you say that its wrong to criticize Floriana Lima’s casting because white people somewhere, probably were mean to her because of her tan just like they’re mean to Brown Latinx all of their lives…how do you even do that?  Just because someone might assume she is Latinx, because they think all Latinx are lightly tanned with dark hair, doesn’t mean every Italian woman who fits the bill is entitled to take Latinx representation.  Did Angelina Jolie get a pass for playing a woman of color because she has “exotic features” and can tan?  Floriana Lima is NOT a woman of color, she is NOT Latinx and has no ties to anything Latinx.  And people are frustrated that, yet again, a show played up their dedication to diversity and added yet another white woman. 

And if people want to excuse the show saying that its illegal to ask ethnicity if they’re casting a specific part (not exactly true but whatever helps them sleep at night) then you still have to criticize Floriana for walking into that as a white woman and getting that role.  And you can still criticize how their assumption of what a “proper Latinx” looks like led them to cast a white woman with no Latinx heritage anyways and think of what brown and black Latinx were passed up for that. 

  I don’t know how it became “the mean fandom wants to take away queer representation and attack a brown woman” (in a fandom that’s usually notorious for being hyper critical of women of color…until now…odd) when the woman isn’t Latinx but was cast to play one.  And you know they’d never cast a black woman as Latinx even when she actually IS one (ask Gina Torres about that…).  So maybe people have a reason to be perturbed by this.  Because this isn’t the first time someone has done that. 

And I don’t know, maybe its because I’m a queer woman of color, but I’m not interested in defending whitewashing just because the woman in question is our lesbian representation at the moment. 

Tl;dr: The issue isn’t whether or not she’s brown enough to play a Latina.  The issue is that she isn’t Latinx at all but was cast because she looks like a “true Latinx” should look (slight tan with dark hair and certain features).  And “she could be maybe, sorta, kinda” isn’t enough of a justification.. 

Edit: The other issue is that her character explicitly says they’re not-white.  So they cast a white woman with a tan to play non-white person, which is whitewashing.  

Well....

Melissa Benoist, who plays Kara (Supergirl), on the CW’s Supergirl is playing an American Muslim Woman in Mark Wahlberg’s new Blue Lives Matter, islamophobic, Ignorantly patriotic ilm called “Patriot’s Day”

Problem is.. Melissa Benoist is not a Muslim American. She is a white non Muslim woman portraying the role of the “supposed accomplice” to the Boston marathon bombing. Guess they couldn’t find any Muslim women willing to play a fear mongering role.

this is so gross bye

yet another generic, overly-patriotic and nationalistic movie set to placate racists and anti-islam assholes so they can feel good about their islamophobic narrative Yikes @ u melissa shoulda used half ur brain before going for this role :////

I’m quitting Femslash Fandom

When Clarke kissed Lexa in The 100, thousands of people rushed to binge-watch the show in order to catch up with the last couple episodes of the second season. Though the show had never gotten the deserved recognition for its Filipino male lead nor any kind of criticism for the blatant racism in it, suddenly a horde of white fans was rushing to hype it’s “amazing” sapphic representation before The Debacle or to criticize its biphobia/lesbophobia after it all went to shit.

When the first rumors of Alex coming out in season 2 of Supergirl started circulating, again, a myriad of fans rushed to marathon season one so they could catch up in time for the return of the show, and were quick to start stanning Alex, Kara and Maggie, though most paid no attention to James Olsen. Funnily enough, when Kara got with Mon-El, the criticism from these fans wasn’t that James/Kara had better build-up and that writing decision was blatantly anti-black; but that Kara had better chemistry with Lena, a white woman who should have been played by a disabled actress and instead had her disability completely erased. These fans don’t criticize the ableism in that choice, the racism in sidelining James or the issues with Maggie Sawyer being promoted as latina when she isn’t, yet praise Supergirl’s representation for (white, cis, thin, able bodied and neurotypical) sapphic women non-stop. The only criticism seems to be that Kara/Mon-El is happening instead of yet another white F/F ship.

Yet, though these and many other examples (Orphan Black, Jessica Jones, Agent Carter and OITNB are ones that comes to mind) show that Femslash Fandom™ is always willing to collectively flock to a new show as long as there are (white) sapphics in it, it doesn’t look like they (we?) apply the same to all media.

A common argument by white sapphics who refuse to watch racially diverse shows is that there are no sapphics in them (for example, The Get Down), or that they are treated badly (for example, Jane The Virgin). It is impossible to have a conversation about how important the racial representation in these shows is without a white sapphic jumping in to derail the conversation, so one would expect that the combination of racial diversity and sapphic representation would be a winning match for Femslash Fandom™. And yet…

As predicted by many black fans at the beginning of the season, Queen Sugar’s first season, though critically acclaimed, went almost entirely unnoticed by fandom. The show is led by a black bisexual woman and her siblings, and Nova (the lead) was shown to be kissing her girlfriend from the very first promos that aired near the beginning of 2016. The show doesn’t have homophobia, Nova is a fully fleshed character and her relationship with her female lover gets decent screentime, which is way more than The 100 could ever say about Clarke and Lexa. Yet the great majority of Femslash Fandom™ completely ignored it.

For two seasons now, fandom has also completely ignored Rosewood. From the very first episode we knew that the show had a main black lesbian happily engaged to a white bisexual woman, and the fans watching it made sure to publicize it on Tumblr and Twitter as much as they could. Yet, now in the second season and with Pippy and TMI only getting more development and screentime as time passes, I have yet to see a single Rosewood gifset crossing my dash, much less one in the many Multifandom Femslash Blogs™ I used to follow.

The first season of No Tomorrow is close to an end and, save for the tweets from my friend @tryingtosprinklealittlefairydust, I had not seen it mentioned it at all. It’s particularly strange, since it’s been almost a month since episode s01e06 aired, and one would assume that a badass, hilarious, hot pansexual Indian woman kissing a beautiful, sweet, charismatic Latina would have Femslash Fandom™ running to catch up with it before the next episode. Now, with Kareema and Sofia happily engaged, I can’t help but wonder why there is only one gifset of them together in the entire #notomorrowedit tag, and a grand total of maybe fifty gifsets for the show at all.

I shouldn’t be surprised anymore, really. It seems like lack of sapphics is always a good reason for y’all not to watch a racially diverse show, yet non-white sapphics are never a good enough reason to begin one. Following femslash blogs is an endless parade of racist white ships that exist only at the cost of black and brown men being sidelined in canon, abusive ships and content from awfully racist shows that are hailed as progressive because white sapphics get to feel good about themselves at the cost of everyone else and, the fact is, I’m often everyone else.

As a chronically ill, neurodivergent bisexual latina, I’m not content giving up every other part of my identity to feel like I can be part of a community that doesn’t give a shit about me or any other sapphic who doesn’t look like Alycia Debnam Carey or whatever over straight white actress y’all are stanning for playing a lesbian on TV this week.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

marc guggenheim: we had no more story to tell for laurel

also marc guggenheim: *brings in male vigilantes, one of whom takes over laurel’s DA position*

arrow is so progressive everyone

a brief list of anti-LGBT politicians who have accepted donations from the NRA pretending to grieve today

Hahahah so Marvel just donated 1 Million Dollars to Donald Trump and y'all aren’t even saying anything ???

Like if DC doesn’t do a small thing then everyone loses their mind but Marvel actively supports a racist bigot and it’s all cricket sounds ..

Y'all hate just to hate not because there’s a valid reason to

Marvel supports who!!!??? I thought it was about superheroes doing good… this is so disappointing…

SO it looked it up and yeah it’s appearently a thing that happend

The Flash is now giving us Wally West & Jesse Quick with their speed, Zoom as the true threat that he is, the official beggining of the iconic Barry Allen & Iris West relationship, they gave us Flashpoint, Barry is now stuck in the Speedforce & we’re most likely getting the real Jay Garrick too.

Meanwhile on Error, they killed off the Black Canary and now Diggle is shouting and shit… I think Oliver’s still trying to form something that looks like an expression… There are a few arrows flying around idk…