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Amanda shares: Last week while in the grocery store, our 5 yr old daughter Macy, home from Ethiopia almost three years, grabbed the latest issue of “O” magazine off the rack and yells, “MOMMA, LOOK! THIS LADY HAS BIG HAIR JUST LIKE ME!”. Made me (and everyone else in line) giggle. Love that my girl is proud of her big, free hair!
Representation in the media matters!!!
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not to CONTINUE to bitch about fatphobia in creative circles, but! knowing how to recognize and call out that shit is a good first step, but folks really need to get over their fear of depicting characters with any body fat whatsoever. i’m so sick of six packs and sharp jawlines, i’m so sick of huge tits and asses and skinny waists, start giving characters pudgy faces and stomachs and limbs or i’m going to start biting people
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gays aren't "starved for representation" you just refuse to watch anything that isn't a marvel movie
"but gay representation still hardly exists in the mainstream" gay rep will NEVER exist in the mainstream if you don't support indie lgbt projects, if you don't prove the demand for depth for complexity for love, if you don't just fucking google actual lgbt films
seeing a couple people on this post talking about how there's no media about lgbt people of colour. here's a list of over 100 films with lgbt protagonists of colour.
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Okay like something that really bothers me is that people (white latino people specifically) have been saying stuff like “shout out to Pepa for being a light skinned latino & I feel the need to really bang my head up against the wall
Because as much as I love Pepa, having a light skinned latino isn’t as “revolutionary” as you think it is???? Why???? Because literally most of latino rep IS light skinned latinos like literally here you go here’s the fucking proof that it’s literally the standard look for latinos in the media
having light skinned latinos isn’t anything new & the fact that I see more praise for Pepa then I do for Felix, Dolores, Antonio & hell even fucking Camilo (bc guess what!!! He’s lightskinned too!!! But I wonder why you don’t want to talk abt the Afro latino child 🧐🧐🧐 like he’s only a few shades darker than Pepa)
Like this is one of the few animated Disney films set around latino culture & the first one to include Afro latinos…so maybe instead of being colorist & being like “oh finally a light skinned latino!” You should realize that’s it’s already the standard & that dark skinned latinos are the ones that need more representation not us.
#always for queue#honestly#if anything i like what pepa represents#i even saw some reactors on youtube asking ''~whose child is pepa'' lol like#this is why it's so important for people to learn how genetics actually work#but also#the fact that she came from brown parents and wasn't worried about having dark-skinned children#or a dark skinned black husband#mixed couples QUAKING rn#the amount of latino friends ive had where the have biological white siblings or white parents making them feel bad about their brownness#thank you disney#encanto#colorism#racism#representation
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starting a compilation,,,,
Look at the babies y’all!!!!!!! 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
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I just want to indulge in my favorite fantasies without the reminder that most people don’t even think of people like me existing as an OPTION.
It’s exhausting & depressing & other feelings I don’t have words for.
White folk get to just inherently exist EVERYWHERE from reality to Sci-fi , to Fantasy & so on...
I have to manifest myself into existing in fantasy all while struggling to exist in reality.
#always for queue#representation#i cant get over ''well they werent in this region''#''not everyone can be represented''#''youre imagining that this villainous creature has black features''#i cannot possibly make people understand how jarring it is#to be erased from fictional universes -- good bad and what have you
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black kids deserve a coming of a age teenage love movie where violence or drugs aren’t the plot
sadsadiesworld
Please.
queens-n-roses
Say that shit again louder for the people in the back
You gotta say it for the white people in front cause they’re the ones making all the movies
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little native girls deserve better than a disney movie that romanticized colonization
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All of these women are Jewish. Let’s not erase that.
acynicalunicorn
NO ONE GIVES A FUCK IF THEY’RE JEWISH OR HISPANIC OR WHITE OR BLACK OR ASIAN OR MUSLIM OR HINDU, WHY CAN’T WE JUST APPRECIATE THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS.
because representation is important, and not to mention that two of these women are actively practicing jews
mayim bialik is a modern orthodox jewish woman who would read the torah on set between filming scenes for The Big Bang Theory, and natalie portman grew up studying at jewish schools and speaks hebrew, and often speaks about how important judaism is to her in interviews
i’m a jewish girl and i “give a fuck” that these cool ladies are all jewish too
recognizing that facts takes nothing away from their achievements: if anything, it makes those achievements even grander when you consider they all belong to an extreme minority that has been shunned and faced hatred around the world
not to mention that Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-Jewish woman inventing this tech and starring in movies during the era of Nazi fucking Germany
so that’s why stating their ethnicity matters
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it’s depressing seeing all these coming of age films with white girls who are allowed to experiment with their outfits and have a fun soundtrack and the whole tone of the film is lighthearted like why can’t non white girls have more films that are like that? sometimes i just wanna see a group of cute black girls dance to crew with pink lighting covering them or something idk
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To those who say that whitewashing in Hollywood isn’t a thing:
- Irene from the movie Drive was Latina in the original novel, and her name was Irina. Carey Mulligan, a white woman, was cast in the part without an audition.
- The movie A Beautiful Mind is based on a true story. In real life, however, Alicia Nash, John Nash’s wife, is from El Salvador. She was portrayed in the film by Jennifer Connolly, a white woman.
- 30 Days of Night was based on a comic book miniseries. In the comics, however, the main character, Eben Olemaun, is an Inuit man. Futhermore, the town of Barrow, Alaska is described as being 57% Native American, 22% White, and yet in the movie, only one Inuit character was featured. You can’t tell me that all of those Caucasian extras were hired on acting ability, they don’t even talk.
- The movie 21 is based on a true story, in which most of the participants of the casino scam were Asian-American. In the movie, however, the main characters were white, and the Asian-American characters were poorly developed and badly written.
- They cast a white kid as Goku in Dragonball.Seriously. That happened.
- Dastan from Prince of Persia should have been, shocking, a Persian guy. Or, more specifically, probably Iranian. He was instead portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal, who is white. Nobody in the movie was actually Middle Eastern, if I’m not mistaken, and the movie took place in the middle of the goddamn Persian Empire, where there probably weren’t a whole lot of white people walking around. Just sayin’.
- In Isaac Marion’s book Warm Bodies, Nora was half-Ethiopian. In the movie, she’s white.
- Every single person in the goddamn The Last Airbender movie should have been Asian. The entire series was based on Asian mythologies, borrowed heavily from Asian culture, and should have been immensely culturally diverse. Instead, all of the main characters were white, except for the villains. The characters who hailed from the Fire Nation, particularly Prince Zuko, Commander Zhao, and General Iroh, were portrayed by Indian people.
- Katniss Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, and a large portion of the other inhabitants of the Seam were described as being “olive-skinned, black-haired, and gray-eyed.” Katniss and Seeder, the Tribute from District 11, were described in the books as having similar skin tones, and Seeder was portrayed in the movie as a black woman. Even then, the casting call sent out for Katniss sought out a Caucasian actress. They didn’t even consider women that actually fit the description of Katniss from the books.
But, I mean, the best actor always wins out, right? Whitewashing is a myth, right, it doesn’t actually happen.
Meanwhile,
- Angel Coulby, a black woman, was heavily criticized for portraying Guinevere in Merlin, a character traditionally played by a white woman. She did audition for this part.
- Donald Glover, a black man, received ridiculous amounts of scrutiny and negative attention for being linked to the part of Peter Parker, a traditionally white character.
But it’s their talent that matters, right?
Nobody’s criticizing Benedict Cumberbatch, especially not after learning that he was basically duped into accepting the part of Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness. Dude’s crazy talented. He’ll probably win an Oscar for something or another eventually.
The crazy talented Indian actor who could have played Khan, a Northern Indian character, and received mainstream exposure and a possible launchpad for his career, however? He won’t.
alwaysbewoke
this is for white people. just come out and say it because black and brown people already know ALL THIS. the target are those drowning in white ignorance.
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Wonder Woman made women everywhere feel so strong so brave so powerful.
Black Panther made black people from every culture every continent feel such pride such happiness such warmth.
Love, Simon has made lgbt+ people from the youngest to the old feel understood feel overjoyed feel magic.
It’s more than just a movie.
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It’s our black thing and it’s uniting all blacks in the world. #Wakanda forever.
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ROMANCE BLACK WOMEN GADDAMMIT!!!!
In romcoms. In coming of age stories. In dramas, fantasies, scifis.
Romance. Black. Women.
And not just the same ones we see all the time. The ones fit for white consumption. Romance tall ones. Romance darkskinned ones. Romance fat ones. Ones with no eurocentric features whatsoever. Ones that look like GOAT Serena Williams. Ones with natural hair. Ones that combine any of the features shown above.
Romance. Black. Women.
Let us be damsels in distress. Let us wear beautiful dresses only seen in the most epic fairy tales. Let us be looked at as if the whole universe would fall apart if we did not exist. Let us be ethereal. Let us be the inspiration of epic ballads and poems. Ones that stand the test of time. Let us have multiple suitors, of every race and gender, vying to be our beloved.
Romance. Black. Women.
We are not just sidekicks. Or mammies. Or background characters. Or sacrificial pawns. We deserve respect. Reverence. Devotion. Love. And we deserve it now. Not some trickle down left over piss that it will take 20 years to get to. NOW.
Romance. Black. Women.
And this includes my trans black sistas as well. You are not forgotten. You deserve all the above and more.
Bringing this back on VDay to bring blessings to all black women.
#friendship#representation#I literally can't care less if you hate straight ships also#if that shit has a black woman at the very least be salty I#in silence#u haven't half the idea the shit I've had to see#from people being disgusted with michonne for breaking the#to black women characters flat out being shunted and cycled through boyfriends just to avoid romantic tension with a Favorable Male Characte
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I’m here for all of this
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Representation matters! 💕