#Carmen Eguiluz

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Doing a rewatch on Always a witch (Siempre Bruja) and I just realised Carmen is the daugter of a real healer who was accused of witchcraft. That's actually very interesting they refrenced it.

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Black Femme Character Dependency Dark Skin Directory: C

C: The Characters

Caprice Winters GBF | Carmen Eguiluz Always a Witch | Carol Friday Night Funkin | Carol Lockhart Hunters | Carole Clarke This Is Us | Catherine Halliday Luther | Catty Noir Monster High | Celeste Bisme Lyons Years and Years | Celie Johnson The Color Purple | Chantelle Blades Passion Fish | Charlotte Page Henry Danger | Cherise High Fidelity | Chondra Unkrich YIIK: A Postmodern RPG | Clash Rainbow Six Siege | Claudia Grant Robotech | Cleo Sowande Legacies | Cleopatra Jones | Cobra Big Hero Six | Coffee Cowboy Bebop | Cocoa Cookie Cookie Run | Coco Conners Dear White People | Coco Monvoisin Serpent and Dove | Conny Spalding Two Can Play That Game | Cressida Into the Badlands | Cynthia Rose Adams Pitch Perfect

C: The Entertainers

Camille Winbush | Caroline Chikezie | Ceval Omar | Chanelletime | Charlayne Woodard | Charnele Brown | Chinenye Ezeudu | Chiquita Fuller | Christine Adams | Cicely Tyson | Coco Jones | Colette Dalal Tchantcho | Condola Rashad | Crystal Clarke

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“We fear women because they tempt, they seduce, and they think. We fear women who do not obey, who rise up, who question.”

Those lines, spoken by a priest in the beginning of Siempre Bruja’s first episode, foreshadow the “crimes” of Carmen Eguiluz, a Black enslaved woman who is burned at the stake for witchcraft in 1646. Interestingly enough, as those lines are read by the priest’s disembodied voice, the cinematography centers on Carmen as she is driven to her place of execution, standing on a cart driven by soldiers, and presented primarily through an upward camera angle which places her above the religious and military European colonist men wheeling her towards the stake. This camera angle and scene blocking emphasizes her power (which we later see to be supernatural) even as her literal agency of movement has been completely stolen by those driving the cart. Simultaneously, as the priest continues to describe Carmen’s crimes of witchcraft, he draws the connection between a Black enslaved woman’s sexuality, agency, resistance, and literal intelligence (ability to think) with evil supernatural ability, and “friend(ship) with the devil.” However, the following scene of Carmen’s successful escape, as foreshadowed by the camera angles in the beginning, presents Carmen’s witchcraft in a positive light, as resistance to racialized and gendered violence, without falling into the sensationalized stereotypes of African descended magic practices present in American Horror Story: Coven.

@theuncannypro

[tiarapea]

I’ll never forget the dream I had

I was thin and had dark skin

My hair was curly and long

I felt like a supermodel

I was wearing heals and a golden dress

With a smile that wouldn’t go away

The person I was in that dream reminded me of the character Carmen Eguiluz from Siempre Bruja/Always a Witch

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Since it’s Black History Month I decided to honor each day by paying tribute to black witches in TV & Film

February 28th

Name: Carmen Eguiluz

Portrayed By: Angely Gaviria

TV/Film: Siempre Bruja (Always a Witch)

Powers & Abilities: Time Manipulation, Spellcasting

Carmen Eguiluz is a 19 year old powerful Time Witch from the 17th century who travels to the 21st century while being burned at the stake.

[ghostsyre]

ok i can understand why people are so opposed to the background story of Siempre Bruja where Carmen is in love w/ Ponytail Slave Owner but y’all act like this shit didn’t exist????? do y’all realize that slave owners would have sexual relations (albeit some of them not consensual) with their slaves so YES it is valid that Carmen and Ponytail had a romantic relationship. no one is saying that this is right but this is when slavery was considered normal and very typical. PLUS in the second season they quickly fall out of love and in enters her new love interest Antares, who is in fact black. in all honesty i was very confused when she introduced her mom to him as her more than a friend “friend” bc there wasn’t a clear indication of them being anything more than witch acquaintances. anyway that’s my two cents i wouldn’t discourage anyone from watching the show it’s pretty good imo

[alo-bien]

Just finished Siempre Bruja S2... What an upgrade. I really think the writer's got the memo about the relationship between Carmen and Cristobal. When Carmen was like, get with the times or get out, 👌👌. I feel like S2 is how it should've been from the first season. I liked the new characters and Im happy with the way Carmen's storyline wrapped up at the end.

[tjlexx]

Angely Gaviria is so beautiful.

I just wish we got to see her natural hair on the show.

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[theravennest]

I am super happy that Carmen was able to ascend to the next level of magic and save her mom tho.

So good.

[megantheestallion]

I was now on my own, hundreds of years away from my time. Angely Gaviria as Carmen Eguiluz in Siempre Bruja (2019)

[villklovn]

Siempre Bruja

So are y’all really gonna boycott a series focused on an Afro Latina woman rocking her natural hair when it could potentially be a first step in the right direction?

It’s problematic, sure, but it has a lot of potential for great things (like, spreading Latinoameircan culture outside of America; it’s airing in Italy which is a BIG DEAL, we don’t have many Latinoamerican series here; I didn’t even know Cartagena existed and now I wanna visit it so bad).

Idk, I’d think twice about boycotting it. It might spread the message that no one would care about a movie with an Afro Latina as the main character.

I’m gonna acknowledge its flaws, but also support it for what it has done: it’s literally the first time I watch a series, a fantasy series to boot, with the lead character being a dark skin black woman who’s also Latina.

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