#afro latina actress

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Jaylen Barron as “ Trish” in blindspotting

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Naya Marie Rivera:  January 12, 1987

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To those who say that The Acolyte cannot be the victim of racism-related hatred because of the main actors of Andor, Mandalorian and Ahsoka make me slowly laugh.

Diego Luna may be Mexican, but he's sort of white-skinned. Pedro Pascal is under a fucking mask the majority of the time, and Ahsoka may be an Afro Latina actress is a character who was basically one in the animation, being part of an alien race. Natasha Liu Bordizzo also plays a person who was originally in animation with a fanbase that already existed.

You may think that all this does not play a role in public perception, particularly racist in terms of their tolerance, but you are wrong (especially in the reception of an animated character compared to live action like with Sabine). On the contrary, it plays a huge role in their criticism. And precisely, thanks to that they can hide behind the excuse of not being racist.

Amandla is a black woman who play a completely new character. She pulls the triple hat for the worst of the worst in Star Wars fandom. Namely the sexist criticisms and the misogynistic criticisms, and criticizes of the untouchable Lore / what they think Star Wars is supposed to be, which all combine together.

Without forgetting that the one who makes the show is also a woman, a lesbian on top of that, who inevitably infuses her vision into Star Wars.

Stop acting like it doesn't matter.

And hiding behind the fact that many love Qimir and want the continuation of his story to make people believe that there is no racism linked to Amandla forgets some details on this subject.

Literally, these people completely remove the female character, Osha, from Qimir, while you can't tell his story by removing the girl. The characters work together and not separately. They don't understand that the essence of Qimir's character is linked to Osha. And obviously they don't understand that he's more complex than a Sith either.

These people who only focus on Many don't understand the character at all. Most also have misogynistic remarks towards Osha / Amandla.

So, frankly, taking those who specifically focus on Qimir as a standard to prove that there is no racism, only shows their incompetence in analysis and understanding of media, without forgetting the other horrible side that this show has had to face ; misogyny.

Be realistic, the show suffered a huge hate campaign well before its release and therefore the slightest trace of the storyline !

And yes, the storyline of The Acolyte is not perfect, but that is far from the main reason why the show is criticized ! A little realism and objectivity, please !

It's to the point that there is a counter-petition to prove that people don't want The Acolyte to be renewed, and sorry for the haters, but the numbers painfully prove you otherwise.

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introducing . . .

˙ . ꒷ 🎀 . 𖦹˙— 🧸 LCVEBUNNIES

( sixteen / september virgo rising, virgo sun, aquarius moon / afro-latina / she.her / written by lynn painter )

hihiiii !! my name is charlotte emilie but you all can call me either char, lottie, emi, or whichever one you prefer! i’ve been on tumblr && shifttok since 2020 but haven’t posted anything shifting wise (on here). since tiktok is possibly getting banned, i would love to find some other shifters on here!

my main drs are hollow boys dr, river styx heathens dr, like us series dr, twisted games dr, too many boys of tommen drs to count, better cr dr, nepo baby dr, the naturals dr, youtuber dr, influencer dr, popstar dr, smallville dr, actress dr, obx dr, marvel dr, teen fame dr, && adult fame dr.

( pinterest / insta / wattpad / tiktok )

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i don't believe i've posted this yet (SHOCKINGLY), but i recently started paper mario and the thousand year door-- at this stage i've nearly finished, the final chapter looms. while i was playing religiously, i drew human designs for the main crew (and adjusted mario's design to fit the vibe)!

design notes under the cut:

first, ms. mowz. most people draw her as a younger girl, but the way she talks gave me an early-thirties impression! i think she's a bit of a wine aunt, and flirty, but smart as a whip and extra cunning beneath.

flurrie! i adore her, it wasn't difficult at all to capture her design the way i wanted it. in this interpretation, she's afro-latina, and a famous actress AND singer.

goombella, the archaeology student and little snarker of the crew! i wanted to give her that tough goomba-ish vibe while displaying aspects of her femininity through her ponytail and the cute bunny logo on her shirt.

mario! there wasn't much to Humanify, so i mostly did the work of making him look like a tired italian uncle who's a hard worker and a little bit too casual at times, but very friendly and comforting.

ohhh, vivian. while she is usually drawn very round and feminine in most human designs, i wanted to give her a broader, slightly more angular look to demonstrate that she isn't completely comfortable or finished with her transition yet. and frankly i can't blame her, being under her sisters' thumb and all.

koops, my beloved koops! his backpack carries most of mario's inventory. his damaged eyelid was inflicted in the scuffle that resulted in his father being taken by hooktail, but he's still very proud of it-- it means he survived.

junior, aka the baby yoshi, i designed to be a bit of a punk kid. the youngest of the party by far at 12 or 13, he's supposed to be transmasc. don't let his spindly frame fool you, he can pack a serious wallop! (his crop top says "GREAT" on the front and "GONZALES" on the back. nerd.)

and last but not least, BOBBERY! oh i love this guy. just three lines of that letter his wife wrote brought me near tears, it's unfair. he was designed with scruffiness in mind, meant to look intimidating right up until he starts talking. he teaches junior swears. Nobody Likes This.

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i saw a post you made about catwoman where you mentioned that she was always white in the comics and i wanted to come in and refute that! catwoman has been portrayed on and off in the comics as afro-latina (often specifically cuban) for a while now. in animated series like harley quinn and dc super hero girls (and the comics that go with them) shes been portrayed as black

also in the 1960s batman show, catwoman was portrayed by three different actresses! in seasons 1 and 2 she was portrayed by julie newmar (a white woman) and then in the third season she was portrayed by eartha kitt. in the film adaptation of the show she was portrayed by lee meriwether (another white woman)

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Hey thanks for this!!! I don't know where that post is right now but hopefully it comes up when I tag catwoman on this ask.

now I'm gonna paste some pix of black Catwomen

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halle berry/catwoman

mod ali

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hii maybe you can do a sev w a spanish reader!!!!

I see you talk it a little?

lovelovelove

sure! i should give a quick disclaimer before i do this tho: i'm not latina or hispanic! (i'm irish american, so i'm very white haha) so if i get anything wrong-- language or culture or anything-- please let me know, and i'll fix it asap!

men and minors dni

sevika would love hearing you speak spanish. on the phone with your family, or when you're out with your friends, or even sometimes to other spanish speakers you encounter in public.

she's never really thought about it before, but once she meets you she swears spanish is the most beautiful language.

(it's just because you speak it and you're beautiful.)

she's constantly having you teach her words and phrases and using them in conversation, looking at you with an anxious little smile each time she does until you praise her and tell her she did great.

if it's your native language, sevika starts taking night classes. she wants you to feel comfortable at home with her, so even if she can't speak it perfectly, she learns enough that she can at least understand you when you speak.

if you call her a spanish pet name, she'll melt. mi amor, mi vida, and mi corazon are her faves.

(she also loves calling you mamacita. she's ridiclious i love her)

i'm most familiar with chilean spanish, and i love guagua-- a chilean pet name. it means baby. (i know guagua also means bus in some countries, so i don't wanna confuse anyone haha) but if you taught this word to her, she'd use it for you all the time.

sevika's voice actress is afro-latina, so there's a chance her character could speak spanish as well.

how cute would that be? she'd only speak spanish with you, like it's your own secret language.

in public, she'd talk shit to you about people pissing her off in spanish right in front of their faces. you'd have to bite your lip to keep from bursting into laughter and betraying your conversation.

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Jaylen Barron as Shayanna Jenkins in American Sports Story ( SZN 1 EP1)

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hello! hope ur having a nice day! could you help me find a fc?

im looking for an afro latina (preferably afro cuban) with acting resources where she looks 18-25. bianca santos vibes preferably too!

tysm !!

𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤 𝙯𝙚𝙥. 𝙞 '𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮 𝙖 𝙜𝙖𝙢𝙚. this feels... soooooo messy to me, please forgive how potentially confusing the ethnicities here might be! i tried finding as many Afro-Latina faces as i could in the specified age range for you 🫶🏻

Ash Santos ( 1993, actress, half Dominican && half Puerto Rican )

Bianca Santos ( 1990, actress, half Brazilian including African && half Cuban )

Bruna Marquezine ( 1995, actress, Brazilian including Black and unspecified Indigenous Peoples )

Damaris Goddrie ( 1997, model, unspecified Afro-Latina )

Gabrielly Nunes ( 1999, actress, Afro-Brazilian )

Herizen Guardiola ( 1996, actress, half Cuban && half Afro-Jamaican )

Indya Marie ( 1993, model and influencer, mixed Afro-Cuban && Cherokee )

Jamila Velazquez ( 1995, actress, mixed Dominican-Ecuadorian-Puerto Rican )

Jaylen Barron ( 1998, actress, half Black && half Mexican )

Kahara Hodges ( 1997, model with acting resources, mostly mixed Black-Mexican-Navajo )

Lala Baptiste ( 1999, influencer, unspecified Afro-Latina )

Lee Rodriguez ( 1999, actress, half Black && half Mexican )

Naressa Valdez ( 1999, model and influencer, mixed Black && Mexican includined unspecified Native American and white )

Raven Lyn Corneil ( 1995, model, unspecified Afro-Latina including white )

Sahara Lin ( 1997, model, mixed Chinese-Dominican-Puerto Rican including white )

Samile Bermannelli ( 1998, model, Afro-Brazilian )

Sivan Alyra Rose ( 1999, actor, mixed Apache && Afro Puerto Rican, non-binary )

Symphani Soto ( 1993, occupation, Half Puerto Rican && half mixed Black-unspecified Native American )

Yenni Schwan ( age unknown, model, half(?) Afro-Cuban && half white )

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maybe there's more context but i noticed a lot of the time, public criticism for projects lands really heavily on lmm's shoulders. the reason why i'm saying this is because i binged his projects and its reception. apparently, when in the heights 2021 came out, there was a lot of discourse about the lack of afro-latino representation in the movie: this itself is completely justifiable and good. we shouldn't be scared to critique and start conversations about media. but i was a bit confused because all of the blame was put on lin and not the director? maybe you can provide more context here: i know he's the show's original creator and is famous, so he's reasonably gonna get more scrutiny; and he did have a role as a producer, but he talked about how they tried to take out the piragua guy, etc. so i assumed he didn't have full control, and usually, the director is the main focus, no?

and of course that period where people hated the song in the little mermaid and the movie being eh was his fault, and even the bad songs in wish somehow being his fault (despite him not being part of that lmao). i'm an international fan that recently listened to in the heights and was really impressed, so i wasn't aware of all of this.

and then the projects of his that were well received seem to have this begrudging energy. people liking tick tick boom (which he directed) but heaping the praise on andrew garfield (who deserves it!!) and not any for lin? like wtf i thought y'all love to make him the sole focus of critique.

these are just my impressions based on some heavy online surfing, and i wanted to ask your opinion!

i actually agree with everything you said here, anon.

let's start with in the heights (2021). i don't know if you're one of my mutuals, but if you are, you probably know already that i am not afraid of criticizing the movie. maybe not because of the lack of representation (i am a white woman so i feel like it's not my place to say anything about this but i totally understand why others can feel excluded), i have other issues with it tho. but, as far as i can tell, lin was not responsible for the casting & yet he was the one who apologized. so they basically said they were talking about casting afro-latinos but they ended up with actors who were just perfect for the roles in their opinion (also, leslie grace, the actress who plays nina, is, in fact, afro-latina). & yes, they were trying to get rid of piragua guy, mostly because they couldn't find anyone who could play him & they asked lin if he could do it (he wasn't supposed to be in the movie AT ALL & he only agreed cause he wanted to save piragua guy). so yes, they put all the blame on lin but those were not exactly his choices. also, speaking of lack of representation, did we already forget about what he did for people of color on broadway? cause i saw so many people calling him racist & it's just... are you sure we are talking about the same guy?

about the scuttlebutt, i have so many things to say. well, first of all, lin was only responsible for like, three songs in the little mermaid? wild uncharted waters & for the first time? damn, those songs are really good & i know most people agree. but there's also the scuttlebutt. so the hate comes mostly from people who hate awkwafina & her voice in general, they find it annoying. well, guess what: this song was supposed to be annoying. maybe it's hard to say when you just listen to it without any context, but damn, just watch the movie & then it makes a lot of sense. second of all: the main audience? kids. & as far as i can tell, the kids absolutely loved it. not every song has to be a masterpiece, some songs are JUST FOR FUN, let's not forget about that. i know a lot of people also complain because it's rap, well guess what, this is lmm we are talking about so what did you expect? it's just his thing, it doesn't have to be everyone's cup of tea, but damn, it's not gonna change just because some people don't like it, deal with it.

speaking of tick tick boom, i absolutely loved the movie & i agree, andrew garfield was incredible, but yes, i haven't seen anyone talking about lin, like??? he literally directed it. i saw one comment on polish website tho that goes like "lin manuel miranda, keep this name in mind cause he's gonna be huge one day" & i was like oh boy, i have news for you... (i'm sorry i hate my country so fucking much).

i'm not even gonna say anything about disney's wish because there's no point. he had nothing to do with it, absolutely nothing, & people still blame him... this is just ridiculous. come on.

i saw a twitter thread some time ago where someone was trying to prove that lin is a bad person in general & honestly, spending so much time online just to prove that someone is problematic is insane to me. go touch some fucking grass instead of being a hater.

honestly, i wish i knew why people hate him so much, yes, i know he is not perfect & he made some mistakes in the past (he even apologized for some of them) but there are so many celebrities who are much more problematic & yet they will hate on lin & try to paint him as evil. i will never understand this.

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Afro-Cubana actress Gina Torres talks about her identity journey as a first Gen Afro-Latina in Hollywood 🇨🇺

Blackness and Latinidad are not mutually exclusive. Afro-Latinx (or Afro-Latino, -Latina, or -Latine) folks are people who identify their ethnicity as Latino and their race as Black. There are millions of descendants of the African diaspora who make up Latin American and Latinx communities.

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My Thoughts On Emilia Peréz, Karla Sofía Gascón and The Harm They Each Do To Mexican and Trans Communities (And Every Other Marginalized Community), As A Gender Non-Conforming Afro-Mexican Indigenous American:

(trigger warning: discussions of racism, racism and xenophobia towards African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Indigenous folks, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, classism, casteism, Islamophobia, Christophobia, anti Blackness, anti Asian racism, anti Mexican racism, anti Indigenous racism, antisemitism, H*tler apologism, cartel violence and transphobic hate crimes)

Before getting into my review of and thoughts on the recent Oscar nominated Netflix film Emilia Peréz, I just wanna state a disclaimer:

*Regardless of people's criticisms of the movie's poor Mexican representation and lack of input from Mexicans into the writing, directing, production, etc., saying that "none of the actresses are Mexican" is something I strongly disagree with when Selena Gomez is indeed Mexican American and a mixed race Mexican American, thus making people's claims extremely hypocritically inaccurate, offensive, incorrect and disrespectful, especially as an Afro-Mexican American; so that's not gonna be tolerated in any comments on this post.

Now that that's out of the way, I'll just jump straight into it: I'm gonna be totally frank and say that I initially bought into the hype of Emilia Perez, for a number of reasons: for starters, Selena Gomez was in it and I was rooting for her and Zoe Saldana (whom I admire as an actress) to win with this movie. Then, on paper, the story itself initially sounded very compelling and interesting and the promise of it taking artistic and creative risks of blending genres and the film being an amalgamation of drama, action, romance and musical alongside having Mexican, queer and trans representation was what also ultimately got me hyped to see it, and Karla Sofía Gascón being the first openly trans actress to be nominated for an Oscar in a lead role made it even more promising. And, to be even more honest, I initially loved the film when I watched it--heck, I watched it numerous times and even defended it from people whom I initially perceived were just being negative for the sake of being negative. When I was wearing hype fueled rose colored glasses, that is. Then I started to watch and listen to perspectives and level headed critcisms from people from the very communities that the movie claimed to represent but ended up poorly misrepresenting and offending--specifically, Mexican folks and trans folks, and Mexican trans folks especially, and overall filmmakers, writers, artists and storytellers that pointed out both the offensive stereotyping and misrepresentation of each marginalized community and the problematic faulty structure of the story, plot, characters, its handling of the musical aspect, etc., and afterwards I started to ease those rose colored glasses off and see and understand what everyone was saying. Then I found out about the director Jacques Audiard's condescending, racist and belitting comments about Mexico, Mexican people, Mexican culture and the Spanish language which, among everything else I mentioned, made me start to dislike the movie and further back away from supporting it.

Then the lead actress Karla Sofia Gascon's old racist, casteist, ableist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, fatphobic, Islamophobic, Christophobic, anti Black, anti Asian, anti Mexican, anti Indigenous, antisemitic, white supremacist and Hitler/nazi apologist tweets got unearthed and exposed. After that, the movie immediately aged like a platter of seafood doused in milk and left to sit out in the sun inside of a hot car trunk on a 99 degrees summer day.

And now for me, especially as a believer in Christ and a mixed race Afro-Latina Mexican/Mexican Native American, Afro-Asian, Afro-Indigenous and Jewish, autistic, disabled, neurodivergent and gender non-conforming femme of color, the rose colored glasses are completely off and now I hate the movie entirely, and I think that it and Karla should be disqualified from winning anything. And Karla herself should have her Golden Globe award and her Oscar nominations rescinded and revoked, and she should also be permanently blacklisted from the movie industry and not ever have a career or any career opportunities ever again. Given the political climate the U.S. in currently in right now, extremist bigotry and discrimination of any kind and especially to that venomous degree that Karla displayed, should not be overlooked, excused or rewarded.

And as for Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana, no hate towards either of them, but now in hindsight and retrospect, Zoe and Selena made a huge mistake choosing to do this movie and it'll probably result in a bigger staining on their reputation for a very long while (on Zoe's part as she's already polarizing in the Black community after she wore blackface in the shoddy film about Nina Simone and has now done a film that's now also offensive to Latinos too and Afro-Latinos in particular, and thus simultaneously offensive to monoracial African American women and Afro-Latinas especially*; and on Selena's part as she's also polarizing and controversial in the Latino community and this movie will further strain her public standing with and reputation amongst the Latino community).

(*Note: speaking of which, while it's important to call out the movie's reinforcing of harmful transphobia and transmisogyny and racist, xenophobic stereotypes of Mexico, Mexican people, language and culture and Mexican Americans, what critics and reviewers seem to be missing and not mentioning is how the film's treatment of Zoe Saldana's character Rita Castro, an Afro-Latina (Dominican) woman of color, feeds into problematic, harmful, racist and offensive stereotypes too: Rita, a Black Afro-Latina woman of color, is initially positioned to be the main character of the movie but then ends up getting side lined in her own story and reduced to being nothing more than Emilia Perez's token black sidekick or best friend whose own character and story arc regarding her background, career, love life and overall interior life is left unexplored and unresolved with no depth and no development at all--though even calling Rita the Token Black Female Best Friend would be a slight upgrade (still trite and icky nonetheless, but still), as she's not even treated as that and is rather relegated to being the errands woman constantly running after Emilia and either cleaning up and fixing her messes for her or getting dragged into the middle of Emilia's messes, and even more disturbingly, a punching bag who bares the brunt of Emilia's violence, threats and coercion before Emilia's transition, and is basically--and as much as I hate to say it but have to say it nonetheless to drive home the point of another harmful negative stereotype that the movie reinforces that others seem to miss or ignore--treated as and reduced to being the mule. And whatever scraps of a character and story arc the viewer does get of Rita is only framed within the lens of struggle, exhaustion, unhappiness, being left unackowledged, mistreated, abused, threatened, underappreciated and unappreciated, with no independent interior life, agency, autonomy or arc of her own, no love interest of her own and no personality of her own, reinforcing not only the black female sidekick/best friend and mule stereotypes but also the undesirable black female spinster stereotype, and further driven home by the film's ending when Rita is left to care for Emilia and Jessi's sons after Emilia, Jessi and Gustavo all die in a car accident, which also reduces Rita to the even more offensive maid/mammy stereotype. So Rita, an Afro-Latina female character, is reduced to all the classic anti black racist and misogynoir fueled stereotypes: the token sidekick/best friend, the mule, the maid, the figurative punching bag on which violence and coercion is enacted, the loveless undesirable spinster and the mammy. So this film is also guilty of also reinforcing and perpetuating anti black racism and anti black xenophobia and misogynoir towards Black women, whether monoracial African American women or Afro-Latina/Afro-Latina American women.

So since Mexican and Mexican American folks can watch this film and feel offended, disrespected and dehumanized, trans folks can watch this film and feel offended, disrespected and dehumanized, and since Mexican and Mexican American trans folks can watch this film and feel offended, disrespected and dehumanized, since Black folks--both monoracial African American folks and Afro-Latino/Afro-Latino American folks can watch this film and feel offended, disrespected and dehumanized, and since especially Black women, both monoracial African American women and Afro-Latina/Afro-Latina American women, particularly Afro-Mexican/Afro-Mexican American women can watch this film and feel offended, disrespected and dehumanized, then imagine how monoracial African American trans women, Afro-Latina/Afro-Latina American trans women, and Afro-Mexican/Afro-Mexican American trans women especially, can feel offended, disrespected and dehumanized by watching this movie (and more so considering that real life incidents of racial and gender based violence towards Black women, and especially racially targeted, gender based and transphobic violence and hate crimes towards African American and Afro-Latina/Afro-Latina trans women, are through the roof right now).

And considering that Karla's tweets also perpetuate anti-blackness, particularly her hateful and ugly comments disparaging and mocking George Floyd and his death, this context is particularly relevant and it matters, especially to me as an Afro-Latina/Afro-Mexican and Afro-Indigenous American. And as someone who's also a Jew of color, Karla's particularly vile and evil endorsement and defense of H*tler and neo nazi fascism and overall antisemitism really felt like a chilling and stinging additional gut punch and the final straw.

In conclusion, don't watch Emilia Perez. Don't support Emilia Perez. Don't support director Jacques Audiard. And especially do NOT support Karla Sofía Gascón and do NOT defend her. And shame on Netflix for ignoring, dismissing, silencing and censoring Mexican and trans critics that call this out.

Support actual Mexican and Mexican American creators. Support trans creators. Support African American and Afro-Latinx creators. Support Mexican and Mexican American trans creators. Support African American and Afro-Latinx trans creators. Just don't support director Jacques Audiard and his movie Emilia Perez or its bigoted lead actress Karla Sofía Gascón, and instead boycott all of them.

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Happy Birthday To The Hottest And Most Bodacious Geeky Nerdy Bad@$$ Actress of Many Favoritable Movies and Shows of the 21st Century. The Awesome Latina Wonder Woman👩🏾🇵🇷🇨🇺🤎🧡 herself.

She is an American actress. She made her feature-film debut in the 1995 independent drama Kids. Her subsequent film roles include He Got Game (1998), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Men in Black II (2002), The Rundown (2003), Rent (2005), Sin City (2005), Clerks II (2006), Death Proof (2007), Seven Pounds (2008), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Unstoppable (2010), Zookeeper (2011), Trance (2013), Top Five (2014), Zombieland: Double Tap (2019), and Clerks 3 (2022). Dawson has provided voice-over work for Disney/Marvel, Warner Bros./DC Comics, and ViacomCBS's Nickelodeon unit.

Rosario Dawson was born on May 9, 1979, in New York City. Her mother, Isabel Celeste, is of Puerto Rican, Taíno, Cuban and African ancestry. Isabel was 17 years old when Rosario was born; she never married Rosario's biological father, Patrick C. Harris. When Dawson was a year old, Isabel married Greg Dawson, a construction worker. Isabel and Greg moved into a reclaimed building on East 13th Street after being approved as members of an affordable housing plan. The family later moved to Garland, Texas.

As a child, Dawson made a brief appearance on Sesame Street. At the age of 15, she was discovered on her front-porch step by photographer Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, with Korine deciding that she was perfect for a part he had written in his screenplay for the controversial 1995 film Kids. 

Dawson had several roles in film and television adaptations of comic books. These include Gail in Sin City (2005) and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), Claire Temple in five of the Marvel Netflix series (2015–2018), and providing the voices of Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in the DC Animated Movie Universe and Space Jam: A New Legacy and Barbara Gordon / Batgirl in The Lego Batman Movie. In 2020, she portrayed Ahsoka Tano in the second season of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, and stars in Disney+ original series Ahsoka. In 2021, she had a recurring role in the Dwayne Johnson autobiographical comedy series Young Rock and a main role in the Hulu miniseries Dopesick.

I always thought she was Afro Latina. Oh well

PLEASE WISH THIS MOST AWESOME & BAD@$$ LATINA AMERICAN ACTRESS OF MANY FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT & HOT NERD 🤓 🔥

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

YOU KNOW HER

YOU SEEN HER MOVIES 🎥 , TV APPEARANCES 📺 & GEEK OUT ON SUPERHERO FILMS 🎥

& SHE IS STILL RADIANT TO THIS VERY DAY

THE 1 & THE ONLY

MS ROSARIO ISABEL DAWSON👩🏾 🇵🇷🇨🇺🤎🧡

HAPPY 45TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU MS. DAWNSON👩🏾🇵🇷🇨🇺🤎🧡 & HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS TO COME

#RosarioDawson

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"Emilia Perez" And Why Zoe Saldana Is A Textbook Tether

Zoe Saldana has hit a rough patch in her career since deciding to star in "Absence of Eden". "Emilia Perez" has just extended the missteps in her filmography into what is now a full downward spiral.

There's something to say about a Latina actress who is so adamant to portray nationalities across the Latin diaspora, aside from her own - which is decidedly D.R. - yet as in "...Eden", Saldana once again portrays a Mexican on the big screen.

To further complicate identity politics, the film sees Saldana portray a lawyer who gets wrapped up in assisting a cartel boss' sex change.

In "... Eden" Saldana played an illegal immigrant, in "... Perez", she's a crooked lawyer that has the nerve to give aid to the Mexican cartel.

With illicit pharmaceuticals flooding the States as well as illegal immigration being hot button issues in my country of origin, I don't believe that Saldana's latest films should have had a theatrical U.S. release.

The medium of film should be used to tell unsung stories and should be used as a tool to make public unspoken truths. I disagree with the film industry being used as a blatant propaganda tool to destabilize nations, which I believe "Perez" and "Eden" share in common, other than just their once A-list starlet.

Like Sammy Sosa (a prominent D.R. celebrity before her), Saldana has been unashamed to follow the eugenics agenda ascribed to the Latin Diaspora via Jose Vasconcelos - not in the sense of bleaching her skin, but by mating on and off-screen with white-identifying latinos, in an effort to bleach her bloodline.

Since she's unashamed to do this, she should not have a right to complain about black social issues, even if briefly in a song number featured at the start of "Emilia Perez".

Saldana's lawyer character states that the reasons of her perception of being held back in her otherwise prestigious career is because of her age, her attractive curves (that she underlines in the musical number but can contribute to her indeginious Taino lineage), and blatantly states because she's black, she can't open up a law firm.

I had to pump the brakes there.

In a North American country such as Mexico, the agenda of Euro-colonization is as present as it is anywhere else in this world.

In the late 2010's, Mexico began recognizing their indigenous Afro-Latino population within their countries census. "Emilia Perez" was shot in 2023.

The film opens with Castro (Saldana) helping a wealthy Euro-Latino getting off uxoricide. Then her next case is with the cartel head who wants a sex change.

In "Eden", Saldana opens the film as a stripper and - surprise, surprise - gets mixed up with the cartel, and is now on the run from organized crime more than ICE.

The disconnect between making Saldana a sympathetic lead in these films is that she is constantly in bed with a criminal element that furthers the destabilization of my country of origin and further pushes my ethnic group within it lower down it's colorist caste system.

But then the biggest problem is that she tethers herself to the plight of the African diaspora while supporting Euro-colonization through her choices off-screen for roles on-screen that are supportive of Euro-Latin crime organizations - whether it be the under the table deals made with the U.S.' illegal immigrant population or the outright defense of Cartel members and assisting them with their every whim.

This film wasn't advertised as a musical and the ill-timed trailer of the film prior to it's screening made no mention of the glaring LGBTQ+ subplot.

As a heterosexual man, I felt bamboozled into even sitting through the hour of "Emilia Perez" that I did.

I was glad I didn't pay to see it. Just as well, I found it in good fortune that now local theaters with unoccupied screens end up having a film such as "Emilia Perez" shut off halfway through - because why waste a projector on a picture no one wants to pay for.

I see why no one wanted to pay to see "Emilia Perez" despite the bait of Saldana on the bill.

Saldana's choices have now resulted in her not being qualified to attach herself to any black struggle since on and off screen she wants to side with Euro-Latinos and their agendas which are inherently against the Afrocentric.

Her self-hatred is a disappoinment to the point I've felt physically uncomfortable seeing her on-screen since "Amsterdam". Had I been taught ethnopolitics as a child, Saldana would have made me sick since "Curse of The Black Pearl". "Emilia Perez" was the reminder I didn't need that at least on "Avatar", Cameron had the since to have Saldana bedwench in blue to at least put a few degrees of separation between the plot of the film and her own self-hatred.

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C.V.R. The Bard

21st/Jan.2k25

* As an aside, what's up with the bag-over-the-head asphyxiation kink? Is that fetish exclusive to the bedwench community and being spearheaded by the likes of Saldana or FKA TWIGS (see : The Crow)? I'm asking for Marilyn Manson.