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[linoyes]

COUNTDOWN TO LEE KNOW'S BIRTHDAY -> DAY 1 CAT IN WATER

[historicwomendaily]

hi! we appreciate all your edits (believe me, we do. why do you think we follow you if we don't?). but i think you are indeed a bit defensive and offensive to some anons who are being constructive with the issues with race and representation. the last thing i want is to start a social justice argument with you because tumblr is already a shitsite full of it, but i'm a poc too and i want our film industry with actors/actresses specifically from my country be properly represented

.. and exposed at least here in tumblr. why? because it rarely happens for us. i get that you think how often it happens that a british actor plays a french/ russian etc character. but the hollywood, british (and the rest of european) actors already have their worldwide fame, so it wasn’t really much of an issue? (still some would prefer to be as accurate as possible) but asian, african and other poc actors don’t get that much exposure so i think that’s why some of us feel bad when (2/3)

..our backgrounds are not properly represented. yes, we may be of the same race, but we are very very diverse. we already are so tired to be offensively interchanged chinese = japanese = korean / indian = arabian = persian when we are very different. it’s nice that the western history are well known in tumblr history, but if our history will be portrayed here, i hope it would be properly done.. (3/3)

thanks for sending such well thought out asks!

a lot of the defensive/on the offence bits comes from an overall fustration that there isnt much material to draw upon as POC in period dramas are sadly few and far between, esp POC from very specific locations. I wish everyone was represented!! It isnt fair at all, and the film industry should focus a lot more on the amazing stories of the women on this page. As for the whole ordeal youre referring to (as I’ll call it)  most of the anons/ the conversation happened over the course of a day or two- a day which i had already logged on to tumblr in a fowl mood, which I probably shouldnt have. Usually I ~ among many others ~ use tumblr as a form of escape from the stress and hecticness of daily life. Learning about history and celebrating these amazing hidden gems of countless unknown women brings me joy!

That day I happened to get some very bad news from my doctor. I wont go into it much b/c this isn’t about me, but I’ve been sick for a couple years with a rare, unknown illness and I found out one of the experimental treatments I was on wasn’t working very well. The drive to the medical research center is long and the appointment ended up lasting near the entire day, and so I got home late that night and logged on to tumblr to escape and immerse myself into what I love only to find out that the gifset I had been pretty proud of wasn’t being recieved all that well, which bummed me out to say the least. The last thing I had ever wanted to do was to offend anyone, especially as my goal has been to celebrate amazing women and all the diversity that entails. Still, its true I hadn’t put much research into my faceclaim and only chose one that aesthetically looked like her real life photograph, and to be quite honest, didnt even think to research the actresses background. That’s on me- I took for granted my own freedom of expression/representation in the media and extended it to people who dont have the same experience. I wont be doing it again. 

so as stated before, I completely understand/empathize (as much as someone in my position can) what you are saying, and all my gifsets and edits following Noor’s will try to adhere to the women in questions’ rightful background

I know I came off a tad defensive, and Im sorry if that made it sound like I wasn’t being as empathetic or understanding to those who are POC, but I am trying and learning- tbh I’d just had a rough time of it that day and hadn’t been in the right state of mind to fully digest everything you all were trying to say.

again though, thank you for the asks

-G