#light skin indigenous

[rebellum]

Full on saying "sex based oppression isn't real, that's a radfem talking point" seems like way too much to me. Like, it IS real. Every single person who was assigned female at birth, or who is considered to be female bodied in any way (so, including eg trans fems who may be considered female bodied due to surgery, intersex people who were maybe assigned as female later on in life), is oppressed because of that. That's an inarguable fact.

But that doesn't mean every single person who was assigned male at birth oppresses every single person assigned female at birth through the axis of sex. Like, obviously trans people who were amab don't have more social privilege as a group than cis gender conforming women.

Both things can be true at once.

[lesbow]

While the teaser trailer for the live action looks fantastic and the stills released on Twitter look amazing (APPA LOOKS SO GOOD!!!), I just cannot and don’t think I ever will get over Katara and Sokka having immensely lighter skin compared to their animated originals.

I’m not gonna go into the Ian Ousley Situation™️, but just wanted to speak on the colorist choice to cast paler indigenous actors for darker skin roles. This is no hate to the kids, but indigenous peoples (including Asian-based communities) with brown/darker skin do exist and it’s unfortunate that both live action adaptations fail to acknowledge them.

And before my notifications start getting spammed with that SAME picture of Kiawentiio sitting under the warmest toned lighting possible at a convention, the trailer and released stills have now shown us what they will look like in the actual show. Regardless of lighting, Katara and Sokka were very visibly brown and darker than Aang and Zuko in the original show. Not simply one shade tanner, but brown and this is an important distinction.

I make this post just as a reminder that while the trailer looks promising, and it’s good actual Asian and Indigenous actors were cast (mostly), colorism is still a very real problem that shouldn’t be ignored or dismissed.

[toxicshipsincorporated]

Gonna be real real rn. I've been seeing ppl talk about the dissatisfaction that the actors cast to play the watertribe characters are much lighter than their animated counterparts as being an example of colorism and I need yall to stop that.

That's not what that is. I am a light-skinned indigenous person who understands the privilege that I hold because of the way people perceive me. I would never take a role/position for a character or meant for a person of a darker complexion. Because I know that I am visually more palatable simply because of the color of my skin and that is a prejudice I do not feel comfortable benefiting from. With that being the actors for Katara and Sokka are younger who knows what their agents and the people around them said. Whatever. But people saying, "hey the original character design had them as much darker than the actors that you cast. That is suspect and you should have cast a more accurate cast for these roles." That is CALLING OUT COLORISM for ppl who are not aware.

Now the chucklefucks saying some variation of, "these actors don't even LOOK native!!" Is ALSO not colorism. It's just good ole anti-indigenous racism baby. Yes, yes, it can be internalized.

[loroliyesplaything]

ty so much for supporting my posts btw :) I feel like I dont thank u enough lol. btw, Melanie comes from Dominican and Puerto Rican descent, so she isn't white, she's Latina

oh np! I realized embarrassingly recently how wrong and gross everything surrounding the situation is, how all the arguments against Timothy (and Madeleine!) are just bs and victim-blaming. I'm now working hard to show support for Timothy and other victims, and to combat the army of (mostly child) fans spewing rape apologia everywhere. it's beyond infuriating what Melanie and fans (looking especially at The Crow, a full entire adult) have done not only to Melanie's victims, but to victims everywhere.

(regarding Melanie's race, I'm not exactly sure but I've seen many ppl saying she's white + Latina, like ethnically Latina and racially white, but I don't know, they're at least white passing given everyone who's surprised to hear they're Latina at all ig. doesn't matter for the situation tho ofc, and I'm certainly not confident I actually know myself)

[normal-thoughts-official]

So I'm a teacher and I'm going to use cubecraft paper toys (you know those little guys you print, cut, and then glue together to make little toys? that) for a geometry class. So far I've been able to find:

3 aliens (child friendly)

5 aliens (from wildly inappropriate for kids media)

2 amogus

12 different fictional dogs, cats, etc

7 characters I've never heard of in my life

6 characters from adult-ish media well beyond the usual age of paper toy users

0 Black women

And I'll give one chance to figure out which of these I was actually looking for

Like. IDK the whole "forced diversity" discourse is stupid and we all know this but it really drives home how stupid it is whenever I try to use something based on children's media for my classes and I have to fight for my LIFE to find anything that's not a white man or a dainty princessy white woman for them. It's seriously annoying

[ellynneversweet]

Look the Disney live action remakes are, as a general rule, not even worth acknowledging, and there’s something wrong with adults who take the time to argue about them, but I didn’t expect Netflix to come out swinging with a steel chair.

[fivepercentgodsandearths]

Show and Prove Recap

June 9-11, 2023

[usaigi]

some of y'all need to learn the difference between whitewashing and colorism

[thewingedwolf]

i hate the way people will say the most out of pocket nonsense about Latinos in the US and then act surprised when people say they’ve got some racism issues. “oh if it weren’t for the fact that people in the USA hate everyone with ancestry from Latin America, lock Latino children in cages even under democratic presidents, and regularly hop on tv to call all Latinos evil rapists and murderers, they’d all be considered white” yeah no SHIT if literally every aspect of how Latinos in the US are racialized was different, they would be racially categorized in a different way, that is a very intelligent thing to say about race relations and doesn’t at all exacerbate issues thanks you are so wise and educated and learned

[haemosexuality]

today i got asked if i consider myself black. i have literally no fucking clue do you understand the can of worms you just tried to open

[starry-heavens]

I mean really

It's not that hard. Rin may be my only poc character, but all I did was use the eyedropper tool plus making it a bit darker than what the tool picked up, to get the color of her skin.

The same with my skykid

The hair is the only thing I really have trouble getting right consistently in terms of style and color

I might recolor my latest Lively Navigator fanart with a skin tone closer to what I think they would have had when alive. No it won't be white or pale. Probably closer to the skin tone of like....the characters in Moana (best fictional example I could come up with 😅)

[cabbagegunk]

hey my advice is drop your irls and also that you should go apeshit that is fucked up

well the thing is i study video games. so my cohort is mainly white gamers! please ignore the blood in my mouth this is normal

[inmydrcams]

damn, I really thought people were over this nonsense

[naemors]

there's going to be a lot of big changes to namor's canon from the comics bc he's maya and that absolutely influences everything he says and does... how people perceive him and his people. it's not a blind raceswap, there's absolutely huge differences in his attitude regarding some things compared to how he is in the comics.

[mewglitch]

(black) rap won't fix you until you listen to at least one indigenous song

also sorta unrelated but i still don't understand why "white" (read: light skinned people) aren't allowed to use aave. like maybe it's

the current trend of "tumblr users embarrassing themselves by proudly announcing why they don't listen to any music made by black people" is really astounding.

i cannot help but think this is a direct result of liberal White Guilt and how people have interpreted "anti-racism" as form of cultural self-segregation - the kind of person who thinks trying to cook chicken curry is cultural appropriation, or sends white people anon hate for wearing a kimono (yes, this kind of discourse happened). like, "oh, no, i could never participate in this culture, i'd get my evil white hands all over it! it would be more Progressive if I only did White things."

if you're a poc you've seen this, i'm sure - this deer-in-the-headlights stare you can get from white people when you play music / show art / share a story / anything that is Racially Coded, this total refusal to actually engage with it out of fear that it is in some way Wrong for them to have any opinion on it. because they read somewhere that it's bad to use AAVE but the only lesson they actually learned from that is "gotcha, white people are not allowed to interact with other cultures as punishment for my White Crimes. this helps to fill up the gaping pit of my white guilt and makes me one of the Good People." this transforms their discomfort around non-white cultures (black culture, especially, i should add) into a kind of virtue

anyway if you are white and reading this. go listen to some fucking haliu mergia. ethiopian jazz. will knock your dick right off. go listen to rap or reggae or bollywood and have a genuine reaction to it - like, an actual, from-the-heart reaction. you are allowed to not like some of it. but you will definitely like at least a little. yes, you can compare it to lemon demon (or whatever) if that helps you get into it and that's your only point of reference. maybe don't say that part out loud. but don't, like, separate yourself from it, like you are seeing it in a museum and the only polite thing to do is go "ahh, huh, very interesting, so much culture here."

[perseephony]

i don’t think it’s controversial to say that white people just don’t understand what racism feels like, and what micro aggressions look like, and so they ought to just shut up and listen when black people speak about it