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that-binchh · 9 days ago

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as much as i love reading cherik fics, i do have to turn off my brain every time because every fic seems to have a line or two about how mutant issues is the most pressing social injustice. and like as a black person, that line is so tone deaf to me because racism in the x-men world is both visible and invisible, which is actually so true to reality that it lowkey makes me sick.

#it is painfully clear when the writer is a white person #especially on older fics #like yes these two white mutant men are peak revolutionaries #and its crazy bc erik and charles despite being part of marginalized groups can hide their sexualities and mutations #and like don’t get me wrong ik erik faces antisemitism and i’m not trying to minimize that at all #but it’s undeniable that black folks in america endure a degree of hypervisbility and erasure unlike any other marginalized group #also i’m not saying let’s hc cherik as men of color #i actually think their whiteness and the privilege that comes with it despite their mutations #is like super fascinating from a narrative point of view #it’s just NEVER addressed in fics #at least not in any meaningful way that adds nunance to their characters as well as the larger fictional world #… i just have a LOT of feelings about race in xmen #cherik #xmen discourse #race in fandom #black in fandom

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