#poc appreciation

[dreams-in-blk]

[feloire]

[punkeropercyjackson]

And if i said they remind me of eachother?

[transonlyspace]

poc trans women 💞💞

transhets 💞💞

pre t trans people 💞💞

non binary trans people 💞💞

bigender trans people 💞💞

trans people 💞💞

[kyllaaky]

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[whenthewallfell]

sharing a wip because I'm really pleased with how it's looking, but also I tried to incorporate some native american patterns with a capitol flair (headcanon is art nouveau) into Katniss' design and idk how well i've managed it...please lemme know if anything is massively Wrong

[amtvisuals]

Nina... Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are and how much you love yourself.

[welcometotheravenclawcommonroom]

I headcanon that Ron is a stay at home parent (who occasionally works part time at Fred and George’s shop, more often after the kids start school), so he’s the one that does Rose and Hugo’s hair. It takes him lots of practice, but he learns from Hermione’s mom and gets really good at working with black hair, and does all the styling for the whole house. Hermione loves having her husband do her hair, both because it’s very intimate and good bonding time, and also because it gives her extra time to read or work while Ron does her hair for her.

[siriusly-parker]

can someone tell me what’s the deal with caribbean girlies (and non-binary babies) and having the most aesthetic blogs??? no cause i’m obsessed!! i’m eating that shit up!! 😭😭 did y’all make a pact or something?? i’m going down a rabbit hole and i’m not complaining <3

(definitely not writing w/ these in mind @neptnszn @screampied @satorena and more)

[dreams-in-blk]

[feloire]

[punkeropercyjackson]

The 'Signals of hope for a dystopian world even though they're just a young boy of color but pull it off better than way more experienced people with anarchism,activism and audacity' trinity

[casscainmainly]

I deeply appreciate your input (especially WRT agency) on that 'was Cass just *conceptually* racist after all' issue, not least because some wags defending the 'Birds of Prey' flick's character changes took exactly that 'meh, classic Cass was just an insulting silent fighter stereotype anyway' tack. That just didn't seem like a fair read for her, but as a pasty white dude I didn't trust my ability to put a finger on it.

Thank you!! Yeah a large part of my incentive to make this post was to specifically address the Silent Asian allegations. I feel like a lot of people lobbying them at Cass don't understand her character, and using an Asian stereotype to undermine one of the most popular DC Asian superheroes is so misguided to me!

I feel like when people use racism as a way to put down fictional characters of colour, that's when we cross the line between calling out racism in media to using racism as an excuse for liking/disliking certain characters. Racism isn't a tool to be used for media analysis; when people identify racism within media, it's because of the harm it causes to real people. I wasn't online for the Birds of Prey discourse, but I can bet 90% of the people saying the movie changes were good either weren't Asian or didn't know anything about Cass.

Something I didn't bring up in my previous post (because I wanted to prove Cass didn't fulfil the stereotype in text) is that Puckett was well aware of the stereotype, and Cass learning to talk was an active repudiation of it. @dailycass-cain covered it somewhere, [about Asian editor Jessica Chen calling up Puckett and pointing out the Silent Asian trope (if anyone has the actual post please reply with it, I can't seem to find it!).] Correction: it was actually Jenny Lee and Cliff Chiang from VERTIGO who called up Joseph P. Illidge from the Batman editorial office (link here). Thank you dailycass-cain for the correction!!!!

This demonstrates the importance of POC behind the scenes - it doesn't even have to be the writer, but having POC in DC positions goes a long way to combating racism within the stories.

All this to say that racism and racist stereotypes aren't some 'gotcha' for why some characters are better than others. Many people who interrogate fandom and media racism are fans of the media/characters themselves, and want to see things improved. Anti-racism requires a deep interrogation into our own biases as well as the media we consume, and blindly calling characters of colour stereotypes and/or bad representation is careless. Cass isn't above criticism, but the criticism should be substantial!

Check out this article from the DC blog for another take on how Cass defies stereotypes!

[theereina]

Black Women in the Medical/Healthcare Field 🏥👩🏾‍⚕️🩺🥼💉💊

[prettygirlfromsaturn]

ATTENTION ALL BLACK PLUS SIZED BABES WHAT DO WE WANNA READ I WILL WRITE IT FOR YOU BC YOU DESERVE THE ENTIRE WORLD MY LOVE

[blvcksoul11]

I needed to remind myself of how gorgeous I am 👸🏾