Tag: diversity

Branching off of this wonderful, wonderful post, coz I just caught sight of the Solo poster on the way home. 

Where is my Leia Organa origin story? Can you honestly tell me no one would be interested as fuck in that? How did Bail raise her? Did he watch her growing up outsmarting every single tutor and blowing everyone else out of the water and his heart clench in the memory of Padmé Amidala? You can’t tell me Leia never wondered about her birth parents. How much did Bail tell her? How much did he choose to reveal? How much of her history informed her future? 

And more importantly, how much would it mean for girls to see this path to emulate, knowing her future? It is, of course, entirely possible that Leia was the exception rather than the rule when it comes to women throughout her upbringing, but it takes a village to raise a child, and I don’t think Leia would be the sort of girl to ignore the absence of women around her. If we must include that shoddy excuse for a sequel, at least give me Leia’s relationship with Holdo. And as someone who pursued Obi-Wan so relentlessly during IV, I imagine she would reach out to even rumours of a Jedi. And because we’re in the Star Wars verse- there is absolutely no excuse for not having any diversity. Give me women of all shapes and sizes, creeds and cultures, religions and races. Hell, give me aliens. There should definitely be aliens, considering how she became a senator- how else was she going to learn about foreign culture? Certainly not by just reading out of a book. 

Give me life upon Themyscira, give me my Amazons movie. Bloody hell, on that note, give me my Xena movie. Give me my Black Widow movie. Give me more women to learn from, to look up to, to aspire to be, to adore, to love, to appreciate, to laugh at, to hate. 

dellanfere:

hate the fandom idea that if you criticise something it means you hate it and hate everyone enjoying it. that’s false. i can’t stop criticising overwatch, but if you’d look at my blog for 3 seconds you’d also see i love the game. every book i’ve read in the last couple of years has contained things i criticise them for, and yet i’ve read my top favourite books of all time during that time as well. 

the idea that you can criticise a creator’s work and the idea that you can still enjoy it can co-exist. acting like everything you consume can never be criticised is dangerous, because it means people won’t talk about improvement in, for example, portrayal of minorities. it also shows how extremely privileged the anti-discourse part, the “just enjoy the work” part, of fandom is, because complaining about artistic discourse purposefully shuts down voices that aren’t white, cisgender and heterosexual: it’s white fans that complain about how fans of colour ruin their fandom by bringing up racism; it’s cis fans that complain about how trans fans ruin fandom by bringing up transphobia within the work; it’s heterosexual fans that complain about how lgbt fans ruin everything by bringing up homophobia. 

criticising media is healthy, it’s good, and it’s what improves what we consume. criticism is a part of the artistic culture, part of a discussion between consumers and its creators, and fandom needs to realise that it can’t separate itself from that.

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So like i was looking it up and apparently Crazy Rich Asians will be the first Hollywood film with an all-Asian cast in 25 years (the last one being 1993′s Joy Luck Club) AND the very first Hollywood rom-com with an all-Asian cast too! Why are ya’ll not talking about it more??? This is a big deal guys, we should give it the support it deserves! 

Guys….GUYYYYYYYYYYYYS

Have you seen the poster?

The trailer?

Have you seen how CONSTANCE WU shines in it?

We have to support this movie. Let’s show Hollywood that we want more Asian stories with an Asian cast. LET’S GO SEE THE HECK OUT OF THIS MOVIE!!!

I didn’t even click the link but I know and am around enough crazy rich asians to tell from the photos that its already accurate.

Can we also talk about how this is a role that normally would be given to someone in their early twenties and Constance Wu is 36?  This is awesome!!!

Omg this is like the beautiful love child of a kdrama and American rom-com! Also I will watch ANYTHING with Constance Wu in it because she is pure magic! Cant wait for this!!!

Y’all please watch this I’m begging you. It ain’t malaysia but Singapore is close enough man im legit crying. When this drops I’m going to cry like a baby

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Y’all gotta watch what you say to kids and in front of kids. I was working with some young black kids today and one of the girls asked me why I had my hair natural. I told her I’m just taking a break from weaves and braids and all that and she said oh girl no we too dark to have our nappy hair out like that. She was 9. She said she doesn’t leave her house without it flat ironed because people will think she’s broke and ugly. This is also the same girl that last summer told me that we needed to go inside out of the sun because boys don’t like girls with dark skin. Little kids don’t come up with this stuff themselves, they hear their parents or other people talk about things and internalize the self hate or will tell these hurtful untrue things to their darker peers.

I work at a library, plenty of kids say shit like this. Since I like art, I draw dark skin girls with them everyday. I draw natural hair. Dark brown eyes. Draw with them all the time. Sneak in messages about self love. I try to tell them frequently I love their natural hair no matter the length or even if it’s damaged, let them know they are beautiful it’s not fucking cute that people demand black girls, and these are children, to be literally perfect. That’s not okay. I show them pics of dark skinned girls etc. like it’s up to us to help them and we all can do so much even with very little. Their parents might be trash, but positive encounters with people combats the toxicity and it does help I’ve seen it myself

^a real one

rileymcdaniels:

I’m nonbinary.

I’m in law school.

I’m out. I introduce myself to people with my name and pronouns.

In my email signature, my pronouns are directly underneath my name in an only slightly smaller font.

It’s February, and I already have secured a summer internship.

I’m in the top 25% of my class. 

You can be nonbinary, and you can be out, and you can still succeed. You don’t have to compromise. There’s going to be transphobic people, there always will, but being out does not mean you can’t pursue the career you want.

The most important thing, the most necessary thing, is to find support from other trans people and from allies who use your pronouns publicly and without shame. 

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Good morning tumblr, Who are we cancelling today??

Victoria Secret 

Read More: https://www.vogue.com/article/rihanna-savage-fenty-lingerie-campaign-body-positivity

I literally just signed up on the website and bras go higher than DDD and undies go up to 3XL so yeah guys it’s more inclusive than VS, the article is inaccurate

Hey everyone, I just wanted to say that for my capstone in my undergrad, our class ran an ad campaign for VS. So, of course, we got to talk to a ton of executives for the company. One of our goals for them was to figure out how to make VS appeal more to the younger generation. The girls in my class (which was about 98% of my class) immediately jumped on the “body inclusivity” train. Why not start hiring plus-size models to be angels? Why not start including bigger sizes?

The executives immediately took it off the table. Their words were “We are interested in selling the fantasy of the supermodel” in layman’s terms that equates to “no fat chicks” and we spent the rest of the meeting with the ladies in my class (myself, included) questioning the executives and essentially jumping down their throats.

Victoria’s Secret is not interested in body inclusivity. They don’t care about appealing to a wider audience, despite their failing sales. They’re seriously a bunch of older, out of touch people who don’t understand that times are changing and they will very soon get left behind. We gave them facts, statistics, and survey results that we collected that PROVED that people aren’t interested in VS anymore and that’s exactly why. But they don’t care about that. They don’t care about improving their own image. They just don’t care about their own consumer base.

I hope somebody besides me reads this. Because I want more people to know what narrow minded scumbags the executives at Victoria’s Secret are.

HIGHER THAN DDD YOU SAY? ME AND GIRLS ARE ACCEPTED!!

I NEED THIS!!!!!

https://www.vogue.com/article/rihanna-savage-x-fenty-lingerie-launch-details/

https://www.savagex.com

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micdotcom:

This 7-year-old wrote a book to prove black girls can be princesses, too

Todd Taylor’s nickname for his 7-year-old daughter Morgan was “Princess,” but one day she told him he couldn’t call her that anymore.

Morgan told Today that she explained to her father, “I love it when you call me a princess but I know I am not really a real one … Real princesses were vanilla and I can’t really be a princess.”

Almost all of the princesses in movies and books Morgan had seen were white. “I received the biggest wake-up call,” Taylor told Today.

So he and his daughter researched women leaders of color — and found that, actually, there are a lot of stories of black and brown princesses.

Morgan and her dad decided to write a book together, so other kids could learn about inspirational princesses of color.

Their book, Daddy’s Little Princess, is out now, and Morgan and her dad say the response has been overwhelmingly positive.

“Every little girl should believe she’s a princess,” the now 7-year-old said — and now they have a number of real historical examples.

Yay! So proud of this little princess!

Yes!

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lynda carter really wore a magen david and a crown that says never forget like the legend jumped out

Wait! Are her earrings the Kabbalah tree????

FOR THE PEEPS THAT DONT KNOW:

LYNDA CARTER’S HUSBAND AND CHILDREN ARE JEWISH

SHE IS FAMOUS FOR BEING THE OG WONDER WOMAN, A CHARACTER CURRENTLY BEING PLAYED BY JEWISH GAL GADOT

ALSO ALSO ALSO HER BAG?? DESIGNED BY A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR

AS FOR THE EARRINGS, IDK BUT IT LOOKS PRETTY SIMILAR

THIS IS A VERY NICE WAY TO SHOW SOLIDARITY WHILE ALSO STICKING IT TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH/CHRISTIAN-CENTRIC THEMES YOU GO LYNDA YOU GO

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EDIT: ALSO HER DRESS IS BY ZAC POSEN, A JEWISH DESIGNER, THIS JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER

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The tree-design of the earrings does evoke the 10 Sephirot, but there are only 7 gems. 

There’s three diamonds in the middle, giving 10 sephirot in a traditional arrangement

YES!!! you can more easily count all ten sephirot-gems in the kveller photos: