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We don’t even need Disney. Shoutout to the young black writers, directors, producers, animators, we can make it happen.
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maghrebaddie asked:
2/2 and eventually i want to end the series w peace between both groups and the progress of bettering the society but i’m scared i’ll make it look 2 easy and i want to do it good, how’d you suggest i’d do that. P.S i went through ur racism and oppression tags and they’re extremely helpful so i’ll use them, i just couldn’t find one w the right answer making it easy as in “well we oppressed, dehumanized and killed you and your ancestors thru the ages but we’re past that :)”
So in your WIP you have an extremely oppressive system which works against non-magic people and poc, where they go as far as lynching and putting people and their children regardless of magical ability into camps. It would be natural for there to be intersectionality, so I’m assuming there’s a social hierarchy of white+magic, poc+magic, white+noom and then poc+noom.
In your story you’re working towards equality. I’m going to tell you, your series will span across a long time period. Progress takes a lot of time and effort and things are going to get rough in your story. It’ll be a tough story to write.
The oppression will go from extreme, to overt, to normalized and covert as peace comes around. All the while, there’ll be systemic oppression, which will last many years more after peace has come.
My advice to you is to research oppressive systems, how oppression affects societies, how it affects individuals, how it still affects people today despite “peace” and the different ways oppression can take form. Then think about how the people in your story will be treated, how they react, etc. Is the racism the same as in our world? How does oppression based on magical-ability work? Why are they oppressed? Make sure you don’t copy, but every –ism manifests differently and differs per region (with similarities of course).
P.S. Don’t use oppression for shock-value. Take care in your selection of what you show, what you tell and how you portray everything. These are sensitive topics!
~ Mod Alice
Part of bettering a society is how willing the oppressor group is to acknowledge what they did. Germany, at least from my naïve American “but my dad worked over there” perspective, seems to be contrite about what they did and I bear no ill will towards present-day Germans for what their grandparents did to mine. America seems to have its head up its butt in some ways about treatment of Black people in the past which leads to continued bleh-ness. So if you want the peace you write to be genuine, have the oppressors’ grandkids be totally “yes, our ancestors fucked up” so that the other group will have a reason to trust that they’re not the same way.
~Shira
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Should I make art? A Flowchart. #theatrehacks #infographic #actuallyuseful #semihelpful
weneeddiversebooks
“Part of loving yourself is loving the skin you’re in. I mean this metaphorically and literally, but right now I’m focusing on the literal meaning. I’m Jamaican-American and my husband is American of Korean descent. Our daughter’s skin colour is brown and I need to teach her to love the skin she’s in. How do I do that in a country with as huge a race problem as America? America is a country that loves the theory that all men are created equal, but doesn’t love the practice.
How do I teach her that she’s smart and beautiful and that she can be anyone she wants to be when the country and media tell her otherwise? Or completely erases her outright? How many cartoons and TV shows feature only white boys and girls? How many black and brown and Asian characters (if you can find any at all) are relegated to the position of lowly side-kick?”
sweetlittlevampire
sweetlittlevampire
This is a very considerate gift I got from @skellingcrow yesterday. I met up with her, @abschaumno1 / @alexreadsboooks and @devilishangel4eva to have a movie night, and she brought gifts. I don´t talk too much about my witchling inclinations to my friends, partially because I don´t feel confident enough to do so, and also because I am unsure as to how people are going to react.
But she sure as hell has seen me talk about it here on tumblr, so she gave me these two bottles with the words: “Hey, I´ve read you´re making Moon Water so I brought you these little bottles, so you can always take a bit of it with you.” I use a one liter bottle for my Moon Water, so these are very handy. Plus they´re super pretty, and I love the little pendants on each of them (a moon made of polymer clay, I believe, and a key, as a nod to Hecate).
It felt a bit like “I have no idea what you´re doing or why, but you´re my friend, and I support you being happy”, and I just thought that was the sweetest thing.
(She also gave me the exact same notebook that I already have. I love notebooks, so I spray painted the cover. Now I have two!)
sweetlittlevampire
sweetlittlevampire
Okay so a real pet peeve of mine is when people are using stuff like “a coffin for _____” or “please die” if they want to express that a person or a group of people should stop, back off, or shut up. Or even worse, “go kill yourself” to express disagreement, or even disgust.
I am very much aware that it´s not to be taken literal, but…I don´t know. Wishing death upon someone is something that entirely rubs me the wrong way, even if it´s being done metaphorically. It´s something I would never do - I would feel like absolute shit if someone would actually take it seriously (hey, things like suicidal tendencies and depression do exist), and as someone who has lost loved ones, I can only imagine what grief their relatives and friends would have to go through just because some douche on the internet tried to tell them to go away, and it pushed them over the edge.
Maybe that´s just me, but…don´t do it, please.
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