May 2013
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“The idea for East West is to be vital and relevant in terms of subject matter...”
– From my friend Renee Camus’ article on East West Players’ performance of the original version of Chess (not the watered-down rewrite - I like my Chess without happy endings, thank you).
I need to figure out how to see this show.
And yes, obviously Anatoly can be played by an African-American...
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This is all I'm going to say:
feministdisney:
canonita:
doggedlyjohn:
thedisneydifference:
Pocahontas is complete fiction. I get it. It is a Disney fairy tale. Not an actual interpretation of what happened in real life. That was never what it was meant to be. Read the original interpretation of ANY Disney fairy tale. NONE of them follow the original story. Pocahontas is a Disney fairy tale like the rest. That...
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Talkin' 'Bout Star Trek: Into Darkness:
icanbebadifiwant:
Part 1
The abysmal representation and treatment of female characters in the AbramsVerse:
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“When I was a kid, you know I immigrated to the States in 1978, and I’m six years...”
– John Cho (x)
The only Asians I remember seeing on mainstream TV when I was a kid were Sulu on Star Trek, nameless Asians loading trucks in the background or dying on MASH (which was all about funny lovable white US Americans waging war on Asians), and the “ancient Chinese secret” Calgon laundry...
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“I’m not J.J. Abrams, who’s ultimately responsible. I’m just his Asian puppet....”
– John Cho (x)
yo my heart is racing at the guts it takes to say something like this knowing full well what could happen. damn!!!!
(via strugglingtobeheard)
WELL GODDAMN!!!!
John Cho has become my favorite fucking actor ever……
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John has been growing bolder and bolder as of late....
starrcat asked: So my husband and I were discussing Khan and Abrams's insistence the villain wouldn't be Khan. Considering Del Toro was originally rumored to be cast, but dropped out, I wonder if Abrams cast a white actor as one more attempt at misdirection to "trick" and "surprise" his audience at the reveal that Khan -was- the villain all along. Do you think that might have been...
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“The casting of Cumberbatch was a mistake on the part of the producers. I am not...”
– Star Trek actor Garrett Wang is coolly generating a discussion with his fans on the whitewashing in Star Trek Into Darkness on his twitter page.
fannishcodex asked: Any response to saying since Benicio Del Toro dropped the Khan role, casting was pressed for time and they had to go with Cumberbatch? (I'm wary of that, but curious about your response to such a thing.)
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i think the thing with microaggressions
biyuti:
is that they are like water
slowly and inexorably
eroding
your confidence
sense of self
you
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Reflections on Opening Night Action: A Primer on...
bustingbuntyberman:
Over the past few weeks, I have joined with a growing number of Queer South Asian, Asian, Pacific Islander activists, artists, and organizers in protesting the violent transphobia and cultural appropriation and misrepresentation in the new Off-Broadway musical, Bunty Berman Presents. (For a detailed critique of the several problematic components of the musical, see my...
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“While yellowface representations may give us an externalized image to let us...”
– Kent A. Ono and Vincent N. Pham, Asian Americans and the Media (via anniepology)
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“As unbelievable as [White Dude Super Detective (WDSD)] characters are, they...”
– Tamara Winfrey Harris | Privilege And The White Dude Super-Detective (via trollny-stark)
#i still remember bossymarmalade and glockgal’s deconstruction of white privilege in supernatural #and how dean and sam worked so well #because no one ever questioned white dudes #even when they were sketchy...
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wherenowomenhavegonebefore:
No, Ricardo Montalban wasn’t Indian. He looked more like my Nana and her brothers and sisters, olive skinned and dark haired, spoke like them in a softly accented English. He looked more like the Gonzalezes, Almeidas, and Reals that fill the roots of my family tree than a Singh, that is true.
But television casting, like most other racial matters in the late 60s,...
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“Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always make a trip to...”
– Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan on being detained at the U.S. Airport—twice. (Once, he was detained while promoting a film called “My Name is Khan” which was ironically about a person with the last name Khan suffering from repeated racial profiling.)
Multiple actors and...
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“I wish people wouldn’t just see me as the Asian girl who beats everyone up, or...”
– Lucy Liu (via secondscreenmosaic)
alostbird:
I’m really tired of seeing people excuse whitewashing of Star Trek Into Darkness because they didn’t want a PoC villain. There’s nothing wrong with characters of color who are villains. There is something wrong with making them one dimensional, stereotypical villains
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“For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives...”
– Carrie Rickey
(via fireworkselectricbright)
“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay...
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“I think it is atrocious!!!… Since I am no longer with the company, I’m sure they...”
– Original Brave Director Brenda Chapman chimes in on Merida’s Redesign | The Mary Sue Here’s my opinion on the matter: They should not redesign Merida to fit the Princess line; they should change the Princesses line to fit Merida. The positive message she sends to young girls is that you don’t have...
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“In the original Trek, Khan, with his brown skin, was an Übermensch,...”
– Marissa Sammy on Star Trek: Into Whiteness.
perfect commentary which parallels what Rawles was saying earlier about the possibility of Moriarty being a person of color:
“…The actual issue is that black people aren’t often allowed to play full and complete characters, and an antagonist who isn’t...
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“The musical Miss Saigon has been running for over 20 years, which means...”
– Poet Bao Phi on the play Miss Saigon. Despite continual protests from the Asian American community, theater companies like Towne Theater in Columbia, South Carolina continue to perform the racist musical—and to add insult to injury, this production has an all-white cast. The show is opening...
kinvy asked: The official release says film will be about "brilliant robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada and his team of first-time crime fighters" so I think it's safe to say we'll be getting an Asian American lead.
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Disney Announces 'Big Hero 6' As First Animated...
robotmutant:
Fresh off a disastrous attempt to trademark Dia de los Muertos , Disney has announced another, hopefully much better planned out expedition into multiculturalism. Big Hero 6 , Disney’s long-awaited first animated Marvel movie, will be directed by Don Hall ( Winnie the Pooh ) and is set for release in 2014 and takes place in the fictional city of San Fransokyo. I actually...
catseatyourface asked: I love your blog, even though it makes me lose faith in humanity *~*
jb-the-hunter asked: You guys are bitching about Ben Kingsly playing the Mandarin when you should be bitching about Guy Pierce playing the Mandarin. I thought what they did with Ben Kingsly was brilliant, but it would have been cool if Aldrich Killian could have also doubled for the modern businessman Mandarin and been played by an Asian actor. Getting an Asian to play the "fake" Mandarin would have helped...
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Disney Wants To Trademark 'Dia De Los Muertos' →
On May 1, Disney filed trademark applications to secure ‘Dia de los Muertos’ across multiple platforms for an upcoming Pixar film.
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more like Star Trek Into WHITENESS amirite
*rimshot*
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Skin Color
oftheforest:
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starryeyedheroine:
I just would like to educate the hipster idiots on this website who think “olive toned” skin means someone of darker skin color. Olive toned skin means your skin has a yellow-green hue. It’s a common skin tone for those of Asian, Northern African, Southern European, and Middle Eastern heritage.
My paternal grandmother is 100%...
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“In “Iron Man 3”, Ben Kingsley plays the...”
– Reuters: “‘Iron Man’ shows Hollywood’s bent to take on China censors’ steely grip.”
Well, if you have to change the name of the character…
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“When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy...”
– Retta, on the roles she would be offered in Hollywood.
“Casting directors, who don’t necessarily know me — all they get are pictures. So they see your face, and they’re like, ‘Oh, we can place her in this or that.’ “
Check out NPR’s story on actors of...
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“It’s not that easy to be an actor of Asian ancestry in Britain or America. There...”
– Ricky S. Sekhon, on playing Osama Bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty.
The next week, I was offered the part of the world’s most notorious terrorist. My first reaction was an expletive that cannot be printed here.
I am a 29-year-old native Londoner, a moderate Sikh with a drama degree from Royal...
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Before anyone even asks (politely or not)
No, we’re not aggrieved by the possible casting of an actor of color as the Human Torch. The casting of an actor of color to play the Human Torch does not take away from the number of opportunities white actors have to play characters in The Fantastic Four.
In fact, there will almost certainly be more white male actors in the film (some at higher billing) than whoever gets cast to play...
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