I Believe Aang Can Save the World

theokkindofpossessed:

The differences should go without saying.

To whitewash is to lighten a character or person’s skin or make a character more eurocentric, and is incredibly common. Artists, casters, and magazine editors whitewash because they or their readers have (sub)conscious, eurocentric ideals of beauty, as…

wretchedoftheearth:

It does have actual, tangible effects on real people.

First - I’m not dark by any means and definitely have light-skinned privilege. In terms of skin color, I have to admit I never really felt that bad. Tanning got big, so my white friends wished they were around my…

^^THIS!!

afrogeekgoddess:

sophistory:

So that whole ‘The Indian Sherlock’ thing got me brooding over the shitfit some parts of fandom tend to throw at the prospect of a Holmes and/or Watson that aren’t British - and how by ‘British’, they in fact mean ‘a very narrow idea of ~Britishness~ that…

**STANDING OVATION***