May 2012
Beautiful! I wanna be her when I grow up <3
April 2012
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…
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!!
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***