May 14th, 2010
Meanwhile, I wanted to link this all week, thanks god,
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In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night. On DC comics, racism, and Somali pirates.
this whole thing feels like a slap in the face. On a less personal level, this is indeed regressive storytelling. A black hero gets disembodied and has to share the body of his white predecessor, a black villain from back when it was acceptable for every non-white character have a reference to their ethnicity in their title gets brought back in a book where two white heroes take down a group of men who not only bring to mind the worst stereotypes and phobias about black men in the collective unconscious, but are based on real black men who have been demonised and misrepresented in Western media, all in the series which is already associated with White Power Rings.
White supremacy is not just for white nationalists, it's so embedded in our culture that people can't imagine seeing it unless one was looking for it.
Glee wins GLAAD award when it fails epically with its transmisogyny. And the comments at ONTD feminism brings the derailment to the house.
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I'm in a Reborn's mood thanks to the latest chapter (I'm easy, okay) and was about to make icons of these. But then I liked them too much in this size I guess.
So have some Suzuki Adelheid's coloring, soon to be icons maybe:
( Cut for your convenience )
Via Kynn:
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I'm in a Reborn's mood thanks to the latest chapter (I'm easy, okay) and was about to make icons of these. But then I liked them too much in this size I guess.
So have some Suzuki Adelheid's coloring, soon to be icons maybe:
( Cut for your convenience )