okay I'm not really the right messenger because I'm not mixed. but like no one is saying this and it feels very weird and frustrating to me.
in the vast majority of discussions of woc on the Pitt that I've seen, Trinity Santos is discarded. she apparently does not count. and what people use to justify this is that princess and perlah moment in s1, "I told you she was Filipina!" "but she's so white!!!"
so, since Trinity is "white passing canon confirmed in show!!!" she does not count as woc rep. this is disturbing to me. my takeaway from that moment is this: she's too white for half of her culture, (princess not clocking her) and not white enough for the other (she has most definitely experienced racial bias regardless). forgive me if I'm wrong, but I've seen that sort of thing from several mixed people.
Trinity Santos is a mixed Filipina woman, and unapologetically queer. she's great rep for several people for several different reasons. it will always be wrong for that to be erased just because you consider her "white-passing." she is to some people, she isn't to others. but she should not be erased or cast aside from the discussion of woc in the Pitt as she so often is.
part of it has to be that Trinity is very controversial. it's ridiculous to me that she is, but sure, whatever. she's not a perfect victim. she has clear faults. she's not blank, she's not a self-insert, she's a fleshed out, sometimes difficult to swallow character. and that tends to get shoved aside for characters who are more "likable." which is another fucking layer of disgusting to me. the amount of misogyny and racism that continue to be directed to her character is nothing short of appalling.
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