#filipinx representation

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J. Torres on Weaving Filipino Mythology Into Lola: A Ghost Story

I love that we’re trying to make the characters more diverse, but allow me to add to the discussion. 

The Denali sisters should be Filipina. Let me explain:

So there are two main Filipinx stories about “vampires” that involve beautiful women drinking blood, the “mandurugo” and the “manananggal”. This is going to be mostly about the mandurugo, but feel free to read up on the manananggal cause they're cool. So the mandurugo are these young beautiful women that seduce men by day and then at night they have wings and drink the blood of the men they seduce. They have these hollow tongues to help them slurp up the blood and maybe other stuff if you want and its cool af. 

You might be thinking, “but phil-dwyer-stan-account, that doesn't match the description of the twilight vampires!” Okay well, neither do most depictions of vampires. Also, Smeyer said that the Denali sister were the ones who inspired the succubus legend. The succubi and the mandurugo have a lot in common. My point is that there are vampires in Filipinx folklore and they seduce men in order to drink their blood. 

Another thing is it would be fine for them to still be in Alaska. Asian people make up the third-highest racial group in Alaska(following white and native American/Alaskan) at 5.4% with Filipinx people making up 4.4 percent(an overwhelming amount of Asian people in Alaska are Filipinx). So there’s an argument to be made for them being Filipinx in Alaska.

Also, most of the Asian representation in the media(and there isn't much) tends to be East Asian and I want all Asian people to be represented in the media. (I still want East Asian vampires I just think the Denali Sisters should be Filipina). 

I just think that Kate(and Tanya and Irina but Kates power and relationship with Garrett would play against stereotypes of the quiet submissive Asian woman) being a powerful outspoken Asian woman of Filipinx decent would be so cool and I feel robbed that it isn't what we got. 

(Also I know that it’s messy cause Carmen and Eleazar are Spanish but I have some ideas about that too)

Sincerely,

An Asian woman that's tired of a lack of representation

Randy Ribay, whom we interviewed along with Sandhya Menon and Gloria Chao about their books