#hispanic representation

Yo, another sky kid oc. Juanito is a newer sky kid oc of mine, and I just haven't gotten around with sharing them yet. They are a bit on the fluffy side compared to other sky kids because they love visiting granny every day and eating as many buns as she can make.

My reason for creating Juanito? Hispanic rep for my homies

TLDR: I'm a Hispanic-American woman raised by a Central American father who loved musicals before he could even speak English to understand them.

I love seeing other Hispanic men embracing this form of expression and engaging in the community to show that loving musicals doesn't make you "white" or "gay".

If you want a more in-depth explanation of what JRM and LMM mean to me and my family, please read below.

Now, I hate that the are not solving the problem with the representation on Big Sky, even after the people behind it said they listened and that their "eyes were opened." So very much fuck them for that. But this show is all about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirits (MMIWG2S) epidemic that has been going on since the colonizers came to the US.

It also has diverse representation with Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, and (accurately casted) Asian representation.

And huge bonus points: Irene Bedard is on the cast. If you don't know that name, you absolutely know her most famous character:

That's right, Irene Bedard played Pocahontas. All problems with that movie aside, she has played one of the most famous Indigenous people ever on screen. I was thrilled to see her name in the credits! I had no idea she was going to be on this.

Please check out this show! Not only is it important, it's actually very good! Certainly miles better then most of the crap that is getting out nowadays. And I hate mystery/procedural type shows, but I very much enjoyed what they have going on here.

Oh! And for those of you who react to things visually, like the coloring of shows and whatnot, there is something about the setting and architecture and color of this show that just makes you feel like you're breathing fresh air. So, that was wonderful.

Please, PLEASE, check this show out!

For Hispanic Heritage Month, I thought I’d make my own version of DP’s most popular girl in Casper High, A-Lister Paulina Sanchez!!!💖✨💖✨💖✨💖

ok so today Sony announced that there next Spider-man related film is a movie about El Muerto staring Bad Bunny

Now I’m pretty sure most of you when you heard this news where like this

Now as someone who actually knows who this is because I read the comic he’s in, and being Hispanic myself I was like this

Yeah I’m not at all excited by this at all, if anything I feel insulted, this is Sony’s big Spider-man related announcement, a one off villain who only appeared in two issues of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man, (literary all the images there using for the promotion come from those two issues) yes a side comic not even the main Amazing Spider-man comic, this is suppose to get us excited to see more of these Sony marvel movies, really.

And what makes this worse to me is that Sony is playing this up as a big diversity win, “The First Hispanic lead Superhero movie” and being Mexican myself I feel insulted, I can guarantee that no Hispanic nerds where asking for this, no one was asking for an El Muerto movie, and to think that this good enough to get that win is insulting, like we will just take anything

You know why Black fans love characters like, Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Storm, it’s not just because there black, it’s because there black and are cool, and so they can see themselves being cool as well, just being visible is not enough, we also need to be seen as cool, and appealing, and trust me El Muerto is not cool at all.

On top of all of this, Sony scraping past the bottom of the Spider-man barrel to find there Hispanic lead superhero movie is unnecessary, seeing as there are plenty of Hispanic/Latino Spider-man characters to pick from who are not only much more recognizable, but are simply much cooler than El Muerto

You have Miguel O’Hara AKA Spider-man 2099

You have Anya Corazon AKA Spider-girl/ Araña

You have Anton Miguel Rodriquez AKA Tarantula

First off, I loved this movie. The music slaps, the story is beautiful, the art--holy shit. But I’ve been noticing unfortunately, some really huge misunderstandings between people’s views of characters on the movie or how its portrayed. I’ve seen a lot of the Latinx/Hispanic community rightfully voicing their issues with people hijacking this movie’s meaning. I’m not part of the Latinx/Hispanic community, but I’m more than willing to echo these complaints and concerns because it needs to be said.

Overall, Encanto is a character based story. It is a generational trauma story. A bunch of people saw themselves in different characters and are using the characters to express their own family issues online and that's absolutely great. And that transcends backgrounds easily which only adds to how good a movie this is. 

But mostly, I’ve been hearing issues with the queer community (specifically white queer people) framing the healing and growth as “coming out” and that’s been seen to overshadow the more intended meaning. Isabella’s differently colored dress is one of the biggest arguing points I’ve seen like “oh she was secretly gay the whole time and that's why she didn’t want to marry the suave guy (I totally blanked on his name)”was her authenticity coming through not...queerness. Anyone who was the golden child knows about the authenticity issue. She didn’t want to marry the man because she didn’t like the man like that. And it’s not really far-fetched to say Isa might’ve known how Dolores felt about him and didn’t want to do that to her cousin. It was very clear Abuela and dude’s mom was the one setting the two of them up, they were “perfect” it made sense. Isa probably felt like her hands were tied because she had to keep up a facade of perfection because it pleased Abuela. 

And I’m saying this as a queer/gay person myself; not everything rainbow is specifically gay! Isa’s colors were messy because she had to learn how to be herself and sometimes being yourself is not pretty or organized. She’s learning rawness, hence the mess of colors. Beautiful in its own way but not conventionally pretty. Also, do you really want to associate imperfection with gay? I thought we as a whole were trying to move past that. Because I swear the same people who are stomping up and down about this being gay and that being gay, would break down if yet another fuckng movie protrayed being gay as being imperfect or bad. 

Another thing I’ve seen along with the Latinx/Hispanic community is a lot of sexualization of characters in the movie which...stop. That community has more than enough issues with fetishization. Do not tack on more. Camillo is 15. And I state that cause it seems like he gets the worst of it. He’s a child. Enough. Bruno is at least an adult. And cool, people simp over Bruno a bit, whatever. I’ve seen some cute him and reader fics and shit. People simp over Luisa and she’s a young adult. Big strong lady attracts the wlw community, I get it. Attraction is one thing and that’s fine, but I’ve seen some fetishizing shit and no matter how “good” your intentions are, fetishizing is dehumanization at its core. And none of it is subtle. 

I’d speak more on Abuela and the skewed view she’s been given but...I haven’t seen enough of that to properly go on about it. I just want to say this is a villainless movie. Abuela has done wrong, yes, but she also makes steps to atone for that and a lot of it is her own unaddressed trauma. Is it an excuse to how she was acting? No. But that’s like...the point...of the movie!!?! It’s gonna start and end with her because Mirabel is the one who opens that opportunity to get everything aired out, she’s getting the family to start over. That includes Abuela. Which is nice in my opinion because it shows you’re never too late/too old to start making changes too. 

And I’d encourage the Latinx/Hispanic community to correct me if I’m wrong about things here, cause at the end of the day, this is your movie, your representation. You should feel inclined to speak on it and your grievances are more than valid. I truly do hope it does spark more chances for more Latinx/Hispanic based movies. 

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TLDR: People need to stop oversexualizing characters, especially Camillo, leave Abuela alone, not everything rainbow is gay or a coming out take and most importantly, listen to the Latinx/Hispanic community about discourse like this on Encanto. Listen to the people a movie reps, ffs.