#hispanic representation

Rita Moreno became the first Hispanic woman to win an Academy Award for West Side Story — and almost nobody talks about what it took to get there. A suicide attempt after Marlon Brando. Years of being offered nothing but stereotyped roles because studios couldn't see past her ethnicity. And then, decades later, becoming the only EGOT winner of her generation.

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