#i hate!

It’s great that DC cast a black woman as Catwoman! But why couldn’t they have cast an actress who was ALSO Latina, given that Selina is half Cuban in the comics? Racial minorities are not interchangeable, DC, and it’s not okay to actively erase Selina’s Latinidad. Why couldn’t they have cast an Afrolatina actress? There’s no shortage of Afrolatina actresses.

Oh, and let’s not forget that time DC had Bane, who’s half Latino in the comics (his mother is from Santa Prisca, a fictional Caribbean island), played by the very white, very non-Latino Tom Hardy IN THE SAME MOVIE where half-Cuban Selina Kyle was played by the very white, very non-Latina Anne Hathaway.

It’s just so disappointing to have zero rep in big budget, liveaction superhero films, to the point that characters like Selina who are canonically Latinx in the comics are taken away from us. All we’re left with are thieves (Luis from Ant Man — he’s fun, but the society-wide criminalization and disproportionate incarceration of Latinos is a real problem) and, like, that side-of-the-road strawberry salesman in Iron Man 2, who I don’t think even gets any lines. (Tony LIVES IN LA, IN CALIFORNIA, A STATE WHERE LATINOS ARE THE RACIAL MAJORITY, on land that was Mexican territory until it was stolen away from us by the US, but the only Latino character Marvel could drum up over the course of three separate IM movies is a strawberry salesman who never even gets to talk??? That. It just. It makes me SO ANGRY. We’re not just silent servants, maids, and criminals, thank you very much!)