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I’m still processing. And I’m realizing that I’m not that affected as I could’ve been, because I was prepared. It’s not my first fandom. And not my first encounter with fandom racism. With a fandom war rooted in racism. Mentally I have been prepared. Probably since day one. One has to always be prepared in a diverse fandom with a clear white favorite. And probably because I’ve been through this already, not once, not twice, I knew who to follow. The trick is to never follow a rabid white guy stan. That way when shit hits the fan, and it definitely will, one way or another, you will be safe. You won’t have to unfollow, block or be disappointed. You won’t see nasty posts on your dash. You won’t drown in racism.

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Da'Vine Joy Randolph

2024 Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress in The Holdovers

#da'vine joy randolph #phoitoset #hall of fame #oscars #black women representation #reblog

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LUPITA NYONG'O presenting DA'VINE JOY RANDOLPH's nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Holdovers at the 96th Academy Awards

#lupita nyong'o #da'vine joy randolph #oscars #black women representation #gifset #hall of fame #reblog

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EMMY WINNERS! Ayo Edebiri, Quinta Brunson, & Niecy Nash

#quinta brunson #ayo edebiri #niecy nash #black women representation #gifset #emmys 2024 #media representation #representation in media #hall of fame

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Ayo Edebiri Wins Best Television Female Actor – Musical/Comedy Series I 81st Annual Golden Globes

#ayo edebiri #media representation #golden globes #representation in media #black women representation #hall of fame #gifset

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One of the first things that Andre Braugher said to me when he arrived to set for this shoot was that this was his very first solo magazine cover. I thought surely he had to be mistaken, even though he would know his life best lol. I’d been watching Andre on my screen for what felt like my whole life, playing some serious curmudgeon or some police figure. How could he have never been given a solo magazine cover? We talked at great length about this and about how completely ordinary it is for Black artists across all genres to be snubbed and denied such opportunities. However, having been recently nominated for an Emmy for his role on @brooklyn99 , he was having a moment and he was excited. Before the shoot, I went into his dressing room and met @stricola and we talked wardrobe. I was madly in love with this particular sweater that she pulled for the shoot. Andre, not so much, but he was game to try it on. The shoot took place during the summer of 2020, protests over the murder of George Floyd were still globally unfolding. Andre and I disagreed on some things but I really appreciated the vivid, lively conversation. Even with the tensions we had a wonderful time. Lots of jokes, lots of laughter. Andre’s laugh was booming and filled the studio with his gorgeous tenor. At the end of the shoot, he expressed so much gratitude. I was so proud to have been able to celebrate him during such a special moment in his career. He was unbelievably kind and I just wanted to make an iconic image of this under-appreciated gem of a person. When the magazine came out I was told that he really loved the images and that he thought sweater was an excellent choice, iconic being the word he insisted upon. He didn’t win that Emmy, which would have been his third, but I’m happy that he got that moment. I’m still so sad that it took so long. Rest well, Mr. Braugher!

x

#andre braugher #photoset #quote #media representation #hall of fame

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Celebrating Black History Month First Black Women to win an Emmy in that Category

#black women representation #emmy awards #hall of fame #gifset

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".....According to sources who worked on the show, some of whom used their first or full names, Beharie showed a trepidation about the role, a massive and potentially multiyear undertaking. (Ryan likens this to James Gandolfini on the set of The Sopranos, as detailed in Difficult Men.) But both she and Mison showed difficulty adjusting to being the leads of the show, with co-star Jones telling Ryan that both were “out of their depths” and “no one was helping them.”

Amid that, “there was a lot of creative floundering” from the show’s leadership team from the very beginning, one person who worked on the show told Ryan, noting early “red flags” early over the way “problems were handled and the way blame was assigned — or reassigned.” As both Mison and Beharie went “through steep learning curves that sometimes involved friction with colleagues” wrote Ryan, Beharie’s growing pains were treated differently.

“When a bunch of white guys say a person of color is difficult, I tend to assume that there’s a lot more to that story,” one source said. “I found her to be pleasant, extremely talented, and an actor who was adjusting to being a lead. There are growing pains with that. In the time I was there, where the discrepancy came in was how their growing pains were viewed and handled.”

- Sleepy Hollow Created An Us vs Her Environment for Star Nicole Beharie, "Burn it Down" book claims

Where my Shady Hollow denizens at? T'is time to gather once more.

#sleepy hollow #nicole beharie #maureen ryan #media accountability #misogynoir #black women representation #media representation #media racism #racism in media #representation in media #reblog #Mod P.

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Fandoms will ship two het men who simply breathe next to each other but god forbid a Black woman has a relationship with or even just chemistry with the popular male lead. And this happens in EVERY fandom (see tags for examples) with a prominent Black female character. They were even vehemently against Miles Morales and the Black spider girl (Margo).

It’s just very telling that certain people are suddenly “platonic love/besties/sibling energy only otherwise the show is ruined!!” when the fem character is Black.

It’s ok to not ship characters, but the overwhelming backlash to these specific ones has been so ridiculous and very obviously racially motivated. There are articles now discussing whether harmless shipping of two fictional adult characters is acceptable, and on the cover of them is typically an interracial pairing involving a Black woman…

#fandom racism #racism in fandom #coded racism #shipping #antiblackness #misogynoir #black women representation #the bear #meta #reblog #Mod P.

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not everything is about ‘seeking representation’ sometimes you just want to put on something fun and not only have to see white people in it

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In the midst of that amazing time in my life came the worst, and that was when my friends just started dropping dead. They were sick today and dead tomorrow. And when you would go to the hospital to look for you friend they would be out in the hallway on a gurney pushed up against a wall dying for help, dying for love, dying to be saved. And some of them with that sign on their gurney that said "do not touch". And they suffered, and people wanted to act like they weren't good people, kind people, wonderful people, somebody's son, somebody's daughter, somebody. // SHERYL LEE RALPH receiving the Human Rights Campaign's National Ally for Equality Award 2022. (x)

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On needing a comprehensive harassment policy

We've been getting some confusion about the part of our demands that talks about OTW needing to consider "off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users" - which is fair, because I realize that could sound like "OTW needs to monitor/regulate what happens on other platforms" - but that's NOT what we meant by it.

What we meant is: if AO3 users are getting harassed on AO3, and they provide proof in their abuse claim of off-site harassment, that off-site harassment should also be considered as context for making a decision in the abuse claim.

An example of this - which we have permission to share - is what happened to an abuse claim filed by Dr. Rukmini Pande. We won't be linking directly to what happened because we are not trying to target individual users here, but all of what happened is still in public record.

Dr. Pande, a scholar of fan studies who wrote the seminal text on race and fandom, talked on her twitter account a few years ago about a Nazi fic on AO3 that was not only incredibly harmful, offensive, and antisemitic, but where the author had been sending their friends to harass people who criticized the fic. The author proceeded to add a tag to the fic that said "Rukmini Pande Lied About This Fic".

Because Dr. Pande tweeted her criticism from the account with her full name, people said this wasn't doxxing - which is true. But the author of the fic also was tweeting publicly to entertain the idea of reporting Dr. Pande to her employer, and they were also once again sending friends to harass her on Twitter.

When AO3 considered this abuse claim, Dr. Pande provided proof of what was happening on Twitter to show that the author of the fic added the tag of her full name with the intention of inciting harassment to her. But the AO3 Abuse team said that this did not constitute harassment under their TOS.

Cases like that are what we mean by OTW considering "off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users". Obviously OTW cannot control what is happening on Twitter, or Tumblr, or any other platform. But their Abuse team should be able to consider off-site harassment, when they are given proof of it, in determining whether a case on AO3 is harassment or not.

(Also if you aren't familiar with Dr. Pande's work, her book Squee From The Margins: Fandom and Race is not only fantastic but was the first to comprehensively look at fandom racism, and she also edited a great anthology of articles on race and fandom called Fandom, Now In Color: A Collection of Voices. If you can't afford to buy them, you can request that your local library stock them!)

#fandom racism #racism in fandom #fanfiction #ao3 #meta #reblog

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How to stan the white guy with minimal contribution to fandom's racism problem

Look, I get it. You're obsessed with the white guy. Maybe two of them together. And maybe your series has one or more main Black characters or Asian characters or a brown Latino star. You're here because of the irresistible pull of that white guy (or two), who is fascinating beyond belief. His acting is above anything anyone has ever seen. When you write about him, the words just pour out.

This is a fan-centered space so I feel confident in saying — we've all been there. I'm not going to lie and say I've never been invested in white characters. There's nothing innately wrong with liking white characters (that would be silly).

But when it comes to the characters of color in your chosen media, you have a choice. 

You're unmoved by the Black major characters and find them unrelatable? Ok. If you're not able to keep that to yourself, prepare for a discussion about the empathy gap. Because we literally do not need content about your inability to relate to CoC if the intention is for it to stand as some kind of undebatable truth about the inferiority of CoC.

And then there are the deflections. At the first mention of sidelining CoC it comes like clockwork: They're poorly written! The acting is sub par! The character is just not interesting! It's got nothing to do with race!

Except when it happens over and over and over again, it does. It just does.

I can't count how many times a conversation on Reddit or the Jedi Council Forum (or anywhere, really) started out about Finn and became all about Kylo Ren five replies in. Just today I saw the same thing on Tumblr, a post about the poor treatment of Lucas from Stranger Things, and in the comments people were talking about Billy and his trauma. 

If you stan the white guy(s) and don't want to be perceived as part of fandom's racism problem, do not hijack threads about CoC. Not every conversation has to center your guy. Conversations that center Black characters, and I can't stress this enough, do not take anything away from your white fave(s). Nothing at all. It's not a competition.

Stop making excuses about why you don't like the Black character. No one really cares until you start tearing them down with excuses. Don't come up with meta about how the Black hero is a villain, actually, and the white bad guy is a tortured sweet baby who represents all of the forgotten children of the world. It's not clever, it's not good or interesting meta, it's transparent empathy gap racism. 

And, again, that will be discuseed. You can't believe in "maximum inclusion" and draw the line at discussing racism. Responding to racism is not breaking the fandom social contract. It's a long established part of fandom by now.

It really shouldn't bother white guy stans so much to see a Black character in a major role in genre media to the point where they feel the need to aggressively dismiss them and their fans. Not doing that, at least, should be easy. Not doing that means that maybe that fandom critical post about racism isn't about you.

It's not about white guy characters or even their inevitable popularity. It's about fan behavior toward characters and fans of color, whether it's on Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit or AO3.

#fandom racism #racism in fandom #coded racism #meta #reblog #Mod P.

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BEEF starring Steven Yeun and Ali Wong. 

Premieres April 6 on Netflix.

The 10-episode series follows two strangers: Danny Cho, a failing contractor with a chip on his shoulder, and Amy Lau, a self-made entrepreneur with a picturesque life. These two very different people hail from polar-opposite worlds, but their worlds collide almost literally during a road rage incident. And, as both become hellbent on revenge, they find themselves embarking upon an all-consuming feud that threatens to upend their lives forever.

#beef netflix #ali wong #steven yeun #media representation #representation in media #news #gifset

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the real joint best supporting actress winners yes

#Angela Bassett #stephanie hsu #woc representation #photos #reblog

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"Nice to see you again."

Ruth E. Carter becomes the first Black woman to win two Oscars. She accepts the award for Best Costume Design for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

#ruth e carter #black panther wakanda forever #Oscars #media representation #black women representation #representation in media #news #video #reblog

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Everything Everywhere All at Once Passes Return of the King as Most-Awarded Movie Ever

Everything Everywhere All at Once can add another historic win to its list.

According to IGN’s calculations, the multiversal hit is now the most-awarded film ever with 158 accolades to date from major critics organizations and awards bodies. This spot was previously held by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which earned 101 major awards by IGN’s math. (via IGN)

#everything everywhere all at once #film #news #media representation #representation in media #reblog #article