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Does She Pass The Ali Nahdee Test

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Anonymous asked:

For the test, does Shuri from Black Panther count?

I am going to allow myself to be clumsy with my logic here. Please keep an open heart in the comments/retweets because I definitely want perspective and would like to be corrected.

Black Panther is an interesting gray area because by definition, YES, Wakandas are Indigenous to Wakanda. Wakanda was never colonized and was able to really flourish and grow as a country/region/cultures.

At the same time I also don't want to co-opt anything. Black-Indigenous people do exist, so I don't want to erase that identity. But if I start acknowledging the characters from Black Panther as Indigenous, I don't want it to come across as trying to take away from the black community. This is why I was really relieved when (problematic coding/casting aside) Talokan was Maya because then I could be like "Oh, THIS is for us."

Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I think that's better than not giving it any thought at all. I would really love to hear from Black and Black/Indigenous people on this.

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a fashion sketch illustration of lily gladstone from the british vogue feature on killers of the flower moon. article by afua hirsch, photographs by craig mcdean, styling by edward enninful

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jessica matten (red river métis and cree) is katara’s rumoured voice actress for the upcoming 2025 movie. originally, jessica - or a representative on behalf of her - had posted that she would play katara on her company’s website, but had since taken down the post after it was discovered and circulated (likely because the information wasn’t meant to go out).

imdb still has her listed as the voice of katara (also, the title is likely going to be echoes and aftershocks?). here is a clip below of her speaking on her character in the frontier and the importance of having good representation for native women and girls. in my opinion, she definitely has the vocal similarities of mae whitman’s katara.

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Fantasy books stop having arctic kingdoms of all blond hair blue eyed white people.

So this idiot decided to write out all this nonsense then block me so I wouldn't even be able to see it which is a choice.

1) Scandinavians like Norwegians, Swedes, etc are NOT Indigenous to Scandinavia, and even the smallest amount of European historical knowledge would tell you that. Sámi and Karelians are the Indigenous peoples of the Arctic Scandinavia and Kola Peninsula. And no, historically these people, esp Sámi were not that pale so that's just ahistorical and I bet this idiot doesn't even know who the Sámi are.

2) "Mongolic" 🤮. Siberians, Mongolians, Chukchi, etc all can sometimes be pale and sometimes are not. There's literally so many darker skinned Arctic Asians esp with the Chukchi.

3) I actually never said "pale skin" in my original post. I said "blonde hair blue eyed white people" because there aren't any Indigenous Arctic people who are universally considered "white" and blonde hair and blue eyes are really uncommon in the Arctic.

4) You claimed that lighter features are advantageous in the Arctic when actually they are not. Actually scientific research shows that due to the Arctic having near constant sun exposure for half the year means sunburning is esp easy esp if you have less melanin, including in the eyes. Blue eyes esp are very sensitive to sun exposure and esp around snow can make snow blindness occur faster. So your "scientific" knowledge is wrong.

5) Arctic Natives Americans are darker because... We eat fish?????? Huh? Arctic NAs aren't even usually that much darker than Siberian Natives and dude I just gotta say, we ALL* eat fish idiot. Kinda a lot of water up there.

(Obv not all of us eat fish but a lot do, I certainly eat a whole lots of fish it's my main meat intake I don't really eat any meat besides it)

6) I am Arctic Indigenous man, and I'm not even being colorist because I do have light skin, but again this wasn't even about skin color, this was about fantasy Arctic kingdoms all looking like a nazi wet dream unless they're bandits or barbarians, THEN they aren't white and are Asian or Native American, which is obviously extremely racist.

But anyway, the Arctic is extremely diverse with thousands of ethnic groups in it, and to write Arctic kingdoms in fantasy as all white people esp all with being blonde and blue eyed (I literally listened to someone talk about one book that someone was clearly not Arctic because their hair was bleached and not naturally blonde and their eyes weren't blue enough 🤮) Or depicting Asians and Native Americans as barbaric instead which is racist and shows a significant lack of knowledge about any Arctic Indigenous people.

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