medievalpoc:

belakqwa:

medievalpoc:

via EvilMarguerite on Twitter

I’m against putting POC characters in tales of European origin, because, y’know, historical and ethnic accuracy is an actual thing. It’s folklore and it comes from this or that European culture so, yes, accuracy IS a thing.
BUT. I’m all for making more movies based on mythology and folklore of other cultures, for example, African or Native American ones. This I support, it would be a great thing. Because, in all honesty, no one needs Black or Asian Cinderella, that’s just stupid (and, yes, inaccurate). but everyone needs more tales about a child lost in the forest meeting spirits and forest gods. Or at least lets make a movie using an Asian variant of Cinderella fairy tale, there’s more than one, y’know? Because I’m all for accuracy and I’m all for representing more than one dominant culture in multicultural society.

Are you for real? I bolded the above statements because you know what?

*I* needed a Black Cinderella. And I bet a lot of readers here did, too. We still do.

Because of colonialism, most of us have been force-fed European history, mythology, fairy tales, and Medievalism; told it’s the best, the highest, the only. It’s everywhere we look: movies, cartoons, books, tv shows, and we’re told that this is something you are required to learn, and in some cases, the only context you’re allowed for your imagination, but it’s not really for you. It’s not about you. Because you aren’t “Historically Accurate.”

That can go to hell and so can you. Because you know what? Our histories, once again, because of colonialism, kidnapping, enslavement, genocide, are marginalized, misunderstood, and misrepresented. They’re stolen from us and given to white people considered “more qualified” to tell them, and they make millions of dollars off of those misrepresentations. Entire libraries and histories were purposely, methodically burned in order to disempower people of color. These stories, when they survive, are made illegal to teach, specifically because they empower people of color! People of color are removed from their own stories and their own contexts and replaced with white people, because Ridley Scott “can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such.I’m just not going to get it financed.”

You claim you’re all for accuracy? And yet, a “Black or Asian Cinderella” is in your words, “just stupid”??? None of these women are “Accurate” to base a Cinderella on??

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All of these women are just automatically disqualified from having their own Cinderella Story because of their races? No matter how “Historically Accurate” they are?

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I think we can have both, all, and more. We can tell our own stories, make our own media, AND have a Black AND and Asian AND a Native American AND a Pacific Islander AND a Latina and any other Cinderella we choose. Our stories are worth telling, and for some of us, whose cultures have been crushed by multiple genocides, who have been colonized, who have had our imaginations replaced with Eurocentrism, we are allowed and entitled to our own Cinderella stories, whatever new and beautiful form they take.