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STOP HAVING WHITE VOICE ACTORS PLAYING NON-WHITE ROLES
stop depriving non-white actors opportunities to act and get recognized!
Voice actors often don’t know who they’re reading for or what franchise they’re in (that’s what the strike was recently about, so they’d know whether they were in a small first time game or the 4th installment of a major franchise, if they were replacing a beloved voice actor, etc.) so please don’t harass the actors, until recently they legally didn’t have the right to know who they were reading for and were usually not told until months or even years later.
Definitely go after casting, directors, and studios executives. Those are the people making the decisions.
They still don’t have the right to know. They got fucking nothing out of that strike. They can know the code name (which might be a serial number or whatever) and if it’s a sequel. That’s it. That’s the extent of the “transparency” they won from the strike.
As a perfect example of this controversy, if you haven’t looked up interviews surrounding Laura Bailey as Nadine Ross, it’s worth it.
Laura Bailey herself explained that when she auditioned for the role, she was given no information about what the character looked like. It was only after she was hired and arrived for recording that she was shown concept art and discovered the character was a WOC. She was uncomfortable about the situation.
Meanwhile, Neil Druckmann revealedthat they were already working on concept art of the character when they hired Laura Bailey. They finalized the character’s design as a WOC after they’d hired a white voice actress, so that was a conscious decision. He was also very flippant about the situation as a whole.
Like people above have said: Yes, whitewashed casting is a legitimate and real issue. But unlike actors in film and stage, voice actors are often totally blind to what they’re auditioning for. They get fucked by NDAs and legal red tape bullshit. Go after the casting directors and execs and high-position game devs that knowingly make these decisions.
This is an important word.
ALERT! There’s a black, queer, magical girl squad saving the world with cupcakes, sparkles, high kicks, and sass <3 <3 <3
Sooooo happy with the progress of these new LGBTQ prints! MuseTap Studios does such adorable chibi art, and I got to play around with doing backgrounds ^___^ Please feel free to share this with EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!
And a lot of us on the crew are not straight and are not white, and these topics don’t seem like adult topics to us, because they were part of our experience growing up. The more I work on this show, the more incredible it seems to me that these topics are not usually discussed in media for kids. Kids not only get it, many of them are experiencing it themselves, sometimes with no context to tell them their experience makes sense, and almost always without a fun sci-fi fantasy take on that experience featuring wacky cartoon aliens. I’d really like to rectify that.
I need to see two black women fall in love on screen
I can’t watch black media without it being tailored for straight people. I can’t watch queer media without it being completely white. I’m sick of having to imagine what a relationship would look like outside
of these constricting boundaries.
All of
my queer black friends are imitating heterosexism in their
relationships because that’s what they’ve been conditioned to accept as “normal.” Ideas of what it means to be
dominant and submissive are predicated on heavily on masculinity being
the pinnacle of control and assertion. It’s like if there’s no dom/sub then it’s not a “real” relationship. But in order for someone to feel strong, their partner must be perceived as being weak.
This constricting, binary way of thinking is toxic and often goes unchallenged, especially in the queer community. It’s painfully obvious that the lack of black queer relationships in the media has created a vacuum in which we feel pressured to mimic the dominant society’s practices. We can do better. Discussions about people at the intersection of blackness and queerness is something that doesn’t get talked about enough and I’m over it. No more silence.
I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll bring it up again.
When I was 18 years old and experiencing my first girl crush, I actually thought I couldn’t be into girls. Not just because I was worried over people’s reactions, but I actually thought queerness was a white thing. Because that’s all I ever saw. Any LGBT character I saw in the media was white. So I actually thought, “This isn’t a thing with black people.”
Well, I suppose I should take that back, because on rare occasions the sassy gay black friend made an appearance, but heaven forbid that character actually got shown in any meaningful relationships beyond giving the heterosexual friend advice.
And I suppose there’s the exotic black woman. So being into girls just added to her sexiness.
But an actual meaningful relationship? HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Hell, even the Stonewall movie whitewashed the black, queer characters, and that was supposed to be a movie based on actual history. And this movie was released in 2015. Imagine what kind of impact that could’ve had on the black, queer crowd, to see those people on screen aiding in the LGBT movement. But nope. Guess we’re meant to be sassy friends or exotic eye candy.
I’ve been in a relationship with the same woman for 14 years. Tell me again how my relationship isn’t meaningful?
This is the story of a geeky anime/gaming gal by the name of Chibi. Please fasten your seat belts and prepare for... some sort of ride? Oh! I love to write, and I also love doing crafty things. I go to conventions with my partner and sell woodburned things, clocks, mirrors, and more! So expect to see those on here too :)
