i think most of the representation in hollywood is like "diversity hire." It feels like they just have these poc characters so they can classify themselves as "woke" and avoid being cancelled which i think results in these awful stereotypes and representation.

having south asian women and their plots/character revolving around sex (& often intertwined with marriage + familial/cultural oppression) is a common theme in the west to the point of having these stereotypes bleed into my childhood conversations with people who were not south asians. we are simultaneously made to be oversexualized, sexless, or oppressed/victims/trauma of s. violence. examples from the top of my head of this include esmerelda, devi, inej ghafa, jasmine, karen shetty. not saying these narratives can’t exist or even that some in isolation are bad, but they shouldn’t be the only ones for brown women and should be handled with care. we deserve to see ourselves as more, and any cultural aspects of our backgrounds not constantly defined by sexual undertones. our gender based oppression is used as characterization when deemed of use, but we are nearly always left out of mainstream western conversations surrounding feminism.

as a native indian, i feel excited whenever there is a story portraying a south asian character, doesnt matter in what light the movies/series shows them. Here we enjoy the "indian nerd with a thick accent who works at microsoft tech support" character as much as we would enjoy a "strong indian jock with a 6 pack" character(this character doesnt exist btw lol). this is because we are not the ones directly facing the consequences of this blatant stereotyping. i can only imagine how hard it is for 1st and 2nd gen south asian immigrants. and can someone please tell hollywood that no south asian who knows english speaks in that thick of an accent!!!! love the hijab(khimar?) look btw.

I think an underrated part of media is UK tv shows - they usually have fairly representative cast and their entire identity isn’t about their race or ethnicity or religion, and even then if it is the main plot point it’s usually done pretty well imo

I agree, and I think there needs to be more stories that don't revolve around trauma for POC main characters. It creates this stereotype that POC are damaged by default.

originally (not what Disney did) Little Mermaid was about Christianity and girl sacrificing her sisters and herself for "soul" and "love", so I'm really intrigued now what's new version telling.

fr fr...I had this feeling about so much own voices diverse YA ...also 🇧🇩!!

ngl but i acc agree with you! i think the representation that is being put in place is just further going along with stereotypes at least in western media as well, there's been so many shows i've seen with south asian, east asian, black etc. main characters with them being stereotyped heavily. there's always exceptions to the rule ofc but the majority is just crazy i feel like i think this is also why treasuring shows from fellow poc is also very important as you're less likely to find stereotypes then in comparison to yt run shows and also treasuring media from a person of country origin like bollywood or nollywood for an example! i am mentioning nollywood here bc idk if is a big deal over in north america but over here in the uk bc there are so many recent african immigrants have come over it is somewhat of a big deal to ppl of the african community also hope your fasting is going very well and you're having a good ramadan too alhamdulilah!

They need to expand representation to other genres. They can’t only do teen dramas because that’s putting yourself in a box.

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American Fiction was a good movie. I really liked it!

another slay video