Tag: gif warning

chancellornaberrie:

#i don’t think i can out into words just how pivotal this moment is #because for so long we’ve been presented this female Chinese-American Watson and decided not to question it #“why is her last name Watson? because her father’s white; let’s move on’ ’#“watson doesn’t have to be a white male; here’s proof of that!” #and that’s a perfectly fine way to engage a text#but suddenly we have this; something that engages in the complexity and cultural baggage behind that kind of name; that kind of title; #the cultural heritage and the politics of otherness vs assimilation that an immigrant’s name bears #that’s *huge* in terms of the meta-narrative and how to interpret a text because so many Holmes adaptations are just different variations o #of the same song #Joan Watson was not born a Watson; she stepped into the name #it doesn’t just challenge and update the Holmes mythos but actively interrogates it #by asking it why this narrative is a) so exclusionary and b) so stifling in its interpretations #that’s extremely meaningful in terms of how we engage with cultural symbols and a franchise as symbollic as the Holmes mythos (via @stardust-rain)

tasha-vick:

mandywondering:

As a feminist, seeing Cate Blanchett in this sort of outfit in her late 40s brings me joy, because most movies would take her age as automatically excluding her from anything even slightly sexy.

As a gay, seeing Cate Blanchett in this outfit renders me incapable of thought and speech.

jamesvega:

“It is changing because we are making it change. Not because anyone is letting us in. Everyone has a good intention, it’s just not everyone knows our story. I think people who live the stories should be the people who should tell the stories.“ – Constance Wu [x]