It’s about time, guys.
Expand your ideas of what your characters' backgrounds could be...
Why not have a kickass space pilot who happens to be Latinx, you know? It turns out that space pilot is pretty good at bringing home awards.
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...and give us a wider variety of roles!
That means
1) expanding the KIND of parts that call for Latinx actors (because, according to a 2014 Columbia University Study, "17.7% of Latino film characters and 24.2% of TV characters were linked to crime,” a number which has quadrupled since 1994), AND
2) featuring more Latinx actors in roles that don't necessarily require a specific ethnicity.
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Understand that we are not interchangeable.
You'd think that's pretty obvious, but we live in a time where even big awards shows are still confusing one Latina for another.
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Cast a variety of Latinx to display how diverse we truly are.
America and Eva's joke about the mix-up was pretty damn funny, but it also unintentionally highlighted that every woman mentioned in their bit is similarly lightly tanned, with wavy hair. So, where are the black, indigenous, and Asian Latinx performers? Where are their stories and spotlights? We wanna see!
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