This is a Disney Princess appreciation blog that isn't afraid to analyze or break down disney.
I advocate the need for more Princesses of Color (and other characters in general) in Disney films actively if not aggressively.
If you can't handle talking about race, this might not be the blog for you.
This is a body, queer+ and trans* positive blog.
the way it should be, famous songs from animated movies performed in the language of the place the stories are set in or the character’s mother tongue {listen}
i. hellfire (the hunchback of notre dame) - french; ii. once upon a december (anastasia) - russian; iii. a whole new world (aladdin) - arabic; iv. bare necessities (the jungle book) - hindi; v. i see the light (tangled) - german; vi. can you feel the love tonight? (the lion king) - zulu; vii. i’ve got no strings (pinocchio) - italian; viii. i won’t say i’m in love (hercules) - greek; ix. it’s tough to be a god (the road to el dorado) - spanish; x. under the sea (the little mermaid) - danish; xi. i’ll make a man out of you (mulan) - mandarin; xii. when you believe (the prince of egypt) - hebrew
■ I saw your reblog about the the doll color test performed on a white girl and I was wondering how you would talk about race/racism to a child? I agree it is needed, I just don't know how you would go about it...
Kids already notice race! It’s not like a child would be shocked to notice she/he has lighter or darker skin than their other friends. It really wouldn’t be such an alien subject to approach to them. In fact, most kids are eager to talk about race and usually do have questions about it (since kids are naturally curious).
I don’t have any resources on the top of my head (or blog!) but does someone want to throw some links or suggestions to Anon?
■ So "Mickey and the Magical Map" premiered for press tonight at Dland, and it looks like the ladies featured in the princess medley segment are Mulan, Pocahontas, and Rapunzel, and the finale of the whole show is a Tiana riverboat segment :).
All these blogs are run by PoC. And where made for PoC or specifically for ppl in their own respective communities but they are also good for other PoC to follow. Some of these are really informative. Please read all the blogs “About” and “FAQs”, go through the tags, etc. before sending messages. If I missed any blogs…then I’ll make another list…
The classic doll color test performed with a white child, complete with the parent’s excuses reactions
The little girl even says she picked the white figures as the good child because it “looks like me” and the dark girl as bad because “she’s dark”. When Soledad O’Brien asks the girl’s mother about it, we’re met with quite a few colorblind based excuses and “well, we just don’t talk about race”.
“We don’t talk about race!!”
And your kid is saying racist shit regardless.
That should fucking tell you something, lady.
But of course, it won’t. I bet you cash money she won’t change a thing, continuing to use that color blind bullshit.
This is why the whole idea of not discussing race with white children is bullshit. No, it won’t “taint” them. When you don’t talk about it, they still form opinions — racist ones — because they don’t know any better, so to speak. Then one day they grow up into adults that are, guess what, still racist. As Black folks, we pretty much all had “the talk” as kids/young people; our existence in this society dictates that we do, because racism is a part of our lives at an incredibly young age. Colorblind ideology has been proven to be toxic as blatant racism. And little white kids can be just as racist as their parents.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOP..!!
we dont talk about race with kids but a small child ran up to my professor’s wife and said she had a terrorist baby.
we dont talk about race with kids but white children were encouraged to go to lynchings to see white supremacy. because (trigger warning: graphic details) jesse washington, whose charred body is floating around on tumblr posts, had his teeth yanked out by white children so they could sell them as lynching souvenirs.
we dont talk about race with kids but kids clearly PICK UP ON RACE. many POC parents dont explicitly discuss race but clearly, white ppl, kids pick up on it!!
