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The Hunger Games is, to this day, my favourite book series. They hold a very special place in my heart. Growing up as an Indigenous girl, I really related and felt seen in Katniss specifically reading them as they came out. (And while I am no longer a teen, I still see myself in her retrospectively.)

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the mockingjay

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Anyway fuck the United States and happy birthday Haymitch Abernathy ❤️

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I have always and will always love Gale as a character 🖤

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You know, I actually really appreciate that Collins chose to describe Katniss as having brown skin but her sister Prim as whitepassing. It's nice to see a depiction of a mixed family actually, realistically differing in appearance for once. Genetics can be weird y'all. Mixed kids can range from one parent to another and are definitely not always (in fact rarely) a perfect middle blend of both.

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so after, when he whispers, “you love me. real or not real?” i tell him, “real.”

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— suzanne collins, sunrise on the reaping

This piece, paired with D11 having a very large Black population, is such vivid storytelling of how the Capitol just restored slavery outright huh.

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Just saw this picture and wow, now I get what people were saying about Jennifer Lawrence being in brownface with bronzer a bit https://thanley.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/jenniferlawrencekatniss.jpg

Yeah I do agree a lot of the promos like that one qualified as brownface / digital brownface (digital because it's clearly edited not just bronzer)

#ask

miseria-fortes-viros

listen, okay, i get what you’re saying but the hunger games are REALLY important for the country’s economy. they generate more revenue in just a few weeks than all of the districts do in like, six entire months. AND they’re an integral part of our culture. not just the capitol! the districts rely on the games too. we can’t just ABOLISH them. that’s CRAZY. but of course i support trans rights! they should have the right to put their names in and showcase their courage and bravery as their PREFERRED gender. but it’s funny you brought that up because i’m actually starting a petition to introduce a nonbinary category as well! tributes shouldn’t be required to align with arbitrary sex characteristics in order to compete. i mean, it’s 2316! i know the districts aren’t as advanced as we are here in the capitol, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be encouraging gender diversity. i’ll take the signatures to the city offices once i have enough. honestly, i have high hopes! the local lgbt community is sure to support it. plus, i mean, why would anyone be against it, really? just think! we could have THREE tributes from each district instead of just two. imagine the economical impact of twelve extra tributes every year! wouldn’t that be something! what do you think? will you sign?

"How Not to Drown" by CHVRCHES is SO Katniss coded

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Maybe it's because it's your actual region. Maybe it's because of shared cultural implications. Maybe you just have a lot of ideas about expanding the lore. Whatever the reason, I'm curious to know what District folks feel most drawn to, and why.

Which Panem District do you feel most connected to?

District 1

District 2

District 3

District 4

District 5

District 6

District 7

District 8

District 9

District 10

District 11

District 12

Voting ended onApr 15

I'll say that despite living on the Atlantic Coast and District 4 being Pacific, because my people in real life are so culturally close to the water, I feel most connected to them!

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The Casting for Panache Barker in the Sunrise on the Reaping film adaptation is Anti-Black and Tone-Deaf

In the book Sunrise on the Reaping, Panache Barker is a minor antagonist from District 1. Based on his spots in the new trailer, it looks like the film adaptation is going to keep the role pretty accurate. Which makes the fact that they cast Jhaleil Swaby, a young Black man to play the character, pretty damn problematic. I'm not saying Swaby won't be able to do a good job with the role - but I do think that this is a case where racebending a character is really out of touch with the character's role in the story, to the point of creating hugely racist connotations.

Panache in the book is hyper-violent, hotheaded, and unintelligent. He is first introduced as breaking the train window when he steps out of it. Later in the showers, he literally swings his dick around in peoples faces. During training sessions, he talks over the female instructors and bullies the other tributes. At his interview, the Capitol just laughs at him for being dumb.

There is not much sympathetic about Panache, because he chooses violence every time. He chooses to hype up the system while refusing to believe in the fact that he himself is suffering from that same system. He refuses to believe in the fact that he has more in common with the other tributes than he does with the Capitol people he eagers to impress.

All this is to say, Panache's character represents toxic masculinity. And while I'm definitely not going to claim that Black boys and men cannot fall into that hole like men of any other ethnic background, I will say that there is nothing about Panache that reads as Black in the book. If he was Black, I would think that his toxic masculinity would have been displayed a little differently; it would have included the context of his race within the threads of that type of violence. Instead, I personally read him as a big white guy abusing underfed brown kids, in attempt to appease the overlording Capitol.

But instead of critiquing toxic masculinity as the book does, the film instead chose to make the hyper-violent, hotheaded, and unintelligent antagonist a Black boy. This instead now presents horrible, dangerous, racist stereotypes for Black boys and men as if they are true.

The Hunger Games films have a strong history of whitewashing, but this is the opposite of the answer. If the only roles you're willing to cast visible minorities in are villains and dead characters, that's adding to the problem.