[reddishlilac]

Carlos Jauregui was an LGBTQ+ rights activist in Argentina during the 80's and 90's.

His activism was based on searching visibility, he wrote articles in newspapers and went to tv programs to talk about LGBTQ+ issues.

He helped to get the first project of civil union for same gender couples, and laws against discrimination towards LGBTQ+ people, he also lead the first lgbtq+ parade in buenos aires, in 1992.

One of the most iconic things he did related to the media was being on the magazine cover of the magazine "Siete Dias" hugging another LGBTQ+ rights activist, Raúl Soria, in 1984. That cover was the first one to show a gay person talking openly about being gay.

(The cover says "the risk of being homosexual in Argentina", and " siete dias" means seven days).

On April 16th of 1984 LGBT activists created the CHA, comunidad homosexual argentina, and jauregui was the first president of said organización, their principal objective was to fight against policial repression.

Carlos Jauregui died in 1996, and August 20th is the day of Activism For Sexual Diversity (or LGBTQ+ rights) in commemoration of his death.

[Photos of Carlos in protests]

Two of his most iconic phrases were "The origin of our fight is the desire for all freedoms" and "In a society that teaches us shame, pride is a political response"

Nowadays, annually in september, there are "jornadas de homenaje a Carlos Jauregui" which are events with LGBT music, films and poetry jams, among other things, to remember and honor him.

Post about another LGBT activist and pre-1976 activism.

[badymaru]

snow angel

[propalitet]

fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation

[revolutionarytea]

My brother and I trying to piece together our dad’s life based on random info he casually brings up once and then never mentions again

[roomba-with-knives-taped-to-it]

When my great grandpa was on his deathbed my grandpa (his son) was with him and says his last words were “I told them they shouldn’t have hanged that woman. Well by damn they’re paying now” and no one in my family knows what the fuck that means

[bbcwhereareyou]

My grandmother was harassing me about the dangers of online dating, and my grandpa was like, “Oh fer crying out loud, leave her alone. My parents met online, she’ll be fine.” Apparenly my great grandparents were both telegraph operators who would chat over the line in between messages and fell in love and my great grandma moved halfway across the country to marry a dude she met over the telegraph.

No one alive in the family had ever heard this story until like 70+ years later when I happened to start seeing a dude from OK Cupid.

[cuntess-carmilla]

Help a disabled Latine lesbian and their family if you can, please.

I am so fucking tired of e-begging but as many of my followers know I'm multiply disabled and I was recently fired from my part-time job for cripple reasons.

My dad recently got a job after 2 years unemployed but he's earning slightly above minimum wage when we're deep in debt and everyone in this household is chronically ill. We have no welfare to rely on, we've burned through every credit card available these past 2 years, and no banks will lend us more money again.

They just hit us with an insane increase in payments that we couldn't afford before and definitely can't now (from 70k Chilean pesos to 160k Chilean pesos).

Here’s my PayPal donation link if you can spare some

Or you can use my PayPal email: [email protected]

I’m afraid that due to being from Chile I can’t use platforms other than PayPal to receive money internationally.

[cuntess-carmilla]

My mom just confessed to me what the total sum of our debt is more or less. It's 70,000 USD. All our credit is burned and we have barely enough income to buy groceries for the first week of the month and that's it. Please help us if you can. I'm crushed.

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

idk I think this new era of Disney systemically poaching non-white cultures to be made into Representation Movies all directed by some white guy named like Laird Bannister III is kinda fucked up and sinister

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

For everyone saying “we need more movies that are LatAm people telling their own stories!” I have great news that every country south of the United States has its own film industry

[redchrominance]

love the implication that c*nada doesn't have its own film industry

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

I was talking about Latin American countries specifically but also you’re right it doesn’t

[hihereami]

As someone in Animation from one of said Latin American countries: yes we do! We DO have industries! But the combination of imperialism, colonisation and multiple social and economic crises has left us in a state where THERE’S NO MONEY. Our industry is used mostly as outsourced labor for giants such as Disney. No, your favourite movies and series aren’t fully made in LA. A lot of the bulk of the work is made by us! We’re the cheap, overworked labor that doesn’t even get mentioned by name in the credits!

‘‘But Ami! What can we do?’‘ Because of many reasons, we ALSO don’t have access to fundraiser platforms, we’re geo blocked by kickstarted, indiegogo and such. Buuuuuuut we ARE still pushing and pulling! We ARE still getting out as much work as we can! Check out this incomplete list of animation studios! Support this latin american fundraising website, idea.me ! Spread awareness of  Global South countries’s state of cheap labor exploited by the first world! Support collectives like Third World Artists Collectives and its website with resources! We’re here!

[littlestpersimmon]

hi friends,  rn I am struggling very hard.. being the only guardian of my sister who is autistic and a minor and the sole caretaker of both my parentns whom are both disabled, I only have enough money to reasonably survive for all four of us and nothing to rely on for emergencies, any extra food, or if anything comes up like if food and cat food runs out earlier than I expect, or for any form of leisure;; So I am opening some commissions like these for 80 usd!! please please help me spread this, it would mean the workld for any help at all. Thank you for helping me!

[littlestpersimmon]

here’s the link to where you can order..!!

LINK to commissions

[spotchka]

reblog to give your mutuals a djungelskog

[trabandovidas]

Shut up about representation, shut up about representation, you wanna see latines? Turn to latam cinema

[dasakuryo]

#listen there’s a conversation to be held about representation in latin american media#which needs to be more diverse and it’s an important aspect that needs to be addressed#BUT for the love of God STOP PRAISING YANQUIS FOR TELLING STORIES THAT SHOULD BE TOLD BY LATIN AMERICANS#as if holding the monopoly on entertainment wasn’t enough UGH#now they wanna pull a new brand of cultural imperialism telling OUR stories#because apparently we’re not capable of doing that ourselves SMH

okay, I’ve changed my mind, I’m not keeping it in the tags csm  

[the-haiku-bot]

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Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[superhelldeactivated]

I think it's kinda weird that Disney turned cultures into this marketable thing that can be trendy for one or two months until the next movie releases. And none of us batted an eye at this.

[superhelldeactivated]

Am I the only one who's actually really scared about the power Disney currently holds over the way we collectively interpret foreign culture?

[superhelldeactivated]

#……ooookay so what you want them to only make movies about white people??

via @cosm0skid

No u dumbfuck I want people to consume shit that aren't Disney but since Disney will keep buying every fucking company in existence here are some suggestions

First of all, don't have people direct movies about cultures they aren't a part of. Four white folks standing up to receive the Oscar for encanto was frankly embarrassing.

Put people whose culture is being represented in all sorts of positions. Animators, character designers, set designers, and so on. Just one opinion from your Colombian diversity hire isn't enough to represent fifty million people.

PRODUCE THESE MOVIES IN THE PLACES THERE ABOUT instead of Greendale California. Latinoamérica can animate. IN FACT LATINOAMÉRICA HAS ANIMATED BEFORE. Movies that got little to no international recognition because they weren't backed up by big name companies such as Disney. So like yeah if they're gonna keep doing this shit, producing locally would be a nice gesture at the very least

Educate children about culture appropriation. Kids don't know dressing up as catrinas is wrong, can't understand why until they're properly taught. Disney has a platform full of kids, the perfect opportunity and motive to educate them, and yet they choose not to so they can sell their cultural appropriation merch.

And actually if they can't do any of these then YES, by all means, I'd love for them to stick to doing movies about white folks and leave the representation to us!

Which reminds me, for the hardcore fans of these movies, I'm giving you one simple very straightforward tip:

If you like the culture that is being represented, CONSUME LOCAL. Support our local production so that we can bring you some more stories you'll hopefully enjoy as much.

[reddishlilac]

A very big part of latín american cultures Is to suffer from imperialism, things like coups, genocidal dictatorships, invations, etc. marked us deeply, and in consecuence, our media and art.

On the opposite side, people from the imperial core, usa, don't know about the things that happened to us. So, how would Disney or big USA companies would be able to represent us?

Wanting Latine Rep™ should be more about supporting productions IN latín america. That media will be hard to watch, our media often touches hard topics, but it's the truest way of representing us.

Our pain is part of our identities, don't support yankees washing our cultures so it's nicer to other yankees.

[reddishlilac]

Honestly i can't imagine how nice it would be to think of a music genre and a traditional food when people asked about my region cultureS.

The diference between people that think of reggaeton and tacos as a representative of latin culture and the people that talk about coups, desaparecidos and crisis is literally a world.

[klassizismus]

Details: Shipwreck off a rocky coast on March, Ludolf Bakhuizen, 1694

[coquettenicolette]

La Naissance de Vénus (“The Birth of Venus”), 1879. Painted by William-Adolpe Bouguereau, French artist (30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905).

[pvnkle]

ok so how’re y’all gonna headcanon Annabelle Cane, avatar of the web, without spider web braids?

•do not repost•

[headspace-hotel]

No offense but the internet gives you the most wrong and fucked up idea of helping people because people get mad if you don't care about disasters happening in 72 countries, meanwhile the people in real life that are doing the most good picked one VERY SPECIFIC thing to care about and care about it REALLY HARD

[reddishlilac]

okay but apply this to usa too, yankees love to scream this but also cry and shake on the floor if you didn't share 689 things of the power outage three houses in Alabama are suffering :((

[krafterwrites]

I’m curious about something, if you write, reblog this post and put in the tags what you write with (MS Word, Google Docs, etc)

[reddishlilac]

When we talk about latin culture in art and representation in the media, we definitely need to include how crucial latin america being a third world region is to the fact that you don't see much latin content in USA, or in other first world countries.

There are a lot of latin books, movies, TV shows, etc, that are FAMOUS, there are classics, there are iconic media that always is used as meme or is referenced in daily basis. All that exists even if it is not popular in first world countries, and ppl from countries like usa acting like it doesn't always ends up in a short sight analysis of our media.

It's okay to want media that represents your particular experiences as people with inmigrant parents/grand parents, or diaspora latines, but it never will be okay to over look our culture because it isn't "popular" in USA. There is no such thing as a lack of latin media, but there is a massive belief in the first world about the global south being less valuable.

[swanlake1998]

audrey malek and cortney taylor key photographed in adriana pierce’s animals and angels by leigh-ann esty