When you watch MSNBC, CNN, and Fox, who are the latina hosts you most enjoy getting your information from? When was the last time one of these networks had an immigrant from Latin American on screen? And what about radio? How often is an immigrant reporter the voice you hear?
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What immigrant latina poet do you turn to often? Who is your favorite latinx writer? Don’t say Junot Díaz. What about an award-winning latina newspaper editor? Can you name all the immigrant latinx columnists at The Nation, The Atlantic and The New Yorker combined? Are there any?
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It’s easier for the general public to believe that latinxs immigrants are animals when we’re rarely represented as anything else. We’re never experts. We’re hardly human. What do you do with animals? You put them in cages. And then some.
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This isn’t a full explanation of the underlying reasons for how we got here, of course. It’s just been on my mind every time I turn on my tv or read a new article or column. End rant.
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And when people make these posts how many times did they forget to mention gay people? Is it a lot? It's a lot.
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Umm. I’m bisexual. It’s possible to be latinx and queer at the same time. The fact you don’t already know this goes to my original point.
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I didn't f****** ask.
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You literally asked me: “And when people make these posts how many times did they forget to mention gay people? Is it a lot?” And I answered. Now see your way out of my mentions.
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I forgot the greatest of them all,
@OneDayAtATime on@netflix. Rita Moreno is a Cuban immigrant and Snyder is a Canadian immigrant. Can’t give away any spoilers, but it GOES THERE. Seeing a Cuban-American family cope in Trump’s America is much fresher than, say, “The Conners.” -
Hahha I loved when Snyder came out as an illegal.
As a Canadian-American, I have known so many illegal immigrants from both the US in Canada and from Canada in the US. No one ever demands their citizenship papers though.
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I commute in London on the tube with its ad posters on walls, trains, sidewalks. I play a mental game counting the non-white people in ads that show people. Notable exceptions exist, but on the whole ads fail the Immigrant equiv of the Bechdel test. The faces I see look like me.
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The immigrant equivalent of Bechdel test should have its own name !! Any suggestions?
@AlisonBechdel
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the more things happen the more serious i get about my "write a 30 min comedy pilot set in a small immigration law office" passion project, I'm glad someone understands
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I can count them on one hand. Here’s to amplifying John Leguizamo, Cristela, Josefina Lopez,
@CASA0101 theatre, and other Latin artists.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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they want to keep it straight, white, christian bc that's what they think are "American values." they are incapable of accepting other ways of life and living together. instead they play victim to "PC" whenever someone else infringes upon their privilege. we need to change it.
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De lo que platicábamos! La influencia de los medios para sensibilizar temas complejos
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Documenting the Undocumented within Latin Americahttp://bit.ly/1IilM4y
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If you look at the track record of LPB (Latino Public Broadcasting), the bulk of the ten to twelve docs they have funded every year (for years and years) have been about immigration, and much of that focused on MX/US migration, with the occasional Dominican baseball player doc.
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