I’m so hyped for Wish 2023 not only because we’re getting our second Black Disney Princess, but we’re also getting our first Latina Disney Princess. And on top of that, she’ll be the first Afrolatina Disney Princess as well! Showing that there are different types of Latinas. It’s so groundbreaking, I’m so excited! 

@allureriah

This is an order!

SANJI PLAYING WITH CHUJI IM CRYING HE'S SO ADORABLEEEE

Imanol “Ulchete” Pagola

Classic literature aesthetic 🕯️🩶

Can we talk about the White-feminization of Asha's design??

Is anyone else picking up on how Black femme-presenting character designs use braids just to imitate straight hair? Asha's braids are so thin to the point that the top of her head is basically flat (but you can't make out her hairlines either to make her hair look "full", like it's just sprouting out of her head that way). There's still the stereotypical idea that long flowing hair is feminine despite the fact it's derived from White beauty standards. It's also why Black masc-presenting characters get thicker and shorter locks. Like why are we applying White notions of femininity and masculinity onto Black hair??

Asha is also light skinned, thin and wears medieval inspired but ultimately cultureless clothing. When every other Disney princess of colour and even the White ones gets to represent their culture (although not all of them were successful), why are the only two Black princesses located in the west? Even if Asha was going to be in a European-esque fantasy space, she still could've represented some specific Black culture.

To divorce her from Blackness in order to make her "feminine" and "palatable" to a general audience is deeply upsetting.

Black Princesses 👸🏾🖤

I'm all for POC solitary but the simple truth is that the other nonblack WOC Disney Princesses are afforded more attention by Disney than Tiana. Aladdin has two sequels and a series. Pocahontas and Mulan both have two movies. The princess and the frog doesn't have a sequel (and it's not like it's a new movie like Moana! It's older thank Frozen, which has two movies and an actual section on disney plus dedicated to all the extra Frozen content. Also, Tangled also has a series despite being older than TPATF)

Tiana simply isn't getting enough attention.

Tiana has been ignored by Disney for ages and it is just so unfair. It’s clear at this point that they made her as a quota to make Black women shut up because they didn’t even put any heart in it. They made her the “Strong Black Woman” and had her overwork herself while giving her a pink-clad and feminine white blonde “princess” best friend. Then they turned her into a frog, made her literally only a human for the beginning and end of the movie. And THEN AND THEN RIGHT AFTER THAT they made a pretty delicate white blonde princess with shimmering golden magical hair in a typical fantasy fake-German setting, like I see what you did there Disney...just a huge slap in the face to Black girls feeling represented by Tiana that only served to remind us that Black women will never be worthy of the fairytale life to Disney’s eyes...they couldn’t even give us a genuine African/African-American fairytale...they forced Tiana’s story to be “realist”, set in the 1920s during segregation where racism was rife and she had to sit in the back of the bus, showing how Black girls can never be fairytale princesses, we can only struggle and suffer oppression. 

And then right after that made a genuine light-hearted and magical fairytale with a pretty girly white princess Rapunzel. And then they made Brave. And then they made Frozen. Even the other princesses of color got this, Pocahontas even got a whimsical romance and that is arguably even worse as they made her adultified/sexualized fall in love with a colonizing piece of shit, but back to Tiana...they never truly cared about her or her story or the Black girls with princess dreams that they claimed to represent...I mean for goodness sake her name was originally going to be “Maddy” and she was conceptualized as a chamber maid to a white Southern Belle(who eventually became her best friend in the final product...🫤). And I like Tiana, as well as Charlotte, as well as the movie on a whole, but umm... 

It shows that Disney does not care. Or at least didn’t care when they made it. The worst part is that they DID do Black girls right with Cinderella(1997), my all-time favorite movie, but it’s relatively obscure outside of the Black community. Cinderella was excellent. What’s stopping them from doing it again? Hopefully they’ll do right by us with the new The Little Mermaid movie, but I have my doubts already with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Aquafina being a part of it...and according to a friend of mine they didn’t even give Ariel a Black family and her prince also isn’t Black(I don’t think Disney has ever had a Black prince despite having three Black princesses 😭 ik we’re talking about misogynoir here but that’s still...well...not great...). But I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. 

Say in the tags if any of these deaths gave you nightmares as a kid

My favorite Black Cartoon characters:

1. Miles Morales

2. Frozone

3. Officer Earl

4. Tiana

5. Moana

6. Belle Bottom

7. Aisha

Snow White: Because it's first--Cinderella: Iconic. Historical.--Mary Poppins: Julie Andrews!! International: England--Freaky Friday: Mother/Daughter relationships--Amy: Inspirational, International: United States--Mulan: Be true to yourself, International; China--Princess Diaries: Julie Andrews & Anne Hathaway! 'International: Genovia'--Brave: International; Scottish--Queen of Katwe: True/Inspirational, International; Uganda--Black Widow: Sisterhood, International; Russia+--Raya and the Last Dragon: Dragons! and Ladies (read: lesbians).--Others?!?!?

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