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It's a shame an announcement like this even has to be put out honestly. 🙄
Poor Fran. 😔
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About Online Threats Abuse & Misogynoir Towards Black Women in the Entertainment Industry...
Susan Wokoma appeared on the Woman's Hour on BBC Radio recently and she bravely spoke out on the letter of support she and Somalia Seton put together to support Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, as well as speaking candidly on the effects the online abuse that Black women face have...
I IMPLORE people in these fandoms, especially where harassment of Black women happens to listen to this podcast to understand what it does.
Listen below:
There is a very white tendency to either make the focus their own sympathetic reaction to a Black woman entertainer being bullied/harassed like this (crying or feeling bad for it happening to them) or minimize what's happening. "It's only one or two" or "They'll probably never see it."
And I get the tendency to want to either distance or somehow equalize it to the harassment white women face, as well...but there is a particular nastiness that comes with misogynoir that gets at literally wanting to dehumanize and punish a Black woman for existing.
The intention is to destroy them completely, rather than put in place.
Anyway, I encourage anyone who cares about Black women in fandom to give the segment interviewing Susan Wokoma, a listen.
#francesca amewudah rivers#susan wokoma#misogynoir#fandom looks like fandom#zawe ashton#moses ingram#leah jeffries#amandla stenberg#chloe bailey#taylor russell#fka twigs#megan markle#fandom racism#fandom misogynoir#racism#black women#halle bailey#freema agyeman#danai gurira#leslie jones
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Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, Tom Holland's rumoured Juliet Capulet for Jamie Lloyd's West-End revival of Romeo and Juliet
#she's cute!#and i love that she or whichever lesser known actress nabs this role#will get to be thrust into the spotlight because of this#francesca amewudah rivers#tom holland
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Jamie Lloyd confirmed that right after his Olivier win as BEST DIRECTOR for 'Sunset Blvd.', he returned to rehearsals for 'Romeo & Juliet'.
The director took the opportunity to talk about the controversial racial attacks suffered by Francesca Amewudah-Rivers and the cast's position in the face of it —
“Everyone is focusing on the work. That’s how you win in the face of the people who hate. You focus on the work and I can’t wait for the world to see this exceptional cast and the amazing performance that Francesca is creating. The mood in the room is creative and compelling.”
This explains the company's decision to make a powerful general statement and leave the matter aside, so as not to give ammunition to the incels and racists who invaded social media. We know very well what the homophobic reaction was like with Tom Holland in The Crowded Room.
#tom holland#romeo and juliet#romeo#west end#play#jamie lloyd#olivier#sunset boulevard#sunset blvd#broadway#francesca amewudah rivers#juliet#it girl#it boy#london#shakespeare#racial equality#queer
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racist losers absolutely grasping at straws to try and come for a successful, beautiful black queen
#like what the actual fuck#ITS A PLAY!!! LITERALLY THE DEFINITION OF ANYONE CAN PLAY ANY CHARACTER#i hope tom or jamie speak up…#tom holland#francesca amewudah rivers#romeo & juliet#romeo and juliet#baz luhrmann
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“nooooo they can’t cast a black woman as juliet in romeo and juliet it’s not historically accurate nooo”
it’s a shakespeare play
it’s
it’s a shakespeare play
you know who played female characters during shakespeare’s time
men
it was men
so if we’re trying to make it “historically accurate”
juliet would be
a man
#god i hate people#like#at least know a LITTLE BIT about what you’re being racist about#just a little#francesca amewudah rivers#romeo and juliet
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"black girls deserve fairytale love" - soe noire
planet frizz magazine (2024)
muse: francesca amewudah-rivers
she's my juliet fr, she will do AMAZING
#francesca amewudah rivers#romeo and juliet#protect black women#fairytale#shakespeare#black girl magic#black is beautiful#black tumblr#melanin#princess#musicals#tom holland
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people say they want to see more black women in film & TV, but the moment she's a unambiguous black woman (Francesca Amewudah-Rivers & Halle Bailey), people are ready to attack her.
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The hate and just absolute racism Francesca Amewudah-Rivers is facing all because she got casted to play Juliet in Romeo and Juliet is absolutely unacceptable. “Well Juliet was white” WHO CARES?! One of y’all’s fav adaptions has a Black Mercutio but I guess it’s only ok anide he wasn’t the main character. Theater is meant to transcend barriers. It is meant for everyone, but y’all insist on keeping those barriers and it isn’t right. It’s unfair to very talented people and some of y’all really deserve to be slapped.
#romeo and juliet#shakespeare#racism in theater#francesca amewudah rivers#and then y’all get mad when we create our own spaces#make up your minds#unique writes
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So it begins
but also, we need new photos cuz I refuse to believe the official poster is gonna be a recycled photo from an old photoshoot. And his hair don't look like this anymore so that's lowkey false advertising 💀
#credit to tomhollandupdates on Instagram#tom holland#romeo and juliet#francesca amewudah rivers#jamie lloyd#r&j era
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Viola Davis posted about Francesca. I hope she is feeling supported and love coming from across the globe
Awww... that was so sweet of Viola. 🥰❤️
LOVE her msg to Francesca.
Being a darker-hued Black woman, I'm sure Viola knows firsthand how the ET and arts world can be.
I'm glad to see so many giving Fran their support. 🥰 I'm sure it means a lot to her.
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It's official! ❤️❤️
Thanks @nancydrewwouldnever for the info
#the Jamie Lloyd company#west end theatre#romeo & Juliet#play casting#tom holland#francesca amewudah rivers#deadline
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*sigh* Featurism...
So, I woke up to this shit on the Twit app and I've only hit on this issue before, but today I'm digging in.
Colorism is something that is not addressed often enough, but intersected within that and even more rarely spoken about, is the issue of featurism.
The young actress above just got cast as Juliet in the latest big staged prestige production of Romeo and Juliet, opposite Tom Holland. And as usual the blue-checks, everybody else including "black", and even Black regulars are all-in on the cruelty.
...But I want to breakdown a nuance that is too often skipped over when this happens. The two people named with her, give away the featurism game, here; a particularly nasty form of often internalized racism.
I guarantee if the young actress looked like this?
She'd definitely still get racist attacks, but the particularly nasty shit I'm seeing attacking her looks wouldn't come. In fact, I could see some people thinking they are defending her with "but she's pretty!" or more specific... "obviously she's mixed" comments.
-Something pretty much every Black woman with features that don't align with a narrow perception of blackness hear often (and we'll get to why I specified women in a minute).
And don't get it twisted...
These aren't exclusively nor standard white features either (see: the many ethnic features w/in white ethnic groups that also get hit to a lesser and non-racialized degree such as large "hook" and/or Romanesque noses for example, which is definitely about anti-semitism, anti-Romani sentiment, and other disparaged/discriminated against ethnic minorities in Europe) and yes, blue eyes are naturally occurring within non-mixed and dark-skinned Black people due to a mutation called Waardenburg syndrome.
But there is a REASON why fetishizing even certain ethnic features within the African continental diaspora has been a thing for a long time...i.e. "the dopest Ethiopian" from the Tribe Called Quest lyric is pictured as this:
and this:
and not this:
...despite them all being Ethiopians of various tribal ethnicities.
A wide-nose, a tighter curl, coil, or zig-zag pattern of hair, fuller lips and often, but not always (because I've given examples above where features "mitigate" skin color) darker skin.
Zendaya is grouped with Tracey and Francesca Amewudah-Rivers, despite being both lighter in skin color and having a Black parent and a white parent because her nose isn't what has become the standard surgical look...that too many celebs have.
This includes the ones who got so-called "ethnic" work or just a slight 'refinement'. No, her nose is born w/it, made for that good African air, as I call it. Nostrils prominent, nose bridge wide:
I went make-up free as well, because even make-up practices these days, go for that narrowing highlight technique i.e. just below it's subtle.
Sza is a an example of it taken to extremes, even with the Hollywood standard "ethnic" refinement she did get.
The thing is... I don't blame or attack her for that. Because you see above that is just a taste of what happens.
Lil' Kim was relentlessly bullied by the men in her life for her ethnic features for her whole life...and that is why she is off-limits to this day for me when it comes to all the work she's had done.
...And this is where I explain why I specified men being mostly exempt. It's because "Blackness" including all the physical features associated with it, is by default masculinized.
...Which is why Idris Elba is considered one of the most handsome men in the world, w/o the caveats that even Lupita Nyong'o often gets.
Nobody calls Samuel L. Jackson ugly. He is even idolized and fetishized by a specifically white male gaze for how culturally "Black" he is perceived to be for all the wrong reasons, his signature "motherfucka" for example (and I could go off on a whole other tangent here, but digressing).
All this to say... Featurism sucks. It's not talked about enough.
Blackness in all variations is Beautiful.
Tracy Chapman looking as young she does?? Hell, mark it down to both her dark skin (a natural UV protector) and not messing with her given features (and being a lesbian, men will age you. lol -I got jokes-):
P.S. THANK GOODNESS for Tems and her rising prominence as a beauty as well:
P.P.S. Even Jay-Z the billionaire rapper has had the comments over the years about his lips and nose, hence that lyric in Beyonce's Formation.
#featurism#I only just scratched the surface#but man this shit needed to be scratched#colorism#racism#meta#tom holland#romeo and juliet#tracy chapman#lil kim#tems#jay z#sza#zendaya#francesca amewudah-rivers#francesca amewudah rivers
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my two cents
the thing that white people don't seem to understand is that white characters often exist without their whiteness being essential to the story while it is a rarity if characters of color ever get that luxury in the stories that they're in. and even then, in the context of real life, it makes no sense to those kinds of characters white because of how little representation that exists for people of color who don't have their own intense 'struggle story'.
for all the disney princesses that they're saying, "so i guess _____ should be white then," they have to realize that their stories don't exist without their racial and ethnic backgrounds. jasmine is an arab girl whose story takes place in the middle east; take away her color, and you have a different story entirely--you are no longer telling the story of 'aladdin'. mulan is a chinese woman in ancient china fighting in the chinese army against the huns. if she was any other ethnicity other than chinese, it would not be the same 'mulan'. pocahantas is a native american girl whose home and safety was being threatened by the *white* colonizers. IF SHE HAD BEEN WHITE, THE STORY WOULD NOT HAVE MADE SENSE!!!
and tiana, who i don't know why she's even being brought up in this conversation (i don't know why any of them were being brought up anyway, but her especially), is a black woman in the jim crow south in the 1920s, whose story was full of jazz music and voodoo, and who had to work all day, every day to barely be able to afford a down payment on the building for her restaurant. at the risk of sounding redundant, IF SHE HAD BEEN WHITE, she would have been lottie. and that's what people don't seem to understand: 'the princess and the frog' already showed us what it would be like if tiana was white. she would have been the princess of nola with a daddy so rich, all she would have had to do was ask for money and he would have bought the building for her and then some. there would have been no need to bargain with naveen, no adventure through the bayou, no character development for tiana. simply put, the movie. would not. exist.
at this point, i've forgotten how i wanted to say what i wanted to say, so i'll say this: casting a person of color in a 'typically white' role does no detriment to your self-worth. it has no impact on your childhood. it does not affect you in any way. but for people of color, who didn't have too much of this representation growing up, opportunties like this are everything for us (i didn't even talk about francesca amewudah-rivers and the west-end romeo and juliet, but the same sentiments still apply, especially because she's also providing nigerian representation in a space that i love but don't feel too represented in). but, if you don't like the idea, don't watch the product.
a lot of you complaining are grown adults who have much bigger issues to worry about, so please quit being immature and shut up about it!! and stop being bullies to actors that are doing nothing but their jobs.
thank you for your time.
#i don't know how coherent this is. i just needed a place to get thoughts out#this is a problem that shouldn't be#and i am sick and tired of the discourse#let people of color live and feel properly represented in the media that we're also consuming#may god do onto every racist all that they have done to these actresses that are just LIVING THEIR LIVES#tangled live action#avantika#francesca amewudah rivers#racism
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The Outcry for Better Dark-skin Representation is Performative
Unplanned video, but I couldn’t focus on anything else because I had so many feelings about this
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