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handweavers · 2 years

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like that's what always drives me nuts more than anything re: thg movies/online discussions about them. katniss was brown! gale was brown! the poor people of district 12 were brown and indigenous coded while the ppl with a middle class background like peeta and katniss's mom were white and blonde. that context is vital to understanding the story and it's just completely gone in the movies

#gale and katniss hunting together was them trying to reconnect w indigenous practices that had been outlawed #d12 and d11 were racially segregated societiws #rue's district was racially segregated poor black people working for a white upper class and d12 was segregated poor indigenous ppl #katniss as a character cant be separated from her brownness #haymitch as a character changes when u consider he was also indigenous iirc #like this stuff is vital to the context of the story

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