Representation fucking matters.
Before watching the new Black Panther movie I really didn’t feel the need for it. Ofc I got why people wanted to be seen in big screens and different platforms but never really felt identified with the feeling people described. (I’m a member of the lgbt community as well but since I grew up on a very open household with a loving family that opened that part of the culture to me it was never a big thing).
Today that changed when I saw brown people on screen. I saw people who look like me and my friends and the ones I see on the streets everyday. I’m a Mexican woman, born and raised in Mexico and getting to see such a beautiful representation of my culture and people warmed my heart and made me feel exactly what minorities who were overshadowed by western media describe.
They even included Mayan legends on it, which I’ve always found absolutely beautiful. I live near some ruins (Teotihuacán, look it up) and it’s quite beautiful to see elements I saw on field trips and history classes represented on a movie. And not just any movie, a marvel movie. I grew up with them and seeing my culture developing in the same universe was just mesmerizing.
If you read this all the way, thank you. Means the world <3
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Tenoch Huerta on the set of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Dir. Ryan Coogler
Namor (played by Tenoch Huerta)
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It's such a fate how this is the first film that made me know Tenoch Huerta because I was "too lazy" to watch other projects he's in. Like I saw Narcos Mexico on Netflix homepage, added it to my list and then "nah, later" or how I watched every movie in The Purge franchise EXCEPT The Forever Purge.
And my god he made such a strong impression from playing Namor. It's impossible not to fall in love with him.
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