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as a south asian queer woman, sometimes mainstream queer culture is really white (/nm— I’m not mad!! i’m just reflecting.)

when mean girls (2024) came out and the queer community was like “Reneé Rapp was the only good part of the movie”… and its like yes that’s great that a queer woman is playing Regina and it’s amazing Rapp champions the view of Regina as a lesbian.

but everyone so casually dismissed Avantika’s performance as Karen (character who’s also queer in this version— Avantika said Karen Shetty is a “pansexual queen”). it was crazy how blind it seemed people were to how groundbreaking her casting was by reversing south Asian stereotypes (1. she’s dumb instead of smart 2. she sings “sexy” when south Asian women are considered in American society to be unattractive)— like it was just a moment where i was kinda sitting there dumbfounded, not at all mad or anything— just reminded that “oh right. they’re white. I’m not. i come from a different perspective and am going to go crazy over the queer woc not the queer white woman.”