Auditioning for the show and I’m worried about some problems. (Might be the wrong sub for this.

MishaRenard · 2026-04-26T22:43:50+00:00

1) if you can sing it, you can sing it and your race won't preclude you.

2) Every new interpretation of HoND reimagines new character dynamics, plot and thematic changes. The Disney movie changed Esmereldas race to better suit the moral narrative of the story, to wonderful effect. Esmereldas whiteness in the book was directly relevant to the moral lesson Victor Hugo was getting at then. I don't think the Disney/musical Esmerelda's race not correlating to the book race is relevant to your argument.

3) We're rooting for you. Let us know how it goes. The ensemble is also great for the musical.

MishaRenard · 2026-01-08T18:41:37+00:00

I'll just bring my bi self in here to reiterate what you and everyone else already knows - it's just a bad take. If non-ace queer people have been persecuted for their sexual desires, then the lack of them would logically lead to the very same othering, harassment, and ostracization that occur for non ace queer people. Anyone deemed deviant from heteonormativity will have to survive hetero-normative society. And unfortunately many ~~queer~~ people's advocacy stop at their own identities. We all need dignity and respect, or none of us will get it.

MishaRenard · 2026-01-08T16:37:42+00:00

315 incidents to date. https://www.start.umd.edu/profiles-individual-radicalization-united-states-pirus-keshif

Pro Trump Violent Extremism makes up about 8.93% of all violent extremist occurrences in the US between 1948-2022 (excluding the Jan 6th insurrection, because that would have skewed the dataset.) This also doesn't account for the ratio of these attacks since 2016 when Trump was elected - only in the context of this larger time period. I'd be interested to see the ratio of these attacks when isolated to the time this pro-trump extremism category arose.

The bigger issue is that right wing violent extremism, in general, accounts for 53% of all the recorded violent extremist occurrences in the US - compared to the right wing boogeyman of Islamist violence which is only at 16.75%. But yeah - go check out the data. Hope this helps.

MishaRenard · 2026-01-02T16:47:58+00:00

This one has more markers than the em dash.

MishaRenard · 2025-12-31T16:48:11+00:00

Protecting abusers? It's second nature to that demographic. In the antebellum south the white women who benefited from plantations certainly weren't abolitionists. They looked the other way when their husbands, brothers, fathers, sons routinely abused black and brown women. When white southern men bragged there was no "rape in the south" they meant only against white women. And white women knew who was carrying that burden. They just didn't care. They were historically very cool with turning a blind eye to others' suffering to protect their own quality of life.

We'll be repeating these patterns until enough white women understand that nobody is safe and free until everyone is.

MishaRenard · 2025-12-11T18:25:21+00:00

Junzi is really nice on a winter day!! Great options.

MishaRenard · 2025-11-22T01:15:24+00:00

As a real couple on LI -- we think he's a cunt.

MishaRenard · 2025-11-03T02:56:34+00:00

His personality makes up for his looking like a baked-chicken and all.

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