For me Barbie was the first feminist icon in animation. Endless careers, no prince needed, just a girl showing other girls they could be anything. That’s why we were all obsessed
my take on badhai do discourse is that reducing it to copaganda really overlooks rajkumar rao’s performance as a closeted gay man who kind of hates himself…he says that he used to be the one dating closeted older men when he was younger and now *he* is the older man
BJP/RSS is an anti human organization. They are anti poor as well. Everything they do is for the corporates so that in return those useless leeches can give money to the party fund and these fascists can keep on winning using every illegal means possible.
And the problem of the badly behaved domestic tourist abroad is essentially the problem of the same behaviour at home: fear of one's own culture & hegemony being challenged in the smallest way, the need to dominate public space, a lack of curiosity about other people's cultures
this one queer-trans indian microcelebrity on insta with whom I had a parasocial relationship with, broke up with his gf I think, all the reels and posts are gone and I have no one to talk to about this