aeide-thea:iolfs:A Wizard of Earthsea. Ged Sparrowhawk.the person who linked me to this did not, i t
aeide-thea:iolfs:A Wizard of Earthsea. Ged Sparrowhawk.the person who linked me to this did not, i think, want to make public waves about it (although they can get credit for pointing out the issue if they want it!), but/so i’m going to—ged is described in a wizard of earthsea as having ‘red-brown’ skin, and while i get that it’s in passing and the artist might legitimately have missed it, this portrayal is undeniably whitewashing the character (see this post from black girl gaming, among many others, on why whitewashing in fanart is an issue). le guin herself strongly objected to depictions of ged that did this, calling them a ‘betrayal of the book, and of the potential reader,’ which i think is precisely right; i think we need to stop passing around this particular piece, and any others like it as though it isn’t doing violence to the world it depicts, and to the readers who badly need the vision of heroism ged represents. which, to be clear, is not only readers of color, but all those who need their vision expanded: a group to which, if you reblogged this art without seeing any issue with it, you almost certainly belong. -- source link
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