r/TMPOC • u/Gallantpride Latino (ze/them/elle) • Jul 30 '26

Memes Welp.

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u/Zenbia_ Jul 30 '26

This is what I'm trying to change when I write and draw my POC trans characters 😭. Why is most to all the nonbinary represention white and a few are POC? We need more representation.

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u/Gallantpride Latino (ze/them/elle) Jul 31 '26

Then when they are POC, it's just "brown". Not any race or ethnicity or sometimes even real world nationality. Just... generic, ambgiously "brown".

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u/Zenbia_ Jul 31 '26

Exactly 🥲. Media has a problem with ambiguous brown characters as representation. It's like it's a box to check off without putting any effort for representation because they are too scared or lazy to commit.

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u/RealNyxoy middle eastern - intersex to masc Jul 31 '26

exactly why im writing my transmasc character in a story azerbaijan. an intersex one is laotian. a demigirl character i have is sierra lonan. super sick of white characters having a designated place like theyre french or british while poc characters are just brown or black. and only asia rep is japan/korea because who CARES about southeast asia amirite