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Associate Artistic Director @KakilangArts All views my own. Actor/Writer/Filmmaker/Musician. Trustee @NYTofGB
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OKAY HERE WE GO!!!
@KakilangArts
Present - The Dao of Unrepresentative British Chinese Experience
@sohotheatre
Words by Daniel York Loh
Music by An-Ting 安婷
@ChangAnTing
Directed by
@AKornitzer
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I was at the cenotaph as part of the ceremony. They were chanting and singing during the silence. While the prayer was being read we could hear ‘oh Tommy Tommy’.
The Far Right were NOT there to ‘honour the fallen’
BREAKING: Fights have broken out in London between police and a far right crowd trying to reach the Cenotaph on Armistice Day.
They were reportedly bearing England flags and shouting: "England till I die"
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This is so beautiful. I’m literally in tears. Tory hypocrites need to sort their shit out
#YouClapForMeNow
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We are in deep trouble and we really need to realise that
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This is awful. Rest In Peace Yee-King Ho ‘Fion’
‘Intelligent, dedicated' woman, 27, takes her own life after struggling to afford £900-a-month rent and having to choose which meal to eat - MyLondon
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they said ‘white working class people’ did not have ‘white privilege’ when they clearly do cuz they can riot & chuck bricks at places of worship & set fire to things & smash stuff up & attack people of colour in the streets but it’s all cuz of their ‘legitimate concerns’
🙄
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I've resigned as
@EquityREC
Chair over this.
@Equity
and La*rence F*x can issue as many joint statements and apologies as they like. It's nothing to do with me and I apologise for nothing
#NotInMyName
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#AllLivesMatter
until they’re non-white people on flimsy boats escaping war and deprivation. Then you’ll fantasise about the navy shooting them in the sea
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Am I the only bothered by this from Jeremy Hunt on why immigration needs restricting -
‘My children are half Chinese and I do not want them to grow up in a country where people look at immigrants and say it’s difficult for me to access NHS services because of people like you’
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And I wonder how many of these racists banging about Juliet being White even know that in the original production she’d have been played by an adolescent boy
The racist abuse aimed at Francesca Amewudah-Rivers for her casting in
@JamieLloydCo
's Romeo and Juliet is abhorrent, but is the experience many artists of colour have after landing a notable role. It has to stop, no-one should have to face such vitriol for doing their job.
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Dear Theresa. Thank you for submitting your self - tape. We very much enjoyed watching it and appreciate the effort you've put in. However, on this occasion we've decided to go a different way for the role of 'Capable Politician' . We wish all the best for the future.
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Since when did theatres start doing that ‘you can’t book a single seat if there’s a pair next to each other’ thing???
Just sell the tickets!!!
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White Royals been doing this for ever. No one said shit
Meghan Markle's been accused of being a hypocrite for flying by private jet to New York for a couple of days for her baby shower. The Duchess of Sussex's flight had a hefty carbon footprint, when she and Harry campaign for environmental issues. Thoughts?
#jeremyvine
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Last night we responded to a Twitter call to go and counter-protest a pro-Beijing protest outside the Denise Ho
@hoccgoomusic
concert in London. I’m not altogether sure why there was a “pro-Beijing protest” outside the Denise Ho concert...
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This is the thing about ‘representation’. Suella Braverman is able to use the type of language that would be absolutely off-limits to any White Male Tory. She can tip the whole discourse violently Rightwards because of her ethnicity
And this is going on EVERYWHERE atm
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This is just one disgusting example of the way British police treat black people
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Tweeted without comment
‘Laurence Fox will have to pay more than £36,000 in legal fees to three people he referred to as 'paedophiles' on Twitter after losing his bid for a jury to hear their High Court libel battle…’
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Have you, mate? Really? You’ve actually seen them arrive and followed them all the way there?
Brexit voting man in white, "I've seen people entering this country and going straight down to the benefits office."
#BBCQT
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R.I.P. Halyna Hutchins. The press trying to make this all about a movie star and a ‘crew member’ when this brilliant talented woman (director of photography) is gone tragically and way way too soon
#HalynaHutchins
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Who plays your parents in a biopic?
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The Ivy should just stay out of Asia if this is the kind of racist dreck they use to market it
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OMG I had no idea who else they'd asked. I am literally honoured!
We're thrilled to announce the five new trustees who have joined our Board of Trustees after being nominated by our Youth Trustees!
They are Munroe Bergdorf, Sylvia Darkwa-Ohemeng, Jessica Hung Han Yun, Tobi Kyeremateng and Daniel York Loh
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‘… if you’re a young woman on a set, which is largely peopled by men, the crew will be 90% men and the women won’t be on the set with you, because generally speaking we do not have parity on any level on film sets, it’s all men…’
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There’s a moment in this where the camera cuts to Yaxley’s desperately humiliated pinched face as Akala runs rings of intricate fact around him making look like the angry little schoolboy he is
Shame it’s only a fleeting moment
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#COVIDIOTS
Allison Pearson
Tim Martin
Mike Ashley
Peter Hitchens
Brendan O'Neill
Rod Liddle
Boris Johnson (natch)
Donald Trump (natch)
Dominic Cummings (natch)
Nigel Farage (always)
Waterstones
I missed anyone?
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Brexit nationalists splenetic over Naga Munchetty actually doing her job
@BBCBreakfast
making Matt Hancock account for his government's appalling handling of the current situation
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@JuliaHB1
@allisonpearson
@s8mb
It’s literally just facts, Julia. I’m really no admirer of the CCP government but if you think Covid goes away because you defied it by having a pint in Wetherspoons then Allison will still be demanding an answer to the same daft question this time next year
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I’m sorry, that is just fucking unacceptable
This is absolutely wild. Vietnamese artist An Nguyen has been asked to not show up at
@AAFLondon
because their presence would 'create hesitation' for the non-asian audience.
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I’m absolutely baffled by that
@ace__london
email. I’m fervently NOT a monarchist but I can kind of see the thinking behind cancelling a few public events as a mark of respect. But Arts Council shutting up shop and delaying decisions on funding that people absolutely depend on?
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Rest well, Dad. Life dealt you the very shittiest of hands but you kept on going and you kept on loving and sometimes it was clumsy and awkward and messy but it was so real and you gave us everything
No more pain now no more sorrow
I love you x
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Nadhim Zawahi now praising Mo Farah for overcoming 'unimaginable trauma'
SO WHY DO YOU WANT TO INFLICT THAT TRAUMA ON OTHER MIGRANTS???
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He’s 83, She’s 84, and They Model Other People’s Forgotten Laundry
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Laurence Fox’s “performance” on
#bbcqt
just sums up the unconsidered severity of the diversity problem in our profession. I mean what actor of colour wants to work with a dick like that as the leading man (which of course he would be)?
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June 4th. My favourite picture ever. Never Ever Forget
#June4th
#TiananmenSquareMassacre
#TiananmenMassacre
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@monisha_rajesh
Yeah I think I’m there with that. Don’t come with your ‘Jews Don’t Count’ schticke then pour casual scorn over anyone even wanting to express concern over the plight of people who were already treated like dirt in a place where they used to belong
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So inspiring to see an East Asian actress doing well
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I just want to say thanks to all the many people who've tweeted nice things at me today. I really appreciate it x
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I don't get why theatre journos are so constantly astounded that understudies are so good. London is literally jammed with brilliant actors but you keep on honing in on the same 35 or so you know from the TV
Should the Oliviers include a Best Actor To Unexpectedly Step Into A Leading Role And Thus Save The Day In An Emergency category
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OMG
CONGRATULATIONS👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
@DanielYorkLoh
directed LAID written by Bernadette Davis award winner Best Sci Fi at Cannes Shorts! SO SO THRILLED for everyone - what a week!
@nicolatchang
@RADA_London
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Joking aside (and you can surely see that I do have a sense of humour) I think I’m going to find
@EquityUK
offering me up on a plate to racists a difficult thing to forgive I’m afraid
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So thrilled about about this
Anouncing the cast of Abhishek Majumdar's
#PahLa
: Paul Chan, Tuyen Do, Zachary Hing, Daniel York Loh, Kwong Loke, Richard Rees, Gabby Wong, Millicent Wong.
Director: Debbie Hannan
Design: Lily Arnold
Lighting design: Jessica Hung Han Yun
Composition & sound design: Tom Gibbons
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All this theatre streaming going on. So so little of it (any at all?) by people of colour. You can really can see the stark structural inequalities at work in British theatre. And I suspect the COVID aftermath will set us back even more
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Imagine being a 19 year old getting racially abused for missing a penalty by people who can’t even stay sober till 8 o’ clock at night
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I was a Boy Scout for a few weeks once. It was the UK equivalent of the Hitler Youth Movement. The racist bullying I received there has traumatised me ever since
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“Equity and La*rence F*x can issue as many joint statements and apologies as they like. It’s nothing to do with me and I apologise for nothing.”
Not sorry and there’s nothing you can do about it!!!!
#NotInMyName
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At all my schools there were teachers that were openly racist to me. Birbal is a monster
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I've just been informed that I have NOT been elected on to the
@EquityUK
Council. As I said before, I'm not bothered. I now don't have to spend my birthday in a big long meeting (which I would've). I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me/supported me. I'm truly moved by it
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Tories get away with Tory Islamophobia because most of their party and their base is happily Islamophobic and racist so they don’t care, whereas antisemitism in the Labour Party is a trauma because Labour members and voters DO care
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I’m actually staggered by this and profoundly humbled
@InclusiveAwards
#IA22
Congratulations to Dame Martina Milburn CBE,
@adamhillscomedy
, Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin MBE,
@MarcusRashford
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@profamandakirby
,
@DanielYorkLoh
,
@parislees
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@WarwickADavis
,
@MsLadyPhyll
, Dan Brooke, Anna Manwah Lo MBE
#DiversityPowerList
#IA22
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.
@jasminedotiwala
absolutely brilliant forensically shredding the subpar Jackie Collins tabloid narrative being parroted here
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JANUARY 20TH
WE OPEN DR. SEMMELWEIS AT BRISTOL OLD VIC TONIGHT!!!
I TESTED NEGATIVE!!!
I’M GONNA DO IT ONCE AT LEAST!!!
*Many thanks the amazing Thalissa Teixeira for taking this photo
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Huge respect to John Boyega for this. Too many actors think we have to play nice about this shit. We really shouldn’t
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Cameron Mackintosh makes a thing of being on the wrong side of history. Let’s all remember that in 1990 he had no issues doing ‘gimmick casting’ yellowface in Miss Saigon
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I could write a whole thesis on this but that final primal howl on the word ‘boooooy’ before the tempo change literally makes the hairs on the back your neck stand up
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Basic I know but could all British East Asians note that this was for playing an East Asian character in an East Asian story made by an East Asian creative who wanted to put East Asian actors and East Asian characters at the centre of her East Asian story
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The argument for theatre that I absolutely hate is the one about it being “a vital training ground for TV and film”.
If we do lose our industry the fact that we have absolutely sold it for years as a junior partner to screen drama celebrity will be a huge factor in its demise
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Esther Eng was a successful restauranteur, Cantonese opera connoisseur, out lesbian, and filmmaker who made movies on her own terms in both Hong Kong and San Francisco. And this was all in the 1930s and 40s. via
@variety
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Quentin Letts "made an extended and unforgivable racial slur against me and my fellow actors of colour. And for that he owes us an apology" Too right
#IStandWithLeo
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“I was number one on IMDb, Iron Fist was the top watched show on Netflix... In England, meanwhile, I got an offer to audition for a character called ‘cafe shop employee’ ... She had five lines and they wanted me to audition for it.” 🤦🏻♂️
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Thank you for all your kind responses to this. One thing I really did love about my father: unlike a lot of Chinese heritage people in Britain in his generation, he truly hated the Tories and everything they stand for
Proud of you, dad x
Rest well, Dad. Life dealt you the very shittiest of hands but you kept on going and you kept on loving and sometimes it was clumsy and awkward and messy but it was so real and you gave us everything
No more pain now no more sorrow
I love you x
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Don't get me wrong I hope Boris Johnson recovers quickly but I can see the Tory propaganda machine ramping up to a Churchillian narrative about the "heroism" of the man and, I'm sorry, I reject that. The heroes are ordinary people dying in their thousands. No
#ClapForBoris
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Julia Hartley Brewer gets completely taken to the cleaners on every single one of her sub-Daily Mail attempted anti-migrant posits
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Aspects of Gove. I think I’ve definitely ruined that one
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Apparently Nish Kumar described Nigel Farage as ‘a sack of meat brought to life by a witches curse’.
Not only is that absolutely hilarious it’s also hilariously accurate
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Equity have deleted all the tweets mentioned here and locked down our
@EquityMEM
account which only goes to show that for all the bleating about "no platforming" the only people who actually get shut down are activist people of colour via
@TheStage
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Someone tried to get me disqualified from the
@EquityUK
Council elections via the most arcane technicality in the horror-show that is the Equity rulebook. Thankfully they didn’t succeed. I’m calling it here though: I don’t think I’ll get voted in. Prove me wrong
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And it’s not just her. Someone actually posted a screenshot of the cast with the word ‘no’ on all the Black actor’s faces. I actually want to buy a ticket now
I'm not gonna share those disgusting racist tweets, but I'm gonna state that Francesca is a gorgeous human being - both inside and out. I can't wait to see her in
@JamieLloydCo
's Romeo & Juliet and fucking eat it up it like I know she can. The people that know, KNOW.
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I ponder getting rid of my ‘York’ surname all the time. It’s an actual colonial grab by a White man who didn’t even legally adopt my father. When Industry East Asians refer to me contemptuously as ‘York’ I hope they know what they’re doing and what systems they’re upholding
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How about a bunch of White slebs tell the good Caucasian folk in the shires not to go bare-ass conga dancing down small town roads?
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I could do this all day but
@lyngardner
has totally championed diversity in a way none of those privileged white males ever could or would. And she didn't do that because of white liberal PC guilt. She did it because she believed in a better, more vibrant theatre
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Tories getting that sinking feeling that every fringe theatre actor knows so well
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WE WON WE WON WE WON!!!! BUT IT WAS SUCH AN AMAZING SHORTLIST TO BE ON!!!!
Congratulations to Digital Storytelling winners
@ChineseArtsNow
and
@TwoTemplePlace
#DigitalCultureAwards
– an incredible interactive exhibition telling stories of the Chinese migrant experience
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And this is how the photo board
@royalcourt
looks now. It's a thing of beauty
#PahLa
#DismantleThisRoom
#WhitePearl
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I guess that’s what happens when you’re an authoritarian homophobic government shill
Jackie Chan admits he 'can’t talk to young people' and is 'completely out of touch with their language'
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It really is Dumb Privileged White Man Season innit. Go on, @ me. If you’re White working class these toff gammons are *not* your friend
“Piers Morgan horrifies viewers as he mocks Chinese language on GMB” via
@MetroUK
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Allison Pearson and Julia Hartley-Brewer are both mystified that lockdowns in Asia have worked against Covid while their preferred ploy of defying the pandemic by having a street party and singing God Save The Queen at it won’t quite do the trick
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Cannot for the life of me see why an account run by mainland Chinese activists who translate PRC social media comments has been closed down by
@twitter
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And he’s talking about the lucky ones. Some “really talented” writers are leaving theatre “in droves” to work in call centres
.
@royalcourt
artistic director
@mrdavebyrne
has warned that "really talented" writers are leaving theatre "in droves" to work in television.
Read more here 👉
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Pains me to report that as my friend left the
#StandWithHongKong
London march today he ran into a well-known pro-CCP organiser who set his thugs on him. My friend’s partner & step-daughter were assaulted & are in shock. Reported to police. Stay safe, everyone
#HongKongProtests
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The Whitest of White Gaze
An epic new drama following the lives of a British family during the Japanese invasion of Singapore.
The Singapore Grip starts 13th September on ITV and
@itvhub
#AllNewITV
@davemorrissey64
@ElizabethTan8
@LukeTreadaway
@janehorrocks_
#TheSingaporeGrip
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This is like literally every TV producer talking about an actor of colour they’ve seen in an American movie or series while perpetually closing the door in their own sphere of power
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Surely 2018 has proved once and for all that if you let people of colour and women into theatre spaces then theatre immediately becomes more powerful, more urgent, more vibrant, more important and just plain enthralling and artistically mind-blowing
#RepresentationMatters
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I wrote this for the Guardian. With everything that's going on with China at the moment British East Asian artists cannot afford to be irrelevant and cheesily insignificant. We have to do better
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I’m very very honoured to be given this by
@InclusiveAwards
Even more honoured that it came from nominations from the public apparently . Thank you, wherever you are
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And Elizabethans were about 4’11” tall, had terrible skin, terrible teeth, STD’s, stank and dropped dead when they were 40. “Historical accuracy” basically means “racism”
People are asking if it's historically accurate to have black characters in
#Bridgerton
& I want to point out that Jane Austen herself included a WOC in her unfinished novel Sanditon, also set during the Regency period. Crystal Clarke played her in the TV series.
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