Maegan and I have not written about all the talk about the “new” Disney princess who is to be Latina. There’s lots of talk about the image and representation and I’ve just not been all that interested in having this conversation honestly. However, the commentary that is surfacing around this new princess is interesting. My favorite quote on the subject was shared with me by @dopegirlfresh of Hip Hop is 4 Lovers. Yara Sofia, a Puerto Rican drag queen of RuPaul’s Drag Race fame, and who is now on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars with 2 other Puerto Rican queens, Nina Flowers and Alexis Mateo, writes on her facebook page:
LOOK!1!!! THE NEW DISNEY LATIN PRINCESS… HER NAME IS SOFIA NOT SOPHIA… SOFIA LIKE MOI! SHES BRUNNETTE WITH BLUE EYES.. IM SURE Disney WATCHED RuPaul’s Drag Race.
A Disney spokesperson has now said that the character is “inspired” by a Spanish and Scandanavian union, thus all the ruckus on the internets is really not about her being a Latina after all?!. NBC Latino reports: “Craig Gerber, co-executive producer/writer on the project says, “Princess Sofia is a mixed-heritage princess in a fairy-tale world. Her mother is originally from an enchanted kingdom inspired by Spain (Galdiz) and her birth father hailed from an enchanted kingdom inspired by Scandinavia.”
If you’re not all that insterested in having this conversation then why are you having it? Are all the Latina blogs coordinated now? It seems like it. In an election year, many of the political blogs have been replaced by airheaded “mommy” blogs.
@karen perhaps you do not know what “shade” is in our communities because Yara Sofia’s quote is an example. Shade ends a conversation oftentimes even before it has begun.