MJ Adia
Oct 27, 2021

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In Peru, there was something like that. Not quite a festival, but there would be men, or at least I saw one man who would do this constantly, put balloons for his rear-end and breasts, wear blackface and a wig, and be a version of the Nega Maluca. There was also the Jacinta character, which was also a man dressed as an Indigenous women with makeup and teeth blackened with makeup. It's horrible. She has become a TV show and TV series. It's very dehumanizing.

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MJ Adia
MJ Adia

Written by MJ Adia

Black-Filipina. Lived in Peru for 5 years. LICSW, dancer, meditator. Writes about multiculturalism, cinema, race, social issues.

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