With contemporary hit series such as Empire, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, it’s easy to forget that television doesn’t have the best record for casting diversity. Artist Julio Salgado has rectified this historical oversight by recasting many of our favorite, queer-inclusive series from years gone by, including Will & Grace, My So-Called Life, Sex and the City and The Golden Girls (just imagine an even sassier Dorothy!). Salgado posted the series of illustrations on his Facebook page and with the following note titled “POC TV Show Takeover,” he explains his inspiration.
Scroll down to see some of Salgado’s TV-inspired art and his thoughts on possible plot developments. We’d watch all of these.
Jordan and Angela are two young Muslim teenagers who must deal with love and Islamophobia in the U.S. Wilson Cruz comes back as Rickie.
This Roseanne is made up of a Mexican family living in Huntington Park.
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Xena and Gabrielle are two Native women who must face off white colonizers.
These are the Sex and the City girls I’d be friends with!
This version of Golden Girls is all about social justice and it stars Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Angela Davis, Dolores Huerta and Grace Lee Boggs…may she rest in power.
Grace is a Korean-American fashion designer living in San Francisco with her best friend Will, a black gay immigration lawyer.
My version of Friends is set in Oakland. They are mostly college students of color that met at a multicultural center. You’ll see them at protests and rolling deep at First Fridays rolling their eyes at white people taking up too much space.
Gothrykke
Maybe it’s the eyes, but I feel like these are just generic stock image styles. There’s no personality to the images and it’s puts me off the message.
Lvng1Tor
@Gothrykke: Not only that…which i agree…it’s just a marketing tool for an OK artist…it might as well be disney princesses or some other ambiguous overdone…this show, movie, book done as another race, gender, religion…it means nothing. These shows were not racially diverse and painting the people with different features does nothing to change that. Focus on moving forward not recasting the past. marketing tool for buzzfeed and simple minded people. Nothing more
Marky
“Jordan and Angela are two young Muslim teenagers who must deal with love and Islamophobia in the U.S. Wilson Cruz comes back as Rickie.” Angela must deal with the shocking revelation that she has thirteen, count it, thirteen gay coworkers. What will she do? Inform them of their sins, ignore their existence completely, or should she start casting stones? Tune in next week for “Family Who Supports Religion That Would Have Gay People Killed As Soon As Look At Them As Not To Offend The Peripheral Vision of The Classic Muslim”. Same bigot time, same bigot channel. Not supporting silly religious views is NOT ISLAMAPHOBIC. If you are gay and you support this religion in any way: SHAME ON YOU!
Marky
If I dated a man from a muslim, jewish or christian family I’m sure there would be a lot of therapy sessions involved to undo the damage.
Marky
I may have been spoiled; my parents didn’t go to church, because they didn’t worship a bunch of dead aliens like those sex-obsessed monotheistic freaks.
Marky
If you drink “jesus-blood” in a wineglass once a year, you need to get your fuckin’ head examined.
Marky
The rest seems relevant though. Do NOT support that horrible insidious religion. PLEASE. It’s like JEWISH PEOPLE being sympathetic to the NEO NAZI MOVEMENT. Do you not GET THAT?
Marky
Or are you a straight female commentator in the gay voices section in huffington post? 😉 (They need to really get out of the way and enjoy their privileged straight white lives eh?)
Marky
Yeah, miffed. 😛
Marky
This is what 30+ years of bullshit in a small town full of monster truck enthusiasts does to you 😉
Milton Appleby
The art is terrible.
Xzamilio
What actually defines Islamophobia, though? I don’t think I have an irrational fear of Islam… I’d say it’s as rational as my fear of fundamentalist Christianity being imposed on our country… it’s just that we have more Christian crazies in this country than we do Muslim crazies, but the religions are terribly stifling to women, LGBT individuals, and nonbelievers… and god help the lesbian nonbelievers lol!! I do agree that attacking Muslims as individuals is absolutely deplorable, but the religion? Uh-uh… it needs some serious addressing.
Stevenw
Thats a lot of purple lipstick.
Blackceo
Yeah no I don’t need to see any of those predominantly white shows re-made with POC characters. There is enough culture a d storytelling in communities of color without the need to remake shows of white culture. I want authenticity, not some white washed POC characters. But, the point is well taken. The only of those shows he did art for that I never watched was Friends. Never saw the hype. Couldn’t relate to any of them.
Masc Pride
Maybe Julio can take all his doodles and make an ORIGINAL cartoon…filled with all the “get revenge on white people” plots his hostile little mind can think up.
Ummmm Yeah
I’m disgusted by the misappropriation of white culture by people with no talent. They can’t created their own so they steal.
Ogre Magi
@Marky: BRAVO
Ogre Magi
@Xzamilio: Very well said
meghanada
#Appropriation