#black representation
Representation matters: all 54 characters together! Can you name them all? • by @msartsyace
I’ve posted both of these individually but I took a bit of time to digitally merge them together into one big comp! This is hands down my favorite art piece I’ve ever done.
Interesting fact: 4 of these characters were played by Samuel L Jackson and 3 of them were voiced by Phil Lamarr, something I only realized after I completed these drawings.
Reblogging this because it’s still my favorite drawing I’ve done yet
Galaxy’s #1 Grandpa
First art for Black History Month! Representation matters.
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Day 1: Greef Karga (and Grogu!)
Stocking Anarchy
Time Taken: 7 hours
I didn’t know what to name this so now Ibis paint x has it labeled as “lmao”
Time taken: 8 hours 44 minutes
Black Fae Day
Super excited for Black Fae Day. Made this yesterday to spread the word.
Remember when media used to let Black Girls be Black girls on screen and not whyte girls in a dark font???
Cinderella & Prince Christopher 1997 // 2021✨
hello! here are some recommendations of POC BNHAwriters who write for black!readers! I’m really happy that you can get the representation that you deserve through those amazing writers!
⤷ I chose those recommendations regardless of my own rules, which means that you could find dark content on those blogs. I do not support dark content AT ALL, but I support POC writers and readers, and I guess some readers like dark themes so… anyways, read whatever you want!
. my own discoveries…
⤷ don’t worry, if I make new discoveries, I will add them to this recc list! until then, enjoy!
Black history month six fanarts
Craig from craig of the creek
This cartoon is very chill i like it. It reminds me of we bare bears or molly mcgee
Black history month six fanarts
Miles morales!
Im really looking forward to into the spiderverse 2 im so excited to see the story and miles in action again
Black history month six fanarts
April o neil from rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles
She is the best version of april in my opinion, i like rotmnt more than all the other versions
Black history month 6 fanarts
Jo from kid cosmic on netflix
Kid cosmic is talked about so little its such a good show but its so underrated i wish the fandom was bigger
I haven’t watched season 3 but i watched season 2 and that was when jo was the focus i loved it
this shit is so heartbreaking. this is literally horrible because GREAT black hairstylists exist within the industry but yt people will go out of their way to close doors on people who could be making their projects 10x better.
Bridgerton: Colourism in Action
I finally got round to watching the Netflix series Bridgerton, by Executive producer Shonda Rhimes.
Like many Black women, I was eager to watch a fictitious show that would hopefully be “inclusive of all races” more importantly, I was sure that the show would go against the grain and cast Black dark skin women in leading roles.
I was sadly mistaken.
All the unambiguous looking Black women with dark to brown skin tones were casted as subservient characters with little to no lines, and used as part of the background scenery.
While the key female characters of colour were played by the following ambiguous looking Black women and Bi-racial women:
Golda Rosheuvel - plays Queen Charlotte
Adjoa Andoh - plays Lady Danbury
Ruby Barker - plays Marina Thompson
Kathryn Dysdale - plays Genevieve Delacroix
Emma Naomi plays - Alice Mondrich
I’m not surprised but I am disappointed, as this could have been avoided.
From a representation standpoint, Bridgerton is perpetuating the notion that Black women with light skin, particularly women with mixed ancestry, are more deserving of opportunities, admiration and a voice, over Black women with darker skin and Afrocentric phenotypes.
Colourism is just as dangerous on screen as it is off screen, as it reinforces the idea that dark skin is not good enough, or palatable for the dominate race to accept.
Anyway, I want to reinforce that lighter skin is not more beautiful than darker skin, they’re equally beautiful. However, I appreciate that so many, especially gatekeepers within media still haven’t got the memo.
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