Black Women and Femmes in Entertainment

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NOVA & CHANTAL | QUEEN SUGAR

[talas-first-lady]

If you could teach a master class for young, queer creatives of color but you could only teach it through storytelling — no advice, no lecture — what scene from your real life would you use to educate them?

The first thing that's coming to my mind is an audition. I was auditioning for Legends of Tomorrow. I hadn't had much experience and I was 23 years old at the time in Los Angeles. I've never been a series regular before. Everyone was looking glam and glitzy and gorgeous. Back in the day, you used to have to wait and see all your competition [laughs] and I came in a tank top and jeans. Everyone's kind of like looking at me and everyone's chit-chatting. They all know each other. I felt so small and I just sat there.

I was like, no, I refused to question myself by asking, Why not me? I gathered myself and got my self motivation and power together. I went in and I smashed it. I gave my best, and I gave my true self. I didn't try to be like any of the other women. I just was like, this is me and it was a very honest performance. I was the underdog. I was the misfit. I use those things to my advantage and as a result, I won. I think especially as queer people, as people of color, often we are not the dominant voice in the room. We're not the one who's necessarily given the microphone. We're not the most numbered. I think it's even more important to lean into what makes you an individual and not try to blend in or try to dim light for the comfort of others in that space.

How Maisie Richardson-Sellers 'fought' for her 'Nine Perfect Strangers' character

The actress talks about how she advocated to give Wolfie a backstory — and a three-dimensional love story.

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[figandthewasp]

[audrey-inspo]

Seynabou Z. Cissé

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[robinsteves]

THUSO MBEDU as ALEAH CLINTON Task, ‘Crossings’

[badassdemonsword-deactivated202]

Music - the art of song

[lebornaciar]

gods for the modern age: sekhmet

[lebornaciar]

be a fighter: fight all those who oppose you, and when your people fall, fight death too. be a queen: deck yourself in gold and jewels and wear regality in every glittering gemstone. be the desert: scorching and bright, magnificent and deadly. wear your lion’s heart on your sleeve and hold your head high and if anyone tries to tear you down, destroy them.

[biancalawsongifs]

 You love him, don’t you? 

[creatingblackcharacters]

its like people need you to be their momma im tired man. "ah ah ice these people are being antiblack in other people's comments sections!" if you don't get the fuck off your ass and call it out when you see it i swear to gods above.

Tbh, I think it was meant to cause drama. I think I was expected to go "who is it??? Where???" And it's like. I'm not about to go digging in people's blogs to start fights that other people wanna see. It's one thing when the fight gets brought to me, or it's something I'm passionate about anyway. But otherwise, I'm not an attack dog 😅 This isn't a colosseum where Ice has to fight EVERY battle for everyone else. If people are being antiblack ofc I don't like that, but I also teach people that THEY can do something about that too!

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Also... If I'm not in the space, why would I go to it when I was just told people being antiblack?

"How do you feel about this thing in this space you're not in?"

Like I'm in the right space for not being over there!

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

I had a friend who would do this about right when I left them out of things. (Well, she would ask me what she should say). And she's Korean, Black and Hawaiian with a Black and Korean son and a white husband.

And one of these times where I was guiding her through how I would respond to a thing, she mentioned that she leaned on people like me for guidance because I'm "really good at this."

And I told her that I'm not "good" at it, I just have to do it more than a lot of people who never have to think about it. And in the course of the conversation, I said that I was tired of it and really was ready not to say nothing at all and just disengage with certain people.

And this woman's ugly white husband had the audacity to tell ME, the fully Black person in the conversation, "Well, I don't have the option of not saying anything because I have a Black wife and child."

SIR. You actually DO have an option and I'm glad you will continue to speak, but who the fuck are you talking to? Your wife is asking ME how to handle this bitch in y'all's life. I don't even know that fucking person she tagged me in to address. Why she ain't cone to you, Mr. No Choice?"

Anyways. I'll watch somebody fight for they life and blacklist a tag before I come rushing in to come see bout anybody that didn't organically cross my path. Fuck them people. Lol. Give a shit what they doing in a room I wasn't tryna enter.

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

To clarify, I wasn't the only fully Black person she knew, but at the time, I was probably the only one in her life who was vocal about certain things. And I no longer have nonblack friends outside of online spaces and they're pretty limited there. I very much usually am dealing with this from other Black people, specifically ones who I do think look up to me and get a little confused about my role in their lives because of that.

[finhabastos]

↳ “But you will follow Misty’s orders. Those orders, everybody follows.”

[naomiswilliams]

Georgina's characters + smiles

[erniesbrainfreeze]

“i think aisha would’ve got with all of them”

[justinsimien]

Just when my edges were starting to grow back, here come Avy DuVernay with A Wrinkle In Time

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Remember when Justin Simien used to be on Tumblr?

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Winter Hayle

Winter Hayle is a Lunar ambassador, formerly known as the princess of Luna, and was the stepdaughter of Queen Levana. Winter was born on Jan

We don't support the name Blackburn on this blog.

[hiiighpriestess913]

Y’all I’m being so serious when I say this: go to the library for witchcraft reasons.

You can usually find books on witchcraft, yes, but there’s also field guides on local foraging and wildlife, cookbooks, books that teach you how to craft and DIY, books about environmental protection and stewardship, books on how to use herbs medicinally, books about other religions, cultures, and spiritual practices. My favorite local library even has a seed swapping program and fantastic resources to research your own family history!

Go to the library for witchcraft. Please. :) <3

[creatingblackcharacters]

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Gjg1dkoR8/

53K views · 5.6K reactions | I really want every follower I have to watch this video. | Uppity Negress Redux

I really want every follower I have to watch this video.

All fax, no printer! It's one thing when I come across racist shit organically, like she said. If I make the choice to engage with something, it's a choice I'm allowed to make with my time and my concern.

I don't even read comments anymore on other people's stuff. I said that a long time ago. That's one of the things I do to protect my mental health and my dignity, because comments on Tumblr and every other social media are FILLED with bigots that thrive off of each other's antiblackness. If I do go in comments, it's either bc I'm fired up willingly or bc it's my friends.

If I wanna fight, I'll fight. If I don't, I don't. But I'm one person of many fighting a war much bigger than me.

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

This is a content creator that I've followed for maybe about 10 years, and as long as she's been online cultivating her space and really building her brand from scratch (and at one point having to rebuild because they deleted her original account, if after a decade, people still do this to creators, they have to be being willfully harmful.