#agdocgoty2016

[nethilia]

American Girl has gone sixteen years without giving girls full representation. No Black girls. No fully Asian or South Pacific Girls. No Native Girls, no Middle Eastern Girls. Every other five years is pitiful and insulting. Even if we count #SonaliMatthews in the group (she was a sidekick and did not frontline the #GirloftheYear), that's still only five girls. American Girl, why aren't you representing everyone? Give us Dolls of Color for Girls of the Year. We don't need to be part white to be loved and represented. #AGDoCGotY2016 #AGDoCGotY #AGIG #MarisolLuna #LeaClark #KananiAkina #JessMcConnell #AGGotYDiversity

[nethilia]

Sixteen years and the representation is lacking still. All but #MarisolLuna has been partially white, and #LeaClark is 1/8th. American Girl, you are not representing girls like you should. Where are our Black Girls? Where are our Native Girls? Where are our East Asian, South Asian, Polynesian, and Middle Eastern Girls? There's been no girl that hasn't been biracial since 2005. We don't need whiteness to make a character palatable. You can do better. You should do better. Stop dancing around diversity. Give us Dolls of Color for Girl of the Year. There's no excuse for this lack of oversight. #AGDoCGotY2016 #AGDoCGoty #AGGotYDiversity #AGIG #GirloftheYear