A couple of things happened that led to me making this list. The first was this post, which probably will annoy me for the rest of time, whenever I recall it. The other reason was @creatingblackcharacters presented a theme of Black Girl Magic May. BFCD loves a theme! (There often isn't enough content ON Tumblr to go very far with them, but we love to have them, when we can. So, in participating with cbc's Black Girl Magic May, I went through the blog to try to gather up all the magical Black girls featured here!
For context: I am going with the concept of magical girls and listing the Black and/or Black coded ones. I am not mentioning every Black character who has magic, and I am not listing nonmagical Black Girl Magic (shoutout to CaShawn Thompson!! If you don't know her, that's interesting to me. She used to be on here, we were cool. LOOK HER UP!)
With that being said, shoutout to CBC for the prompt, CaShawn for the energy, and creators for the characters. This is
BFCD Masterlist: Black Magical Girls Edition
Adorned by Chi: Adaeze Adichie, Chigozie "Gogo" Okafor, Kelechi | Aisha Winx | Alchemical Water (Undine Wells) Sleepless Domain | Alex MGFS | Alice Kingston | Amari Olúborí | Amari Peters | Amethyst Heart | Annette | Antiope Jones | Audrey Rose
Binti (Binti Ekeopara Zuzu Dambu Kaipka of Namib) I'm sorry, I love her name so much. | Bree Matthews | Briseis Greene
ChiChi of Nimm
Diamond Heart
Electric Rose
Fallon | Frankie Williams | Frida
Goo
Hazel Flood
Iris | Iyanu | Izira
Jordan Hennessy
Karina | Kat Elliot (Katherine Koniqua Elliot) Negro Names, they could never make me hate you.
Sam Butler | Sam Nightingale | Serwa Boateng | Sierra Santiago | Skara | Soleil Le Claire | Sparkle Cadet | Star Guardian | Sunny Nwazue | Suvirin "Suvi" Kedberiket (The Wizard, Sky)
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
As many of you well know, this is a Black femme specific page where I only highlight Black characters, entertainers and events. But, as a space that includes all manner of Black girls, women, femmes, and fluid marginalized genders, I will highlight Black people and characters of various backgrounds.
Today, in Black Herstory, for the first time, blackfemmecharacterdependency will give some focused attention to Black women with Asian heritage for AAPI Heritage Month. Note: The list also has Black women with Asian lineage who are NOT American.
Amanda Du-Pont Swazi-born South African with French, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese | Amerie: Korean mother + African-American father | Ana Hikari is often listed on these lists because there is some African ancestry, but she doesn't identify as Black, and in fact identifies specifically as a mixed heritage Asian person, so. I mean... I am looking at her and listing her, but this lady is not and doesn't claim to be Black | Angel Moret: Japanese + Creole | Aoki Lee Simmons: mixed Korean and Japanese/ African-American mother + raggedy ass African American father | Ariana Miyamoto: Japanese mother + African American father | Asia Jackson: Black (African-American) + Filipino (specifically, her mother is ethnically Igorot) | Ayesha Curry: mother is of Afro-Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican descent ꨄ︎, while her father is of African-American and Polish descent
Bae Yujin: Korean mother + Nigerian father | Blair Kim
Cassie Ventura: African-American, Mexican, and West Indian mother ꨄ︎ + Filipino father | Chanel Iman: half-Korean and half-African American mother ꨄ︎ + African American father | Chelsea Manalo: Filipino mother + African-American father | Chipo Chung: Chinese Zimbabwean mother + Zimbabwean (often cited as Mberengwa origin) father, born in a Tanzanian refugee camp (which I simply found interesting) | Crystal Kay; Zainichi Korean born in Japan mother + African-American father stationed in Japan
Dawn Lyen Gardner: Chinese American mother + African American father | Denyce Lawton: Korean mother + African American father
Fatima Kojima: Of mixed English, Japanese, Native American, and African American descent | Freema Agyeman: Iranian Kurdish mother + Ghanaian father
Genneya Walton: Biracial (Mixed/Black) was all I could find. The mom looks Asian, but Idk which + Black father, she identifies as mixed, woman of color and biracial from what I saw, but I'm not sure if she has or will expand on this. I've mostly seen her play Black and Black biracial roles.
H.E.R.; Filipina mother + African American father | Hehleena Million: She is of Thai and Black descent | Helen Lasichanh: Laotian-Ethiopian
Jari Jones: Black mother ꨄ︎ + Filipino father (this was a bit unclear if he was fully Filipino or biracial, but she was raised by her mother) | Jemima Gbato | Jessica Sula: Afro-Trinidadian/Chinese mother ꨄ︎ + Welsh-German-Estonian father | Jhene Aiko: Japanese, Spanish, and Dominican mother + African American, Native American, and German Jewish descent father | Judith Hill: Japanese mother + African-American father
Karrueche Tran: Vietnamese mother + African-American father | Keylani | Kimora Lee: Japanese-Korean mother + African-American father
Laya DeLeon Hayes: Her mother is Filipino and her father is Black. That is usually the case, but I'll let y'all in on a lil' secret: Sometimes, I be thinking full Filipino people are actual Black people. Them and certain South Asians have thrown me for a loop many-a-times | Leyna Bloom: Filipina mother + African-American father | Lisa Wu: Afro-Caribbean mother ꨄ︎ + first-generation Chinese-American father
Maritza Murray: I just found out that this is NOT a woman mixed with any Asian heritage. She just played one in a movie.
Marie Nakagawa: Japanese mother + Senegalese father | Marpessa Dawn: African-American mother ꨄ︎ + Filipino father | Merle Dandridge: mother is Korean (also described as half Japanese and half Korean in some reports) + African-American father | Mia Isaac: Chinese mother + Panamanian father | Michelle Lee - This name is SO hard to get the right person, but I found her Wikipedia because, we probably will struggle on Tumblr to get content for her: Korean mother + African-American father | Mila J (Jamila Akiko Aba Chilombo): primarily identifying as African-American and Japanese | Ming Lee Simmons: mixed Korean and Japanese/African-American mother + raggedy ass African American father | Misa Hylton: Japanese-Jamaican mother + African American father | Mona Hammond: Afro-Jamaican mother ꨄ︎ + Chinese father
Naomi Osaka: Japanese mother + Haitian father
Paris Blu: South Asian (Indian) mother + Black/African American father | Princess Love: Filipina mother + African-American father
Rae Dawn Chong: Black Canadian and Cherokee descent mother ꨄ︎ + Chinese and Scots-Irish/French father | Rinamary: She identifies as 🇯🇵×🇳🇬 (half Japanese, half Nigerian)
Salem Koussa: Lebanese/Italian mother + Sierra Leonean father | Salem Mitchell: half Black, half Filipina mother ꨄ︎ + Black father |
Saweetie: Filipina-Chinese mother + African-American father. She identifies as "tri-racial," encompassing Black, Filipino, and Chinese heritage. I am pointing this out because I know she's Black and Asian, but since she has two Asian cultures, she identifies as 3 races.
Sharon Leal: Filipina mother + African-American father | Shenseea | Sofia Wylie: German/English mother + Korean/African-American father | Sonja Sohn: Korean mother + African American father | Stephanie Hikaru African American and Japanese | Sydney Park: African American mother ꨄ︎ + Korean father
Tae Heckard: Korean mother + African American father | Tahirah Sharif: Pakistani mother + Jamaican father | Tati Gabrielle half Korean half African-American mother ꨄ︎ + African American father | Tai’Aysha: Dominican mother ꨄ︎ + Cambodian father... lemme know if she is a Dominican that do not believe in being Black, because I couldn't specifically find anything,but other lists include her as "Blasian," so idk for sure | Tracy Wanjiru: Kenyan (Kikuyu) / Korean
Vinetria Chubbs: African American and Korean
Winnie Zhong Feifei: Chinese mother + Congolese father
Yara Shahidi: African American and Choctaw mother ꨄ︎ + Iranian father | Yoon Mi-rae: Korean mother + African American father | Yung Blasian
Zoe Love Smith: Curaçaoan and Indonesian | Zola Stone??? Remember whenever I was talking about sometimes I can't tell? Although I often see this woman called Blasian, I think this might simply be a Filipina lady.
Normally, I don't personally use "African American" for Black Americans, because if our African connections have been severed and erased, that doesn't feel like the proper labels to me, but I was copy pasting most of these, so unless an actual African nation is listed on this post, presume that is a Black American and I didn't feel like making the corrections when I copied from the search engine.
For the purposes of this list, I am including voice actors for cartoons, video games, podcasts, and audiobook narrators. I don't think the industry has enough Black women working to separate those.
Adesua Etomi-Wellington: Olori, Inayu
Aisha Tyler: Lana Kane, Archer | Nubia, The Boys: Diabolical | Millie Tuskmon, Monsters at Work | Luna, The Boondocks | Sextina Aquafina, Bojack Horseman | Lena Luthor, Harley Quinn Series | Angela Abar, Robot Chicken
Alfre Woodard: Mimi, Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur | Sarabi, The Lion King Live Action Movie | Queen Mother, Dondi Reese, Dora Milaje, Miss M'Buye - Black Panther Series | Akela, The Wild Thornberries Movie | Jean Hawkins, Static Shock | Medicine Woman, The Wild Thornberries Series
Alison Sealy Smith: Storm - X-Men The Animated Series, Spider-Man 1994 TV Series, X-Men Mutant Academy 2 Videogame, X-Men 97, Marvel's What If...? | Jinga, Time Warp Trio | Gamora, Silver Surfer
Akilah Hughes: Theresa Shaw, Bob's Burgers (Just the Trip) || Akira Golz: Nella, The Princess Knight || Alisha Wainwright: Leona, Star Darlings || Amandla Stenberg: Margo Kess/Spiderbyte, Across The Spiderverse || Amber Riley: Ursula, Ariel
Amber Ruffin: Auntie Amber, Big Mouth | Shauna, Central Park | Dakota, Tuca and Bertie | Mermaid, You're Not a Monster | Purple, M&M
Angela Bassett: Sister Helley, Wendell & Wild | Michelle Obama, The Simpsons | Mildred, Meet the Robinsons | Ana Spanikopita, Bojack Horseman | Dr. Kulinda, Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle | Nana, The Snowy Day | Aurelia Arnot/Six, Rainbow Six: Siege | Dorothea Williams, Soul | Shatter, Bumblebee (Transformers) | Regalia, Horizon: Forbidden West | Queen Ramonda, Marvel's What If...? | Dream, Orion and the Dark
Anika Nani Rose: Tiana, The Princess and the Frog, Kinect Disneyland Adventures, Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure, Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom, Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2, LEGO Disney Princesses: The Castle Quest, Once Upon a Studio, Sofia the First, Tiana's Bayou Adventure | Rita LaFleur, The Simpsons | Yemandi, Avengers Assemble | Lungisa, Khumba | Kuasa, Vixen Series | Acxa, Voltron, Legendary Defender | Eureka, Star Wars: Visions | Catwoman/Selina Kyle, Injustice | Joey Coupet, Nicole, Side-Pony, others - Pantheon | Afia, Mufasa Live Action
Ariana DeBose: Asha, Wish || Asiahn: Karma Grant, Karma's World || Ashleica Edmond: Kazi, The Dragon Prince |
Ashleigh Crystal Hairston: Hazel Wells, Marionette Hazel, Mrs. Mack, Geraldine, The Mayor, Viola, Dazzle, and others - The Fairly Oddparents: A New Wish (They better had paid her good all these dang voices) | Babs Bunny, Tiny Toon Looniversity | Nancy, Marvel Rising Ultimate Comic | Officer Stern, Marvel Rising: Initiation | Nadia, The Loud House | Bask, Avengers Assemble
Ayisha Issa: Fliss, Man of Medan | Jayma, Far Cry Primal
Ayo Edeberi: Missy, Big Mouth | Harriet Tubman, Clone High Reboot | Glory, Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse | Envy, Inside Out 2 | April O'Neil, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bahia Watson: Orange Blossom, Cherry Blossom, Cherry Crisp - Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City | Orange Blossom, Strawberry Shortcake's Perfect Holiday, Strawberry Shortcake and the Beast of Berry Bog, Strawberry Shortcake's Spring Spectacular, Strawberry Shortcake's Summer Vacation | Leshawna, Total Dramarama | Ruby Studebaker, Ruby Mayo, Spicy Cheese, and others - Zokie of Planet Ruby | Lettie, Big Blue
Bahni Turpin
Barbara Pariot: Valerie Brown, Josie & the Pussycats, Josie & the Pussycats in Outer Space, The New Scooby Doo Movies ||
Brenda Crichlow
Bresha Webb
Brianna Bryan: Zoe, COTC || Bria Danielle Singleton: Beth, Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You Movie | Camille, The Loud House || Brooke SIngleton: Young Grace Monroe, Infinity Train
Camille Winbush Ashley Tomossian, Disney's Recess | Rhonda Vega, Children of Ether | Syrena, Cannon Busters || Chelsea Tavares: Nora, The Last of Us 2 Videogame | Glory, Fallout 4 | Young Nala, The Lion King: Simba's Mighty Adventure Videogame || Cherelle Skeete: Orisa, Overwatch |
Cherise Booth: |
Chioma Nwalioba: Annabelle Cane, The Magnus Archives || Cindy McGee: Shana Elmsford, Chrissie - Jem! | Mary Melody, Tiny Toon Adventures
Cree Summer |
Crystal Scales |
Cymphonique Miller: Holly, Phineas and Ferb | Princess Krystal, Winx Club
Dana Davis: |
Dana Gourrier: Noel, Starfield | Rose Chapman, Detroit: Become Human ||
Danielle Nicolet |
Dawnn Lewis |
Debra Wilson |
Desiree Burch | Diamond White | Doria Bell | Dulce Sloan
Ella Balinska | Elle Osili Wood | Ellen Thomas | Erica Luttrell | Estelle
Gabby Soleil | Gabrielle Union | Gina Torres
Imogen Faires | Issa Rae
Jaimi Gray | Jari Jones | Jasika Nicole | Jaylen Barron | Jenifer Lewis | Jessica Cydnee Jackson | Jessica Williams | Jo Marie Payton | Joy Brunson
Kali Troy | Kalilah Harris | Kamaia Fairburn | Kamili Minter | Karen Dyer | Karen Malina White | Kat Graham | Keke Palmer | Kiara Muhammad | Kiersey Clemmons | Kim Yarbrough | Kimberly Bailey | Kimberly Brooks | Kimberly Hebert Gregory | Kimberly Woods | Kirby Howell Baptiste | Kirsten Williamson | Krystal Joy Brown | Kyla Pratt | Kym Whitley
Laya Deleon Hayes | Leslie L. Miller | Lorraine Toussaint | Lucia Cunningham | Lupita Nyong'o | Lyric Ross
This is a collection of the various Jordan Hennessy of The Dreamer Trilogy content that can be found on this blog
Jordan Hennessy General Tag
Aesthetics
Art
Commentary
Excerpts
Fan Art
FCs
Moodboards
"As a dreamer, Hennessy is able to bring things out of her dreams. Hennessy suffers from an entity in her recurring nightmare that she calls "The Lace." This entity sees her and wants to come through her and into the world in order to destroy it. It is because of The Lace that Hennessy makes dream copies of herself."
Hennessy General Tag
Aesthetics
Commentary
Excerpts
Fan Art
Moodboards
Nightwash
Relationships: Hennessy and Jordan, Fanart | Hennessy and Ronan, Fanart | Hennessy & Her Sword "From Chaos"
Wiki
"Hennessy herself notes that they are different in that while Hennessy imagined flinging herself from a roof and falling, Jordan imagined flinging herself from a roof and flying."
Jordan General Tag
Aesthetics
Commentary
Excerpts
Fan Art
Moodboards
Quotes
Relationships: Jordan x Declan, Fanart , Tyrian Purple
Wiki
(Not my photos)
The Hennessy Girls
June | Madox | Farrah | Alba | Brooklyn | Jay | Octavia | Trinity
The real secret was this: Hennessy, Jordan, June, Brooklyn, Madox, Trinity. Six girls with one face.
Hennessy had dreamt them all.
(We deserved more time with them and also, I don't appreciate having to go through all the Black ladies getting massacred like that!)
Just a reminder: Jordan is described as having "dark" skin and as such, should be designed, portrayed, and imagined as a dark skinned Black woman, not a Black woman simply darker than a white person.
Here is a scale to help anybody with a white imagination.
Bethany Antonia FC 𑣲⋆ She is Black ☑, British ☑ Queer ☑ AND, (And I cannot stress enough how important it is to remember this) Dark Skinned! ☑
Black Maternal Health in America is atrocious. I am always tryna encourage others not to get themselves in a position to potentially be murdered by American medical racism, which outandishly disadvantages Black women. But, people get pregnant and love babies, so whenever Black Maternal Health Week rolls around, instead of the usual awareness and warnings, I just kinda wanna show off some of the beauty of Black motherhood. So, here are a few tags that I have and maybe I'll clean this up better in the future.
Maternity | Pregnancy
Motherhood | Mother and Child | Mother and Baby | Mother and Son | Mother and Daughter
Bonus:
Happy Mother's Day
I think it's coming up? My mama died exactly a week before on last year and her death anniversary is coming up, so maybe also Mother's Day is. If it hasn't passed. I haven't looked it up yet because I wasn't really planning on doing one this year (And usually don't do much of one). Maybe next year.
Followers of BFCD may know that I don't read very many books that are not about Black women or Black girls and most of them are written by Black women, and sometimes Black men, others quite infrequently. In Black books, there are generally multiple Black characters, as we aren't generally tokens in our own communities and stories.
But, the list also includes some characters of nonblack books, whether or not I have read them, and those are usually tokenized characters. For the ones that are not, I have decided to place the main character as the alphabetized character and other characters that are represented in those books on this blog will be in the same section of the main character's name.
For example, all Legacy of Orisha Characters with BFCD links will be listed under Zélie Adebola's name on this masterlist.
Agatha of Woods Beyond: The School for Good and Evil, Professor Dovey (Not Black in the books, but because of the movie, much of the fanart now is)
Akasha: The Vampire Chronicles (The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned) Merrick Mayfair
Alice Kingston: The Nightmare Verse (A Blade So Black, A Dream So Dark, A Crown So Cursed)
Amari Peters: Supernatural Investigations (Amari and the Night Brothers, Amari and the Great Game, Amari and the Despicable Wonders)
Amarie "Amma" Treadeau: Beautiful Creatures *I did not read this, but Viola Davis was the character in the movie and I have never known anybody but a Black femme/woman to be an Amarie, so she staying on the book list, as well.
Angelina Weasley: (Harry Potter Series) Now... This is a difficult subject. I was one of the Potterhead from my college years into after my brain fully developed. I did see all the movies in theaters and the last thing I enjoyed was The Cursed Child on Broadway. ONLY TIME I have ever seen something on Broadway... I think the last thing I saw was the first of the Fantastic Beasts movies, and shortly after that, I think was when I first found out about the TERF. For the most part, I hardly feature Potterverse things here, as it makes me upset to see the universe continuing. BUT, this page with book characters felt like I should go head and include it for this particular list. Hermione Granger, Rose Granger Weasley, Lavender Brown, Roxanne Weasely, Lally Hicks
Anne Elliot: Jane Austen... Idk Jane Austen books. I think I tried to read one or two and promptly realized they weren't for me, so if this section is messed up, I think you'll pull through. The characters probably weren't even canonically Black, so idk what to tell you. Sometimes I see aesthetics and reblog them.
Ardelia Mapp: Silence of the Lambs
Arrah N'yar: Kingdom of Souls (Kingdom of Souls, Reaper of Souls, Master of Souls) Efiya, Essnai
Autumn Knight: Pinned
Beloved: (Beloved) Sethe, Denver | Binti Ekeopara Zuzu Dambu Kaipka of Namib: Binti Trilogy (Binti, Binti: Home, Binti: The Night Masquerade) | Bitter: Bitter, Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
Bree Matthews: The Legendborn Cycle
Briseis Greene: This Poison Heart (This Poison Heart, This Wicked Fate) | Marie
The Brown Sisters: (Talia Hibbert..So, I haven't read any of these either, though I do run into aesthetics from time to time. From my perceptions, they seem to be swirler romance fiction of some sort. Not necessarily my genre, but including them because they do wind up on the page at times.) Dani Brown, Eve Brown
Camellia Beauregard: The Belles
Carmel Schneider: Nine Perfect Strangers. Idk if she's in the book because I only watched the series and I didn't care enough for the series to go read the book, but here she is, if she is in there.
Celie: The Color Purple Shug Avery, Sophia, Squeak. The Color Purple has various adaptations and interpretations. Originally a book, it belongs on the book list, however, most Tumblr content for the work come from the movies and the play.
Christina: Divergent Series
Coco Monvoisin: Serpent & Dove
Cresseida: A Court of Thorns and Roses
Daja Kisubo Circle of Magic (Daja's Book)
Eadaz du Zāla uq-Nāra: The Priory of the Orange Tree
Farah Hauville: Wayhaven Chronicles
God: The Shack
Greta Goblin: The Tea Dragon Society
Hazel Levesque: Heroes of Olympus
Jordan Hennessy: The Dreamer Trilogy (Call Down the Hawk, Mister Impossible, Greywaren) Hennessy, Jordan, June, Madox, Farrah, Alba, Brooklyn, Jay, Octavia, Trinity
Jam: Pet
Jane McKeene: (Dread Nation, Deathless Divide) Katherine Deveraux, Big Sue, Lily Keats, Ida, Callie, Auntie Aggie, Jane Mama
Juniper Andromeda: Crescent City
Imabelle:
Karina: (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, A Psalm of Storms and Silence) Bahia Alahari
Keisha Taylor: Alice Isn't Dead
Lady Death: The Hanged Man | Lady Fire: Graceling | Lucy Pevensie: The Chronicles of Narnia (Nobody is Black in the movies, but there are FCs on the page.
Maia Roberts: The Mortal Instruments, The Shadowhunters Chronicles
Meg Murray: A Wrinkle in Time (One day, I absolutely will separate books & movies)
Melanie: The Girl with All the Gifts
The Memory Librarian: TBA
Merrick Mayfair: The Vampire Chronicles, The Mayfair Witches, Merrick
Missandei: Game of Thrones (There are multiple books. I am not a reader of them) Nettles, Daenerys Targaryen, Laena Velaryon, Baela Targaryen, Rhaena Targaryen
Nasuada: Eragon | Natasha Kingsley (The Sun is Also a Star) | Nehemia Ytger: Throne of Glass (There are multiple books. I am not a reader of them)
Noor
Onyesonwu Ubaid-Ogundimu: Who Fears Death
Rae Sloane: (Star Wars) Korr Sella, Ciena Ree
Red Riding Hood:
Rue: The Hunger Games
Rue Jelani Akintola: Wings of Ebony
Serwa Boateng: Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting
Sierra Santiago: The Shadowshaper Cypher (Shadowshaper, Shadowhouse Fall, Shadowshaper Legacy) Trejean "Tee," Izzy
Simidele: Of Mermaids and Orisa (Skin of the Sea, Soul of the Deep)
Simmaa Aldajah: The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats & Piracy
Sophia Grimmins: (Cinderella is Dead) Constance, Cinderella (Until further notice, the all Cinderellas tag will be used for the CID Cinderella tag. Hopefully, I can attach a specific CID Cinderella in the future), Erin, Liv, Amina
