Southern gothic with Black folks is my favorite genre.
...But unfortunately, we don't delve into it enough because "the new Blacks" have been duped into thinking its ~torture porn~ instead of reflections of survival we desperately need to preserve and learn from.
you not black first. or a woman first. you’re a black woman. that’s it. your experience with misogyny is unique because of racism. your experience with racism is different because you’re a woman. the term ‘intersectionality’ exists because our experience is so unique.
Nija Battle’s fur designs basically ruled the 90’s + 2000s — One of her most recognizable designs was the fur worn by Jeanette Chavez in the Excuse Me Miss video
She’s done customs for Naomi, Iman, Mary, Lil Kim + the list goes on
This is what the original Cheetah Girls looked like btw… you are not wrong for feeling like it’s been white washed. Not even Dorinda was white, she was Japanese and AA and even the Hispanic characters were Afro-Latina. Disney IS playing in our faces