Girlfriends (2003).

This is painfully hilarious. Amazon really said, well we can’t cancel another without enraging the sapphics but maybe if we just give them a small handful of crumbs? FOUR 💀

I’m tired of this shlt. Both this and The Wilds was a huge loss, due to the queer & BIPOC characters we were given only for them to be taken away.

Roxie Albertha Roker (August 28, 1929 – December 2, 1995) was an American actress who portrayed Helen Willis on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons (1975–1985), half of the first interracial couple to be shown on regular prime time television.[1] Roker is the mother of rock musician Lenny Kravitz and paternal grandmother of actress Zoë Kravitz.

‘ABBOTT ELEMENTARY’ has been renewed for a 4th season!

How Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Centers Black Girls

Some Excerpts:

Stories can be about bigotry and specifically racism, but that's not a good thing when the central intention is to comfort or prioritize those least affected by it. Moon Girl is a breath of fresh air because its writing makes its intentions clear in how it doesn't prioritize needing to disarm or comfort white viewers.

This is why I wish discussions about representation would go beyond just naming characters that exist in the media space and go more into how the work uses their presence in the story for its commentary and what audience it's designed to appeal to.

Shows like Moon Girl are a big part of why I dislike the term "redemption arc" and the discourse surrounding it because it dances over the larger picture that many animated series have turned to using a romanticized portrayal of colonial, often but not always white supremacist violence as a story hook but the conversation ends up asking the wrong questions.

Redemption arc discourse often fails to discuss how the central characters it revolves around all are direct perpetrators of colonial violence only to flip around and minimize the severity of the real-world implications if they can just buddy up with people they've had a hand in harming. Centralizing that to just "does so and so deserve forgiveness" without questioning the broader issue of how they're used to comfort mostly white audiences who in the real world are mostly supporters of the types of harm often depicted in these shows feels incomplete to me.

There's a difference between making  a story about racism and making a story about racism that is made to comfort white viewers--even when they have a non-white protagonist because we come back to the central question: who is your intended audience?

There's a great foreshadowing scene where Mimi and Lunella are playing a game of chess.

Mimi's strategy revolves around relying on her queen to take care of all the pieces, made even more on the nose by the fact that she's playing with the Black chess pieces and trying to carry the game with the Black queen, the piece taped together and worn from overuse. The queen is the strongest piece in the game--strong but not invulnerable and she ultimately loses to Lunella who points out that she needs to have other pieces do the work to support alongside the queen. It's not that Mimi is a bad player, but they use the chess scene to foreshadow how she as a Black woman attempts to shoulder these huge burdens like fighting by herself.

S3E13 The Story of Gangstalicious

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UPN Monday & Friday Nights (2002).

Happy 2/27

Cast of Harlem Season 2 at the 2023 SCAD TVfest

Redd Foxx and the beautiful Lynn Hamilton

Family Matters (s5 e3) ♡