“Awkward Black Girl”

If you look at films and TV over the years, the words “awkward black girl” don’t exist. Within the past ten years, almost every channel has exculsively portrayed black women as loud, strong, confident, queens with a whole lot of sass. Now don’t get me wrong, black girl magic shines bright. But what the media continually fails to see is that our magic shines into all realms of personality, not just one . This one is for my quirky black queens who haven’t always seem themselves in the big screen, but thanks to black creators, are slowly starting to.

The video above was posted by Youtuber amandamaryanna and discusses tropes black women have been subjected to in the media for generations, and the emerging roles in films and TV that are starting to paint black girls in a new and more diversifiying light. There are references to offensive stereotypes and caricatures, so please be mindful.

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