Yeah, o didn’t start watching GoT until episode 8 of season 5. Then I watched all of them after that ,and went back to watch a few of the earlier ones. But until that season I more or less ignored it except for recaps on The Root, which I thought were more entertaining than the actual show.

I’ve always been able to watch and geek out about fantasy and SciFi shows without prominent characters of color but I really was starving to see people who look like me in the genre, and that’s one of the reasons I started the blog where that catchphrase came from. I wanted to talk about and celebrate black characters, specifically black women in the fantasy, SciFi, and horror genres. I think Black Panther was one of the greatest feats of representation I’ve ever watched in the genre, and it brought me and my mom closer together in our admiration of the movie and characters. My mom became a total geekgirl, she was so happy!

I don’t think the people who criticize these movies they way they do understand what it feels like to watch them. They’re only ever capable of thinking about how they feel about something and never how stuff affects other people at all. They’re so utterly self involved, while i work to understand why someone would argue against something that makes other people so easily pleased!

I remember a video that came out when the BP movie was released of a black guy standing next to one of the BP posters at the movie theater, and he said to the camera, “Wow! This must be how white people feel all the time?” And that statement struck me really hard because I don’t think they do. I think they take it for granted and feel entitled to movies about them, for them, and by them. It is only now that they have less of the pie ths they’re beginning to realize even a tiny smidgen of what we all felt when we not represented.