It came about when I was making the friendship book zine. I was trying to include characters of colour in the zine.
I was already more than aware that the pop culture I love, from music to books to film is heavily white and features little if any characters/people of colour.
The only one I could come up with was Dionne from Clueless and what makes this character extra special is she isn't black for a reason, she JUST IS.
Whenever I do come across POC in films/books?TV that I really like, they are so often black for a reason, it forms part of a story.
So in short I wonder what would happen if some of my favourite fictional characters just happened to be black, like for no reason whatsoever, it didn't add anything to the story, that's just what they were!
This is 'What, is she black now?'
This could easily just be seen is me making felt images of myself dressing up as these characters (I have dressed as all three)
PS more exciting things coming soon!!
