Hidden Figures Reminds Us That Black Women Are Important, Period.

The way representation should work is that you represent all aspects of a group. This should include successes beyond surviving the master’s whip or serving the well-dressed white lady. There are plenty of black women who are successful, and who’ve gained that success through their own merits, not after a cheating husband or, in the worst-case scenario, a murdered one. There are plenty of black women whose successes are shoved to the side, their stories untold, in favor of the same repeated narrative of the full-figured house servant or the wife of a man who is leading a movement. We deserve to have our successes highlighted. We deserve our time to shine because of our own magic. It’s about time those figures stopped being hidden, because they’re important. Period.