fyeahsuperheroes:

professorthorgi:

This Wednesday, Marvel comics released All New Marvel Now #1 which featured the first super hero appearance of Kamala Khan, the new Ms Marvel who will be getting her own series next month. She is the first female Muslim character to receive her own series from either of the big companies, and because of this some people are saying this is all a stunt, that this is just something Marvel is doing to get attention. And you can say that all you want, but today two Muslim women who had never come into my store before came in and asked for the new book with Ms Marvel in it. We gave it to them and they started flipping through it and they both had the biggest smiles you could imagine on their faces. In fact I would describe both of them as being “giddy” even. So you can say its a stunt all you want, but end of the day thanks to the new Ms Marvel, those two ladies now have a super hero that they’re excited about, and that’s pretty awesome. 

REPRESENTATION MATTERS

It really, really does.

It’s that feeling you get when you’re a young girl playing video games where you have to save the princess always or the entire cast of fighters is men… then suddenly Chun-Li is there in the roster.

It’s that feeling you get when you’re a young, black girl and you see a black lady shopping in a mall in the cartoon that looks cool and suddenly she transforms into Storm.

It’s that feeling of being the overweight kid but seeing women like Queen Latifah, plus sized, female rapper, actress, not seen as lazy or pathetic , but actually successful and beautiful.    

It’s that feeling you get when you flip through a comic or watch a cartoon or anime or movie or whatever and a boy kisses a boy, or a girl kisses a girl, and it’s o.k.  It’s quite all right.  It’s fine.

It’s being thirty and cosplaying Tiana, and walking past the little black girl with her dad, and she stops and stares up at you.  And you smile and you kneel down and you hug her.  And her dad smiles at you.

Representation matters  :)