evergreenring:

_{GloZell shows why cultural representation is so important (x)}

No joke, when I cosplayed Tiana at Daishocon last year, I wander over towards the waterpark area full of kids and got a lot of attention, but I’ll never forget the little black girl who smiled up at me and tugged on her dad’s arm.

But it’s not just her face I remember, but her dad’s face.  He had this look of, “Thank you so much for being here,” and he let me walk over and hug his daughter.  It was just this moment of, “Finally, she’s got a princess she can look at.”  And I love Disney and I love the princesses and I wholeheartedly believe that you can cosplay whoever you want, but there’s something about that moment of, “Wow there’s someone who looks like me, finally, in this lineup of princesses, there’s a princess like me after all these years." 

It’s quite nice  <3