A viral X thread recently analyzed casting announcements in a slew of new YA series — and noticed Black girls are conspicuously absent.
In this reported op-ed, writer Ayan Artan argues that young adult shows and movies aren’t doing enough to share the stories of Black girls and talks to social media creators about young Black women representation in Hollywood. On August 26, news broke that actresses Maddie Ziegler and Mean Girls star Avantika had been cast in Ballerina Overdrive, a young adult action film that follows a troupe of ballerinas attempting to escape a remote inn after their bus breaks down en route to a competition.
“The white experience has become the default across the board — and audiences have come to expect that too — to the point where any deviation feels like a betrayal. There’s also a question of whether white audiences can “relate” to characters that don’t share their lived experience — but that is just a result of years of catering to one demographic. Now we’re stuck in a cycle that may take years, decades, even, to overwrite.
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