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Television shows and movies aren’t as male white washed as they used to be. It’s getting better, but at a very slow rate. We are finally getting a black superhero movie Black Panther. Wonder Woman has been crushing the summer box office and so has Girls Trip. Insecure is one of HBO’s rising shows. There’s long running Jane The Virgin. Then we have Netflix’s Dear White People, Chewing Gum and Luke Cage. The list really does go on and on.
Netflix launched a representation campaign called #FirstTimeISawMe to show why representation matters. Representation is the display of different cultures and people. Some people don’t think representation is important on screen, but it actually has a huge impact on viewers. Representation in the media lets people of color’s cultures be accurately portrayed, instead of being white washed. Like Asian characters getting played by white people in movies like The Great Wall or cisgendered men playing trans women like in The Danish Girl.
So Netflix sat down with the cast of Dear White People and let them share the moment they finally saw themselves accurately represented and what representation means to them.
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Representation lets the people of that community control the narrative surrounding them and that’s important. Representation breaks stereotypes and lets actors not be type casted. Their answers are inspiring and show why representation truly does matter.
