Quotes by fans and scholars on the need to shine a light on the BIPOC fan experience.
“Sometimes fandom is like watching a movie with a room full of white people – when someone does something kinda shady and racist, you want to lean over and be like ‘did this motherfucker just really,’ but then you realize you’re the only black person there so you have to weigh whether or not you’re in the mood for bullshit, because that’s what you’ll get by bringing this up with white people.” – “A Search for Black Fandom” Rude Girl Blog
“You’d think it would have made me happy to see somebody who looked like me in my favorite entertainment medium, but it was the opposite. Every time I saw someone in an anime who was even somewhat similar to me or any of the other Latinx I knew, I cringed. They weren’t whole characters. They weren’t even slightly likable. Instead, those characters highlighted people like me as a caricature. It was painful that I had to see that on television, in a lot of Hollywood movies, and now in anime, too.”
– from “My road to finding better Latinx representation in anime” By: Angely Mercado
“I guess I don’t really expect to see myself represented in anime, because the shows I’ve watched over the years have so rarely included Black characters. So when I do see a Black character I’m instantly drawn to them. This might be partly why I grew to love Naruto so much, because it has quite a few respectfully drawn black and brown characters. Representation is incredibly important to me, but with anime, it’s complicated by the fact that I have such low expectations for Black representation. I don’t expect it, and I try to ignore the bad examples, because I don’t want it to affect my enjoyment of the genre. But I think it has, to a certain degree.”--Joshua Toussaint-Strauss in “How Black Fans and Creators are Redefining Anime” by Edward Hartley
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