{"id":4595,"date":"2017-06-10T08:43:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T07:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/161650623878"},"modified":"2017-06-10T08:43:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T07:43:52","slug":"black-panther-teaser-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2017\/06\/black-panther-teaser-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Panther Teaser Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=dxWvtMOGAhw\">Black Panther Teaser Trailer<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>*screams*<\/p>\n<p>Black people front &#038; centre in a science fiction movie? \u00a0I\u2019ll have some of that!<\/p>\n<p>This reaction vid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QN-WCHacRgI\" >https:\/\/youtu.be\/QN-WCHacRgI<\/a>\u00a0is pretty much my reaction too. \u00a0His best comment,\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s like Africa in space!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, representation matters! \u00a0Whether in small everyday things or in big flashy stuff that everyone except you gets to fully enjoy. \u00a0Sci-fi and fantasy has the tendency to be very, very white &#8211; whether the media or the fandom. \u00a0It\u2019s easy to feel alienated when I go to conventions and am the only black person in the room. \u00a0The usual state of black people in scifi is like this: <a href=\"http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/141781152918\/i-wrote-the-poem-below-for-mancunicon-the-uk\" >http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/141781152918\/i-wrote-the-poem-below-for-mancunicon-the-uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This trailer makes me happy. \u00a0And it makes me especially happy that it features black people and it\u2019s NOT IN AMERICA. \u00a0I get thoroughly sick that if I ever see Black people in anything visual, it\u2019s always in the U.S. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">*screams some more*<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=dxWvtMOGAhw\">Black Panther Teaser Trailer<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>*screams*<\/p>\n<p>Black people front &amp; centre in a science fiction movie? &nbsp;I&rsquo;ll have some of that!<\/p>\n<p>This reaction vid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QN-WCHacRgI\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/QN-WCHacRgI<\/a>&nbsp;is pretty much my reaction too. &nbsp;His best comment,&nbsp;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s like Africa in space!&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But seriously, representation matters! &nbsp;Whether in small everyday things or in big flashy stuff that everyone except you gets to fully enjoy. &nbsp;Sci-fi and fantasy has the tendency to be very, very white &#8211; whether the media or the fandom. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s easy to feel alienated when I go to conventions and am the only black person in the room. &nbsp;The usual state of black people in scifi is like this: <a href=\"http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/141781152918\/i-wrote-the-poem-below-for-mancunicon-the-uk\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/141781152918\/i-wrote-the-poem-below-for-mancunicon-the-uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This trailer makes me happy. &nbsp;And it makes me especially happy that it features black people and it&rsquo;s NOT IN AMERICA. &nbsp;I get thoroughly sick that if I ever see Black people in anything visual, it&rsquo;s always in the U.S. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span>*screams some more*<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[547,545,416,546,489,450],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afrofuturism","category-black-panther","category-black-people","category-movies","category-sci-fi-fantasy","category-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4708,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions\/4708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}