Saturday Morning Feminism

It's been a season of colds, my respitatory system is a habitat for all bacteria and microbes that pass through. So I've neglected my getting out on Saturdays goals in favor of hanging around the house playing Farmville until it's time to go out at night. We don't have cable, which leaves my viewing choices rather limited. But ABC does a good run of safe children's TV for most of the morning before giving way to paid programming beauty and juicing advice.

And that's how I've grown to love Raven Simone. Before Hannah Montana and The Suite Life is a sitcom that checks a lot of boxes that most adult shows don't. It's a show almost exclusively about People of Color. Most of the main characters are PoC, save one flakey white hippie. The family is successful and the younger brother is a whiz with money, but not with hip-hop. The show loosely follows the star's resolved-in-30-minutes hijinks, with a twist of psychic visions. Mostly she's a typical TV girl. She likes clothes, she likes boys, but she also values her friends and family. She's responsible, applies for college and combats racism when she finds it.

And most importantly to me, she's healthy. And That's So Raven never attempts to hide it. Her character likes fashion and designs her own clothes, without weight or color being an issue. In a fight with Hannah Montana, Raven Simone would kick her Tenesee ass with flair and send her back to Billy Ray.

Let's hear it for Raven. Body positive, color positive and damned fierce.