As your resident #blerd: In light of #stormgate and err body being stressed ab the Beyoncé thing (as if we ever believed marvel would fail us like this) let’s have an actual conversation about the ways @Marvel HAS failed Storm
Storm, Ororo Munroe, the wind rider, the hadari yao, once queen regent of Wakanda, once goddess, once pickpocket is a beautiful Black AFRICAN woman with the ability to manipulate the weather (and I s2g it she is not actually acted by an African the whole MCU can pull up)
An omega level mutant, she is the one of the most powerful mutants alive. A BADT👏🏿 gyaldem. We see her all the time. She shows up in tons of books. She was headmistress of the Xavier institute. She’s a fan favorite BUT
She’s never given the characterization she deserves and this mostly has to do with the fact that she’s never written by a Black person and so she’s always portrayed through the same white/non-black lens that does her dirty. Let me explain.
For context: I fell in love with Storm from the 90s x-men cartoon where she was portrayed by an over exaggerated African spiritual trope (she was still STUNTIN in the all white tho) and while she’d had some punk energy prior to that was really all we had until...
She was (arguably pushed into being) married to Black Panther (tho we weren’t mad about it) and then her whole personality was about being a queen. And she IS, let’s be clear, a KWEEN but that’s not all she is
The portrayal of Storm as an African Goddess Queen is exhausting because you can tell that the writers have never spent time with Africans... as if she can’t be those things and also have PERSONALITY as a BLACK WOMAN?!?!
I wanna see Storm shaking her booty in the mirror through her mumu, with Bantu knots in her hair, drinking Ugandan Waragi, listening to Burna Boy (suggested to her by Gentle & Oya) with Jean Grey in her room vibing along pretending she know the words.
I wanna see Storm talk to Okoye ab these triflin ass mzungus she has to deal with regularly in the x-house because she believes in doing good and unfortunately that involves dealing with Scott Summers’ fragile white male ego
I wanna see Storm crack jokes with Bishop about why he tryna save time knowing damn well Black people ain’t been safe in not one of them timelines 😂 yfm? Like Storm deserves be treated like her own person.
Y’all got Logan’s freely killing always having unsettling relationships with young females ass on eight trillion different books while Storm THE BADDEST BITCH no trina got like 3 solos and only one that isn’t centered around T’Challa
Who are Storm’s chargies? Which of the X-Kids pull up in Auntie Ro’s office and sit on the couch to for two hours while she typing reports just because?? Why Ororo ain’t going on no side missions with Misty Knight???
Anyway no one asked for this but when my bb #Storm shows up in #BlackPanther2 she better be treated with the respect that she deserves AND GIVE HER HER OWN DAMN MOVIE AFTERWARDS she has the material and the capacity we deserve better @Marvel
And @Marvel @JoeQuesada I’m free and available for consulting if needed. I got mental health degrees, a minor in creative writing, I’m Black and African, and I read a lot of comics so basically I’m overqualified 🙃🥴
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