Things We Saw Today: It’s Black History Month — So It’s Time For #29DaysOfBlackCosplay!

It’s February, which means Black History Month, which means that #29DaysOfBlackCosplay begins today — and already the tag has begun to fill with amazing costumes. Go forth and peruse the skills on display! (via @BlackGirlNerds)

• This “Fight Like A Girl” gif moves at headache-inducing levels of speed, so I won’t embed it here, but it definitely features an impressive roster of women warriors in genre fiction! See if you can spot your favs as they speed by.
• This enterprising Disneyland fan created an entire line of candles scented according to rides (and foods) at the theme park, from Belle’s Library to the Black Pearl. (via Boing Boing)

• Photographer Christian Sampson has put out a series of photos exploring mental illness; above, that’s his “Anxiety” photograph. “These were touchy subjects so I did rigorous research to make sure I depicted it accurately,” he told HuffPo.
• Harlem’s Ali Forney Center, an organization that provides housing for homeless LGBTQ+ youth, has begun a crowd-funding campaign to buy a local church that was once infamous for broadcasting homophobic sentiments. (via The Daily Dot)
• Mattel’s American Girl dolls will receive four live-action story adaptations via Amazon Studios this year. (via EW)

What’d you all find out there today?

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Maddy Myers, journalist and arts critic, has written for the Boston Phoenix, Paste Magazine, MIT Technology Review, and tons more. She is a host on a videogame podcast called Isometric (relay.fm/isometric), and she plays the keytar in a band called the Robot Knights (robotknights.com).

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