I’ve been looking forward to Marvel’s Black Panther for a few years now, but I didn’t think I’d enjoy it as much as I did. Race is never something I’ve properly talked about in my work before, while it's always been something I’ve been very aware of.
Being mixed race it's weird sometimes to think where you fit in, as I grew up with very few other black kids in my vicinity, I mainly spent time at gigs and parties where I would be the only one there. (Not a great many black teenagers are going to gigs for bands like The Cribs and Paramore). Not saying that this is necessarily a bad thing, it's just something that you become very aware of. In music, books and film I’ve done a lot of research into black history and culture, especially in America.I feel like this last leg of the course should be an opportunity to really say something in response to these feelings and thoughts.
Watching Black Panther in the cinema was a unique experience for me, someone that is there for the midnight release of most of these nerd films, Star Wars etc. So seeing a whole new demographic being opened up to these films in the audience for Black Panther just felt like a really special experience. It's proof that these stories are able to access anyone from anywhere, in the same way that a bullied child finds solace in the heroics of Spider-Man, a young black child can now see himself in characters brought into the mainstream like Black Panther.
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