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Dumplin’ told the world that the fat girl could be the beauty queen, the worthy love interest, and the confident star of the show.

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No one likes to feel invisible. LGBTQ representation in media helps alleviate years of silence and invisibility in the community, while also teaching those outside the community that LGBTQ people exist and are as valued as anyone else.

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Vogue is certainly making a name for itself.

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After the success of Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda and its subsequent movie, Love, Simon, author Becky Albertalli decided a spinoff was absolutely necessary. And thank god, because she produced a Simon sequel the LGBT community — and, honestly, everyone — deserved.

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The Bachelor had a conversation on race, but not the one it should have had.

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The fact of the matter is Black girls deserve to see themselves as magical, intelligent, and central in their own stories.

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I want to see open minds and open hearts.

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The best part of all this? That how we should start “seeing” women is not for what they look like– but what they do.

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Part of the goal of a romantic comedy is to make the audience imagine that this story could happen to them. They could find the love of their life just around the next corner — watch out, you’re going to bang into that unusually handsome man and spill coffee all over him!