#DiversifyAgentCarter: A Tweet Roundup

A round-up of the tweets from the #DiversifyAgentCarter hashtag.

Swapna Krishna May 12, 2015

Swapna Krishna

Staff Writer

Swapna is the Comics Editor at Book Riot. She's a Space Columnist for Paste Magazine and writes for Syfy Wire—Fangrrls, Tor.com, Bustle, and other sites. She co-hosts a podcast called Desi Geek Girls. You can find her incessant ramblings on Twitter at @skrishna. She lives outside Philadelphia.

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Anyone who’s regularly on social media, and Twitter specifically, knows that it can be an ugly place. Trolls, hate speech, and getting into arguments with people you don’t even know and will never meet can suck the joy out of Twitter. But sometimes the community can come together and create something awesome, and that happened last week. With the VERY WELCOME news that Agent Carter had received a season 2 pickup, Mikki Kendall (who has a kick-ass essay in the back of Bitch Planet #4, if you haven’t read it yet) sent out a simple tweet calling for more diversity in the show.

https://twitter.com/Karnythia/status/596713120988569601

And oh boy, did Twitter respond. In the best way possible. These are just a few of the amazing tweets that came from the hashtag #DiversifyAgentCarter. Check out the full list of tweets, if you have a sec!

https://twitter.com/saladinahmed/status/596848858711351297

https://twitter.com/brettwhite/status/596816852506025984

https://twitter.com/ubeempress/status/596755773016780800

https://twitter.com/tinytempest/status/596807125705293824

Agent Carter at its core is about awesome people being overlooked. So a black agent (black female, even) fits. #DiversifyAgentCarter

— Justin Carter (@GigawattConduit) May 8, 2015

"A Woman and Her Dog in Harlem New York, 1943." #DiversifyAgentCarter pic.twitter.com/tBbIYZrkra

— Red Wedge Magazine (@RedWedgeMag) May 8, 2015

https://twitter.com/Karnythia/status/596714077252034561

#DiversifyAgentCarter because the lengths people will go to to whitewash and justify whitewashing a fictional universe are considerable.

— Alina (@LJmysticowl) May 11, 2015

Carmen Contreras-Bozak was the 1st Latina to serve in WAAC & in the first unit to go overseas #DiversifyAgentCarter pic.twitter.com/vbOcnSnh39

— Cielo (@ohsweetgoodness) May 11, 2015

#DiversifyAgentCarter People only treat minorities like a recent invention because period pieces often act like they are. Buck that trend!

— Jon Erik (@HonestlyJon) May 8, 2015

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