Why "The Watermelon Woman" is Just as Powerful 30 Years Later
This movie will always resonate with queer people, for as long as queer people exist.

This movie will always resonate with queer people, for as long as queer people exist.
Dracula evolved from a person to a monster and then from a monster to a person.
But what many do not know is that in 2019, a Wonder Woman film was released that had all of the positive qualities of WW84, and remedied many of the negative ones. Wonder Woman: Bloodlines, a direct-to-video animated movie in the DC Animated Movie Universe, perfectly balances the campiness and seriousness of the character.
By undermining the appeal and credibility of black characters, the show compromises the very idea of diversity and representation it sets to promote.
Gritty and bleak are the best words to describe this film. There’s nothing happy about it.