What’s Missing in the Lilo & Stitch Posters? A Face and a Deeper Concern
Where is Lilo's face? Disney marketing sends a chilling signal: that even in 2025, an alien is more palatable and marketable than a brown girl.

Longing for acceptance, a neurodivergent boy taunts the boundaries of his best friend: his brother.
Where is Lilo's face? Disney marketing sends a chilling signal: that even in 2025, an alien is more palatable and marketable than a brown girl.
A direct fall into the white savior narrative
“It's not ghosts. It's not supernatural. It's... It's America. And it's everywhere.”
A decade since it aired, Shameless (U.S.) has always stuck to its guns (and baseball bats) about character diversity.
“I’m always interested in exploring female fantasy, and the sexy witch is a loaded archetype that is simultaneously about men’s fears and fantasies about women, and women’s feelings of empowerment and agency. So whereas we are used to seeing the sexy witch or the femme fatale from the outside, I wanted to explore her from the inside.” - Anna Biller, on why she made The Love Witch
Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.