No one has difficulty drawing folks with purple hair and yellow eyes or Elves and Dwarves and Ents but insert a show with POC characters and children need basic tutorials on color and shading.

racebending:

Avatar and Korra: An Exploration of Whitewashing and Empowerment

feminspire:

When I first saw Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA) on Nickelodeon, the first thing I thought was, “whoa…”

That was because the main character, Aang, had a skin colour that is similar to mine. Aang was not a stereotypical Asian. He doesn’t wear glasses or have tiny eyes. He has big eyes, like mine. That “whoa…” was one of amazement — because for once there was a character and a whole cartoon series that represents people of my skin colour and those darker than mine! Not only did the cartoon have representation I could identify with, but it is also a great series where the characters are not based on stereotypes.

But of course, awesome things can be destroyed, and racial identities can be robbed very easily…

Read the article on Feminspire

Only the Avatar can master all four elements.

willynillylily:

“Festivities”, day 6 of Korrasami Week.   korra and asami wear a qipao and yukata respectively to a lantern festival.  

noxil:

Headcanon; Korra’s got some serious water tribe tattoos she’s hiding underneath her shirt.

Maybe she should take it off for Asami to see.