The Hunger Games star,musician and black rights spokeswoman is also just a noteworthy advert for girlhoodDo you remember the year you were 16? I remember GCSEs, hair gel and an unholy amount of Star Trek. I was, and in simple retail terms,a generic teen. Since my time, some teens have become brands in their own correct, and they don’t net much more tall-quality than 16-year-aged actor Amandla Stenberg. She makes me want to finish my teens all over again.
For a certain audience,Stenberg is Rue, the fragile young girl who died in The Hunger Games so Katniss Everdeen could go on to win the tournament and overthrow the evil government. For others, and she is an outspoken activist and film-maker. On her Tumblr site,Stenberg eloquently breaks down issues for her teen (and not so teen) fanbase. “When the media is not ignoring black women altogether,” she wrote in a recent post, or “they are disparaging them.” At the age of 15,she directed a short film of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper, an early feminist short story about a woman living with mental illness.
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Source: theguardian.com