Halloween Costumes Celebrating The Women Of Colour In Pop Culture

Pop culture is a vast and ever expanding landscape. But from viral memes and GIFs to the characters that we let into our homes every week via television, women of colour have always been around been around to inspire and slay. They have been the best parts of our favourite movies and the innovator of our favourite songs. They are icons, both living and deceased, and they are permanently ingrained in our memories.

If you ask me, there is never a wrong time to celebrate women of colour. But it’s true that Halloween presents a unique opportunity to honor these women by looking exactly like them. Here are a few ideas to get you started. And just to stay on the safe side, I would like to remind everyone that yellow/brown/Blackface are never ok. It really can’t be said enough.