The crows she feeds obviously have their own little lives. They go about their business, and they spot *pretty thing* or /unique thing/ in question. What gets me is that the *first* thing on their minds as recipient of this thing is the little girl that feeds them.

BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE

These birds are not just taking food and leaving shinies. These birds are watching over this family now. Their lives have become involved. These crows are keeping track of this girl and her mother even when they are out of the yard. How do we know?

One of them is a photographer, and one day while she was photographing some stuff on a bridge, she dropped her camera’s lenscap over the edge. There was no way she could get it back, so she left it. When she got home, the lenscap was sitting on the edge of one of the feeding stations, waiting for her.

The girls never apologized or grew from their prejudices and white moderate apologism, and Cris even ended up being right about hers (re: Dani and Amira). Patri ans Ester were also right about Dani and never were told about themselves onscreen, just Dani playing it off as them being at “Muslim 101.” Dani made an Islamophobic “joke” that was never discussed. Las Labass existed to talk about key issues in the beginning of the season that never came to fruition (including Amira’s 5 second struggle over the hijab). The school just let students vandalize the banner and take Amira’s speech and that was apparently the end of it. Dilan mentioned being treated as an Other once. We never got a conclusion to Mama Naybet and her job

The season began with Amira’s strong sense of justice around racism and Islamophobia and even delved into how she personally has gone through various stages of combating discrimination. It introduced a beautiful idea of anti-integration as survival and complicated a lot of narratives of struggle and choice. But then... did nothing! There was no resolution to any of the racism or Islamophobia Amira faced. It was like the show presented it just to say “this happens 🤷🏽‍♀️ [shrugging girl emoji] and what about it?” There was nothing uplifting or justice-oriented about it. Hell, as much as i loathe that shit, there wasn’t even white centrist multiculturalism propaganda in there a la the other Skams!

What kind of message is this supposed to send to young Muslim women and/or young women of color? That microaggressions are a part of every day life and you just learn to live with it? That even when you believe in justice the world will best it out of you? That it’s not that bad when it’s coming from your white friends and colleagues? That you can’t change the status quo so don’t even try? What was the REASON?