#piperweek

[image description: a digital drawing of piper mclean, an indigenous teenager with brown skin and long, dark hair pulled into two braids. she is posing on a stool, wearing a yellow sweatshirt under a green and white striped button-down with high-waisted jeans. she is smiling gently in front of a pink background.]

[Image Description: A digital drawing of Drew Tanaka and Piper McLean. Piper is on the left and is making two peace signs in front of her face. Drew is on the right and is making one peace sign in front of her. Both girls are in matching outfits of a pink shirt and jeans. Piper is a Cherokee teenager with brown skin, dark brown hair, and brown eyes, and is wearing gold earrings. Drew is a Japanese-American teenager with light skin, black hair, and black eyes. Drew has green nail polish and pink lipgloss on and Piper has light blue nail polish on. The background is a light green gradiant.] 

[Image Description: Three girls are sitting on a beach. On the left is Valentina Diaz, an Afrolatina teen with brown skin, dark brown hair held back in a pink bandanna, pink nail polish, silver hoop earrings, three rings on her hand, and wearing her camp necklace with three beads. She is wearing a swimsuit with the ace flag on it. In the center is Piper McLean, a Cherokee teenager with dark brown hair, brown skin, and wearing sunglasses. She is wearing a swimsuit with a lesbian flag on it and pink bottoms. Her hair is in one long braid and she is wearing her camp necklace with one bead. On the right is Lou Ellen Blackstone, a Menominee teenager. She has light brown skin, brown eyes, and dark brown hair. She is wearing sunglasses and her camp necklace, which has two beads. She is wearing a swimsuit in which the top has the trans flag and the bottom has the bi flag. All three girls have various scars. Valentina is sitting on an ace flag towel while Lou Ellen is sitting on a towel with the Philadelphia rainbow flag design. Behind them is sand and the edge of the water with a stone visible.] 

[Image Description: Two teenage girls are blowing bubbles with a multicolored background. On the left is Katie Gardner, a Black teenager with thin havana twists pulled back into a bun. She is wearing a light reddish-pink shirt that reads ‘magic’ and pastel blue jeans. She has a blue and green bracelet, green necklace, raindrop earrings, dark pink sunglasses, and a necklace that reads ‘love’. She has a backpack on. On the right is Piper McLean, a Cherokee teenager with long dark hair and brown skin. She is wearing a pink and gray striped shirt and jeans.]

[ID: Piper McLean, a Cherokee teenager, is center in the image, half-turned to the viewer. The background is black with a red YouTube symbol and white text that has a thumbs up emoji, a hashtag reading #PiperMcLean, a hashtag reading #DANCE, and text at the top saying ‘subscribe!’ as well as a gold bell that says ‘hit that bell’. Piper has brown skin, dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, and is is wearing a green tank top and blue jeans. Her hair is long and loose and goes to her mid-back.] 

[ID: Three children are posing for a picture in a green background. In the middle, being held by the oldest, is baby Piper McLean. She is a Cherokee child with brown skin, dark brown eyes, and dark brown hair. She is wearing an orange shirt and pink shorts. Holding her is her oldest cousin Levi, a Cherokee boy with medium length brown hair, brown skin, and dark brown eyes. He is wearing a light green shirt and gray shorts. Standing and leaning on Levi is one of her older cousins, Nathanael, a Cherokee child with medium dark brown skin, very dark brown hair, and brown eyes. He is wearing a blue shirt with a gray collar. Both boys are smiling while Piper has her mouth open as if she’s talking.]

[image description: an eight-picture moodboard for Piper McLean from the Heroes of Olympus saga. on the top row, the left image is a black-on-white typography saying “rebels with a cause”, and the right image depicts a young woman with black hair in braids, brown skin and a yellow hoodie standing against a blue background; on the middle row, the left image is a white-on-yellow typography saying “girls like girls like boys do, nothing new”, the center image is of Native actress Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs wearing a white t-shirt with a print spelling “Indigenous”, and the right image is a closeup of a rainbow t-shirt with a gold double venus necklace pendant; on the bottom row, the left picture is a statue of the Venus de Milo with the beach in the background, and the right picture is a black-on-white single-line doodle of two girls kissing. end description]