Lion King’ leaks: Early reactions rave about visuals, voice actors, The NY Post

“The uncanny valley for animals took me out too many times. But it’s the Lion King so it’s always great,” admitted Constance Gibbs, writer at Time for Kids.

Jon Favreau ‘Star Wars’ News on International Women’s Day Gets Blowback, The Hollywood Reporter

“I hope the Favreau hires inclusively,” tweeted Constance Gibbs, writer for Black Girl Nerds. “I don’t even trust D&D from GoT to hire other white women, so they’re out. I just… I wanted better for this franchise that women of color love and support with equal measure.”
She continued, “You’re either ignoring us or prioritizing these white dudes. Both are bad looks. Do better, Star Wars. Let women of color be in charge of major stories in the franchise, especially because I would trust them more to hire WoC/diverse directors, writers, producers.”

Doctor Who Season 11 Marks a New Era — and It’s Been a Long Time Coming, TV Guide

“Unlike the whole ‘jumping the shark’ idea, where it’s like, ‘All right, once you’ve jumped the shark, nothing after that is good,’ it’s different with Doctor Who. With another show, you might think, ‘Oh, it’s not going to recover from this problem.’ But Doctor Who will do something new, and you’re into it again,” says Constance Gibbs, a pop-culture writer and critic and the host of the TARBIS podcast (Time and Relative Blackness in Space).

Doctor Who Season 11 Is Fixing Tired Formula Problems, ScreenRant

As Constance Gibbs observed in a powerful (and heart-wrenchingly personal) article on Polygon, the show didn’t get its first black companion – the bumbling Mickey Smith – until 2005.

‘Too touchy-feely’? Our panel on Jodie Whittaker’s first series of Doctor Who, The Guardian

This season has made us love the show again. Even though it has had some misses, the episodes have been largely enjoyable, the Doctor’s friends are well-rounded and fully developed people, and the Doctor is exciting. Whittaker is wide-eyed, energetic and empathic, and it is refreshing to see the Doctor played as someone who truly cares about individuals, even when she has to deal with saving the universe. Ryan and Yaz are particular favourites; the show has done a good job of allowing them to embody the full scope of their intersecting identities while at the same time letting them be their own people, and not forcing them to be representative of an entire group. It’s easy to connect with them. Bayana Davis, Robyn Jordan and Connie Gibbs are hosts of the podcast Who Watch: Time and Relative Blackness in Space.

Is Doctor Who finally getting it right on race?, The Guardian

Last month, Constance Gibbs, writer and editor at Black Girls Create and contributor to the Time and Relative Blackness in Space podcast, wrote a thoughtful explanation of how, to white children in the 1960s, a Police Box offering urgent help would have appeared as a welcome sight.

Netflix’s “The Kindergarten Teacher” Never Talks About Race. It Should., Teal Mango

 “The Kindergarten Teacher…takes the white savior trope and shows you how it often comes off to most audiences of color: not that heartwarming,” reviewer Constance Gibbs points out in her review for SheKnows.

Putting Women Back in the Narrative: Historical Fiction That Remembers The Ladies, YALSA