If You Don’t Understand Why Representation Matters, Listen to This Song

Kristen Pizzo
3 min readSep 13, 2019
Photo by Aneta Pawlik

The phrase “representation matters” has been thrown around so much in recent years.

For people who are not marginalized in any way, it can be difficult to understand just how seeing oneself in media makes a difference.

There has been research on the impact of a lack of representation. A few studies have found that TV

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Kristen Pizzo

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