Amira Virgil has been playing The Sims for almost two decades, and still can’t make a Sim that looks like her without user-created modifications to the game, or “mods,” as they’re called. She’s trying to change that.
Virgil, more commonly known by her online moniker XMiramira, belongs to a long lineage of Black women who are tired of waiting for change and have decided to take matters into their own hands. As rapper Megan Thee Stallion noted in a New York Times editorial, “[Black women] have gone from being unable to vote legally to a highly courted voting bloc—all in little more than a century.”
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