Abbie Mills Deserves Better

a moment of silence for nicole beharie, stana katic, katie cassidy and all the other ‘leading ladies’ who got screwed over by the network/showrunners

Sleepy Hollow Preview: “Incident at Stone Manor” » Abbie Mills

First season in

And to be honest I thought I won’t be able to ship them because of Cranes wife, but after those words in episode 6 it was ON!

“My job was to carry you forward.” –Abbie Mills’ last words

I quit the show in season 2, and when I heard about this I wasn’t gonna post about it, but it’s just so awful on so many levels. as a black woman, I was so excited to be represented in a TV show, let alone as a *lead* in that show. I loved Abbie Mills as the wonderfully three dimensional, engaging, and strong woman she was, with her own significant ancestry and storylines.

everything in me rejects that line. as much as I shipped Ichabbie, Abbie Mills did not exist for Ichabod Crane. BLACK WOMEN DO NOT EXIST TO PROP UP THE STORIES OF WHITE MEN. it is a lesson history, and our media, have yet to learn. when I started the show watching the pilot, I had hope Sleepy Hollow would understand that. instead, it did worse – it pretended it did, and then revealed its true colors. We waited for Abbie’s storylines to be focused on, and we got a gradual sidelining of her character for a parade of bland white women that went in and out of Ichabod’s life, and the show’s focus on them.

RIP Grace Abigail Mills. You deserved better.

Nicole Beharie’s random tweets & instagram postings from the past months tells a story. 

I just noticed that Nicole RTed this article. Honestly, as hurt as I am by Abbie’s death, I am SO proud of Nicole for standing up for herself and her craft. She really deserves so much better than what the TPTB of SH gave her and it’s so inspiring to me that she was willing to give up what- from the outside may have seemed like a secure job- because she was able to recognize her own worth. Go Nicole!

That look you get when your would be girlfriend invites another man to join Monster Club.

Abbie Mills Deserves Better

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