funsizedshaw:

If you tell people to watch poi for the f/f, you can’t just leave out the fact that Shaw is a woc. Yes, shoot is a very well written f/f relationship. Yes, the writers treat the women well. But it’s so important that Shaw is a woman of colour whose ethnicity is never ignored. She has never been whitewashed. And Sarah Shahi is a Persian woman just like Shaw. They didn’t just make her a generic brown woman (like tlw did) or whitewash her (like Fairly Legal did). The show constantly talks about her parents, her Iranian heritage, and we are shown how proud Shaw is of it all. Sameen Shaw is a bisexual, neurodivergent, woman of colour. Every part of that representation is important. Not just the fact that she’s part of a f/f pairing.