An image can look beautiful or distorted depending on the lens you view it through. I remember 6th-grade science when I was tasked with finding an amoeba cell through a microscope lens. I followed the teacher’s instructions exactly, but all I could see when I looked through the eyepiece were blurry spots. It turns out the microscope lens was broken. Once I got a new microscope, I found the single-cell organism and all its intricate details. The amoeba was there the whole time. It was the lens I viewed it through that distorted my perception of it. 

 

Similarly, there are many kids whose lenses for how they see themselves in the world are distorted, broken, or non-existent.

Only 11.7 % of children’s books and only 5.6% of children’s cartoons contain Black characters. It is time that children of all backgrounds are able to view themselves portrayed in a clear, positive, and empowering light. At Looking Lens, we make this a reality. 

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Brittney Dias

C.E.O & Co-Founder of Looking Lens