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For Women of Color Week I wanted to share something from the best Batgirl Cassandra Cain. Cass is probably one of the most underrated and misused comic characters (the less said about that 'Birds of Prey' film the better). I didn't know what to post but settled on her big fight with Lady Shiva from #25.

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"I've always thought of myself as a sidekick. Growing up as an Asian American geek in a very small town, that's all I thought I could be. I loved reading about superheroes, fantastical beings committed to saving the world– but I never felt like I could be one, because I never saw anyone who looked like me centered in these stories.

Cassandra Cain was one of the first Asian girl heroes I saw who actually got to be the hero. She wasn't a sidekick, she wasn't cannon fodder, she wasn't there to teach anyone a Very Important Lesson about racism. She was freaking Batgirl. And she was biracial, like me! I devoured every appearance, I obsessed over every story point, I adored the way creators Kelley Puckett and Damion Scott envisioned her.

I fell in love with Cassandra Cain– and she helped me see that a superhero could look like me." – Sarah Kuhn

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