Ten BIPOC Historybounding and Historical Costuming Influencers You Should Be Following
Edit: In the week since posting this I’ve had to remove a creator for participating in a campaign of slander and cyber bullying against me. The Facebook group she is in has erased my ethnicity, harassed me, and attempted to doxx me. I do not feel such a person should benefit from my support or receive support from a platform I pay for out of my own pocket.
When I set out to write this, I had the idea of doing multiple posts and splitting them into follower counts. As you can imagine though, with the exception of a few they all fell into a lower count number. This is common across many verticals in the social media game. BIPOC creators do not gain traction or notoriety in the way that white creators tend to. So what started as a one-off post may turn into a continuing series across all my verticals to help address the growing and existent diversity in various sub cultures.
Cheyney Mcknight – @ Not Your Momma’s History
“Join living historian Cheyney McKnight as she brings history to life in fun and interesting ways. Q&A videos, historic recipes, reproduction reviews, advice, historic crafts for children, book reviews, clothing reproduction and much more. Visit NotYourMommasHistory.com” Cheyney can also be found on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter!
Xiran Jay Zhao – @ Xiran Jay Zhao
“Chinese history educational memeing” Xiran can be found on YouTube, and Twitter!
Marvin-Alonzo Greer- @ MAG The Historian
“MAG the Historian is a living historian dedicated to the accurate representation and depiction of people of African descent throughout history.”
Marvin can also be found on Facebook, and Twitter!
Miss Tammi Savoy
“Sangin” from her heart and soul is what classic soul and vintage R&B singing ๐ป๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐ loves to do. Internationally touring with several elite bands as well as providing vocals for various highly acclaimed tribute shows, Elvis Tribute Artists, Ray Charles tributes, and Bobby Wilson: son of Jackie Wilson. Tammi’s rich and resonant vocals are featured in her own show: “๐ง๐ฎ๐บ๐บ๐ถ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐น๐น๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฏ๐ผ”. The Ameripolitan Awards โ2019 Rockabilly Female of the Yearโ, Tammi Savoy and award winning guitarist Chris Casello lay down Original 40’s, 50s & 60s inspired Music, Early Roots Rhythm and Blues, Jump Blues, Rockabilly, Classic Country, Roots Jazz, Blues and Swing. It is Mid-Century Rockinโ R&B: ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐ข & ๐๐ค๐ก๐ก! โIt was like going on a trip back in time, with the beautiful vintage dresses and soulful voice which mined the best of the 40โs, 50โs and early 60โsโ – AU Review.
Tammi can be found on Facebook, and YouTube.
Denise Nicole @ Time Travel Is Possible
“Sharing my love for living history, clothing, cooking, sewing, material culture”
NKS @ The Marchioness of None
“She/her. Antique and vintage finery for 21st century sensibilities. A BIPOC and LBTQIA+ inclusive space because decorum and fine taste is universal”
Naomi Glaser @ Naomi Loves History
Stefani @ Millennial Renaissance Woman
“She/They
Chef/Outdoorswoman/Burlesque/Podcaster” At first it felt cheap to include myself but if you made it all the way here why not.
I can be found across social media on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok.
Olalla @ A Veritable Negress
“A wild passion for the 14th century continues to collide with my inability to not fall into other eras. She/her”
As an unrelated aside Facebook apparently disabled your ability to embed IG posts in WordPress which made this post about 1000x harder to write and then panic about and then edit.