Roll for Initiative: Children's play uses fantasy setting to tackle systemic racism

Kunji Ikeda loves fantasy stories like the Lord of the Rings trilogy as much as anyone, but always found the racial subtext underneath those imaginative universes a little troubling. "I adore Tolkien and I think he was ahead of his times in many respects," Ikeda said in a release, "but the fantasy genre has a lot of problematic tropes that are finally starting to be discussed and re-examined." Basically, by 'problematic tropes', Ikeda means for a long time in fantasy fiction, heroes were white g