WHAT CARRIE MEANT TO US

At Celebration Anaheim in 2015, the panel “What Princess Leia Means to Me” featured six women who had worked professionally in Star Wars. After they praised many facets of the character, most of all that she never falters and always has hope, women and men went to the audience microphone to share how they too were inspired. As the woman behind the character, Carrie Fisher never let us forget that while we should aspire to greatness, sometimes we will falter—and that’s okay. For women particularly, who for a long time felt like the forgotten fanbase, Carrie Fisher became our unofficial General. She was a leader brimming with compassion. Acclaimed comics writer Gail Simone tweeted, “You can look at almost any group of women writers and know in your heart that…

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