While Steven Universe’s epic story has come to a close, the Crystal Gems aren’t quite finished with the world just yet.Read more
But, as Dietz pointed out over the course of the discussion, the new PSAs Cartoon Network is running on its social media channels feature
Steven Universe’s characters and some of its more important core themes that Estelle in particular was keen on seeing explored in situations closer to our own reality.
“I just wanted to find another way, and I’m just grateful that Rebecca and Ian [Jones-Quartey] and everybody up at Cartoon Network said, ‘Yes, let’s do this and let’s do something,’” Estelle said. “Because I think it is all of us, and once we all realise and understand, ‘OK, I may not be Black, but it affects me. It’s going to affect me, it’s going to affect somebody I love, it’s going to affect a friend, it’s going to.’”