A year later, parenting blogger Sachi Feris wrote an essay for Raising Race Conscious Children about why she wouldn’t let her white daughter dress up as Moana for Halloween, adult power ranger costume which went viral. “I, for one, cosplay mostly white characters myself and I don’t change my skintone. However, there were others who argued that children shouldn’t be denied the joy of dressing up as the characters they admire. In the post, titled ‘Moana, Elsa, video game costume and Halloween,’ the writer explained her reasoning for letting her then-five-year-old dress up as Elsa from the Disney hit Frozen but not Moana after discussing cultural appropriation with her little girl.