As she negotiates romantic and fertility challenges, Alicia, as a Black queer woman, must also face an intersection of oppressions including homophobia, racism and sexism. And the cool thing is that you get to see Black people that happen to be queer - and it can be messy and complicated.”īut while Denise serves as the entry point for the story, it is Ackie who does most of the dramatic heavy lifting. “I have heard from so many Black artists that they just want to see Black people who just exist. “I don’t think we’ve seen a complex love story like this between two Black women for an extended period of time,” Waithe said. An earlier study at the University of Michigan revealed that Black women are almost twice as likely to experience infertility than white women, and half as likely to receive medical help for it. According to a study published in Lancet in April, miscarriage rates are 43 percent higher for Black women than for white women. As the series shifted its point-of-view, it also took a deep dive into issues like miscarriages and infertility, which Black women disproportionately experience.
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