Wrer Roxane Gay opens up about beg Marvel's first black woman lead wrer and her new project, 'Black Panther: World of Wakanda.'
Contents:
- ROXANE GAY'S 'WORLD OF WAKANDA': HOW SNDAL SPIRED THE NEW MARVEL IC
- ROXANE GAY ON BEG THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE LEAD MARVEL WRER: 'WE AREN'T ALLOWED TO FAIL'
ROXANE GAY'S 'WORLD OF WAKANDA': HOW SNDAL SPIRED THE NEW MARVEL IC
Now Gay, along wh poet Yona Harvey, make Marvel history as the first black women to wre for Marvel.
In their seri, World of Wakanda, Gay tells tal of the Dora Milaje, the Wakandan royal fay’s ele all-women fightg guard, while Harvey foc on female revolutnary Zenzi, who fights for her untry’s rights. “Historilly, the Dora Milaje have served the Black Panther loyally and whout qutn, ” says Gay of Wakanda’s polil climate when the seri kicks off.
ROXANE GAY ON BEG THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE LEAD MARVEL WRER: 'WE AREN'T ALLOWED TO FAIL'
9, EW ught up wh Gay to discs wrg her first ic, her storytellg fluenc, and who she’d like to see pen their own ic.
GAY: When Ta-Nehisi first approached me, I jt knew that I wanted to wre fierce women who uld be as timidatg as they are trigug. Roxane Gay has ma history as Marvel’s first black woman lead wrer for Black Panther: World of Wakanda, but her watershed achievement hasn’t been an effortls experience. Wrg about two women of lor a queer relatnship for a mostly whe, male-domated anchise is groundbreakg, but Gay not that n also be dntg.
In an terview wh Complex, Gay explas that while she is proud of the work that she is dog, ’s not always easy to be a trailblazer, pecially when to makg spac for diversy.