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Wrer Roxane Gay opens up about beg Marvel's first black woman lead wrer and her new project, 'Black Panther: World of Wakanda.'

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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.

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.

ROXANE GAY ON BEG THE FIRST BLACK FEMALE LEAD MARVEL WRER: 'WE AREN'T ALLOWED TO FAIL'

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. “All too often, black creators aren’t allowed to make mistak, ” Gay said. ” However, Gay is up to the challenge — and lookg to the future.

" Wrer ROXANE GAY (Bad Femst, Hunger) sps a Wakandan love story — s tenrns matched only by s btaly. GenrComicsGraphic NovelsFantasyFictnLGBTGraphic Novels ComicsComic Book 36 pag, Kdle EdnPublished November 9, 2016About the thorRoxane Gay’s wrg appears Bt Amerin Mystery Stori 2014, Bt Amerin Short Stori 2012, Bt Sex Wrg 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, T Hoe, Oxford Amerin, Amerin Short Fictn, Virgia Quarterly Review, and many others. Author 24 books56 followersNovember 15, 2016Gay and Harvey are off to a good start.

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