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He’s gotta stop it: A Black, polyamorous femme on the Netflix “She’s Gotta Have It” reboot
by Veronica Morris Moore Spike Lee’s 2017 reboot of “She’s Gotta Have It” is mediocre, and that’s being generous. In the age of Black television like Issa Rae’s Insecure coupled with our collective endeavor to #StayWoke, Spike Lee seemingly understood that he had to “wake up” Nola Darling if the SGHI Netflix series was going […]
‘She’s Gotta Have It’ again: But with Netflix’s reboot, through the lens of Black women
She’s Gotta Have It, Spike Lee’s television reimagining of the film that made his career, is coming to Netflix on Thanksgiving Day. The concept of a free and sexual Black woman was groundbreaking when Lee introduced us to Nola Darling in 1986, and it is still groundbreaking in 2017, because there still aren’t many depictions […]