Why Is The Sensuality Of Dark-Skinned Actresses Devalued On Screen?
Big and small
8 min readJun 6, 2018
I’m quite resistant to any of the facets of Shondaland and that’s not because I didn’t try hard enough to be wooed. Grey’s Anatomy was a hard one to warm up to when you consider that a Black woman created a show — starring a White lead actress and a mostly White supporting cast. And then after pleasing the White viewers enough…