Radha Blank

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Summary

Radha Blank is a writer, director, actor, and playwright whose work includes The Forty-Year-Old Version, Empire, and She’s Gotta Have It. Her work often centers black women’s creative lives and explores body image, misogyny, and the barriers black women face in entertainment. Blank has said she sees filmmaking and social commentary as her form of activism, aims to make black women protagonists, and feels responsible for making her casts and crews inclusive. No public identification as queer or public party campaigning is on record.