LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE
HEN SHE ROLLED onto television screens last year, Nafessa Williams was a force to be reckoned with on the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking . Playing the first Black lesbian superhero—as part of the first Black superhero family on network TV—Williams wowed as a queer millennial medical student and health educator who rejects the respectability politics of her parent’s generation. The show, as well as the blockbuster film , ushered in a new era in which Black women (and men) were portrayed as powerful, desirable, and honorable purveyors of justice and morality. In an era of
