As authors of their own series, Mara Brock Akil, creator of Being Mary Jane, and Issa Rae, creator of Insecure, have articulated their commitment to constructing black women as multidimensional subjects that embody contradictions. This article explores how Akil and Rae strategically deploy vulnerability in their televisual narratives to reframe black women as human; countering the Hollywood convention of representing black women in extremes, either superhuman or subhuman. The cumulative bodies of their work—that is, television series, press interviews, and promotional content—function as a pathway to humanity that does not require black women to capitulate to hegemonic scripts in order to be visible in the televisual sphere.

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生产性弱点：当代有线电视中的黑人女性作家和人类叙事

作为自己系列的作者，《成为玛丽·简》的创作者玛拉·布洛克·阿基尔和不安全的创作者伊萨·雷表​​达了他们致力于将黑人女性构建为体现矛盾的多维主题的承诺。本文探讨了 Akil 和 Rae 如何在电视叙事中战略性地部署脆弱性，以将黑人女性重新塑造为人类；反对好莱坞在极端情况下代表黑人女性的惯例，无论是超人还是非人。他们工作的累积体——即电视连续剧、新闻采访和宣传内容——作为通向人性的途径发挥作用，不需要黑人女性为了在电视领域可见而屈服于霸权脚本。