With the sheer absence of unlikeable women of color until quite recently, being unlikeable is still mostly the territory of cis, skinny, conventionally attractive white women. The anger or wit of Black women has been routinely transformed into comic relief or used to feed the damaging stereotype of the Angry Black Woman. Their agency and sexuality has more often than not been weaponized against them with the more noxious stereotype of the Jezebel, rendering the depiction of Black women’s sexuality a double-edged sword: the screen paints them as sensual, attractive, and alluring while at the
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