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Issa Rae’s Insecure just finished its second season, but for its third, the showrunner is ready to tackle LGBT issues. In an interview with BET, Rae discussed season one’s relationship. Jo-Issa Rae Diop[1] (born January 12, ), [2] known professionally as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, and producer. [3][4] She achieved recognition as the co-creator, co-writer, and star of the HBO comedy series Insecure (–), for which she was nominated for multiple Golden Globes Awards and Primetime Emmy Awards.

[5][6]. Rae will pen this show alongside Daily Show writer Travon Free, who is himself a black, bisexual man. The latter show, Him or Her, is particularly exciting given that the intersection between the black community and homosexuality/bisexuality is one that is ripe for examination. Issa Rae and Emma Corrin’s sapphic Black Mirror episode has left fans absolutely gutted.

On 10 April, the hit anthology series made its grand return following a two-year hiatus. Emma Corrin and Issa Rae play lovers in Black Mirror season seven episode ‘Hotel Reverie’.

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(Getty) However, things soon go off-script and as a result Dorothy begins to breakaway from her programming, realising her repressed queerness. The episode ends on a semi-positive note (rare for Black Mirror). Issa Rae, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated creator and star of Insecure , and writer and director Stella Meghie, join author Roxane Gay for a discussion of their new film, The Photograph —a powerful multigenerational story of love, family history, and art.

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