11 LGBTQ women who should write for The L Word reboot

Ashley C. Ford, Book View Now interview still, image via YouTube

Ashley C. Ford

When I think about lady writers I admire and respect and would read truly anything from, I think of Ashley. When I think of Twitter feeds I would follow to the ends of the Earth, or profiles I will never stop berating family and friends for not yet following, I think of Ashley’s. When I think of brave, strong, opinionated, intelligent, funny, woke, deeply sentimental creators, I think of Ashley. And when I think of shows that could fully stand to be elevated by this kind of talent, I think of The damn L Word.

Let me get one thing straight about this gay, gay show: it is v. problematic. Much of it took place more than 10 years ago, so I get it. But also, wowie wow wow can it get hard to watch in 2017. We need to make sure this doesn’t continue in the reboot. We gotta be certain that we’re creating characters that are inclusive and situations that are representative of real stories, and to do that, we need people like Ashley. Her writing is poignant and honest and often rooted in real traumas she’s experienced or dramas she’s endured, and she does that for a reason:

"“I write about heavy, serious issues because we often forget that there are real bodies and souls behind them.”"

We need a new L Word, but we also need an L Word that acknowledges these real bodies and souls, and not in the weirdly dismissive, muddled way it attempted to in 2006.

We also need Bette Porter to be as woke as possible because honestly, she is capable of saving this entire planet but only if she’s in the right hands. Ilene? Ms. Chaiken? There are many, many hands on this list. Please ensure that these ladies, in fact, get in formation.