Brittani Nichols
Brittani Nichols is a comedian whose social media presence has brought me joy for a very long time, and who surely is just as funny as her Twitter handle would have you believe. She’s written for television (Billy on the Street), online publications (Jezebel, HuffPost, BuzzFeed), and even has her own movie (Suicide Kale), so clearly her resume is up to par. Her two popular podcasts, “Brand New Podcast” and “Hamilton the Podcast,” make it pretty evident that she’s more than qualified to bring our ladies into the 21st century. Plus, her acting background (you may have seen her on Transparent) will come in hella handy when she’s written herself into the show as Alice’s internet spirit guide to @TheChart2017.
And, not that we need any more reasons to love her, she’s already tweeted about the reboot, and seems pretty ready to jump in and address some of the show’s MAJOR issues. **cough theme song cough**
They're really attached to keeping the song. I said fine. Long as you change the lyrics, vocalists, instrumentation, tempo, and melody.
— Brittani Nichols (@BisHilarious) July 12, 2017
Necessary changes aside, Brittani’s sense of humor, clear understanding of the show, super impressive background, and willingness to poke fun at our inability to let go of the ghosts of pop culture past would make her a sure asset to the reboot.
I think it's comforting that instead of investing in new voices they will reboot The L Word every ten years until the end of time
— Brittani Nichols (@BisHilarious) July 12, 2017
As for her queer credentials? Because she’s an LGBTQ-identifying woman in a straight-white-male-driven world, her insight into the underrepresentation of women on screen is nothing less than brilliant. Check out her thoughts on writing for queer characters here:
"“Women are written terribly all the time, so it’s no surprise to me that queer women fare so poorly. We need to just call it what it is: if you can’t make a human being seem like a complete person regardless of their sexuality, gender, race or anything else, you’re a bad writer.”"
And because this is nine years and thousands of antsy and underrepresented gay girls in the making, we just cannot afford bad writers. We need you, Brittani.