11 LGBTQ women who should write for The L Word reboot

Screenshot: L’Oréal Paris USA YouTube, “Hari’s Confidence from the Perfect Foundation Shade | True Match”

Hari Nef

Perhaps this goddess looks familiar to you, not just because she’s an Instagram warrior, but because she’s pretty damn accomplished for only having been on the scene for a few years. She’s a writer, she’s a model, she’s an actress (she was on season 2 of Transparent!), and maybe most notably, in 2015, she was signed to IMG Models and subsequently became the first openly transgender model to do so. She’s kind of a big deal, tbh, and she is exactly what we need to keep The L Word ~current~.

Now, perhaps some of you are saying, “But Hari JUST started watching, how can she possibly understand the full range of this transcendent show?”

And I’ll tell you how: because she just GETS IT. A mere three hours from her very first tweet about it, she proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she is fully in on the culture of obsessing over this damn show with this singular but wholly artful tweet:

And just like that, I trusted her. I knew she eye-rolls so hard every time Jenny appears that she may have injured herself once or twice. I know she appreciates Alice and Shane; I just feel it in my bones. I know Tina isn’t her favorite, and I know Bette is pretty intriguing, but could be fiercer. But what I know truly, madly, deeply down in my heart is that if Hari had anything to do with it, the disastrous missteps they made in Maura/Max’s storyline would not have escalated to a damn Willy Wonka themed baby shower, THAT’s for sure.

She’s way cooler than that. She’s smarter, and more socially aware, and more insightful, and if she met me at a party, she wouldn’t laugh at my musical theater-based jokes that were somehow intended as flirtation, she’d just look at me like I belong in a garbage jail, and honestly, THAT is the kind of very chill young woman we need to escalate this series!!!!!

Please save us.