#lwaitheedit

[rooneyredcarpet]

Lena Waithe in Zegna at the Gotham Awards (2023)

[lesbianelsas]

Lena Waithe Explains the Significance of Cutting Her Hair (video)

[talesfromthecrypts]

Lena Waithe as Helen (aka Aech) in Ready Player One

[meliorn]

LGBTQ meme: [12/15] gay/lesbian characters → Denise (Master of None) I can make a woman come more times in 20 minutes than she has in the last 6 months.

[alicenthightower]

Lena Waithe photographed by Austin Hargrave for OUT Magazine

In Waithe’s mind, minority writers have a responsibility to share their stories. “In this world, we’re often silenced,” she says. “Particularly as a black woman, you’re told to shut up and sit down. We’ve been silenced for hundreds of years. No more.” She found the collaboration process especially empowering. “It was Netflix, Aziz, and Melina, and they were all like, ‘No, bitch. Say what you gotta say. This is your moment. This is your story. We’re not gonna compromise it.’ That was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced.”

[siobhan-roy]

“I’ve been doing this for a long time. It took the industry a second to pay attention, to catch up, to look at me.”

⏤ Lena Waithe photographed by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair, April 2018