‘Lovecraft Country’ Shows Why We’ll Never Shrink From Sci-Fi Fantasy Horror Again

We have a right to inhabit SFF too, even if the critics don’t ‘get’ it

Ronda Racha Penrice
Momentum
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5 min readOct 20, 2020

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‘Lovecraft Country.’ Photo: Eli Joshua Ade/HBO

Being a Black woman with bold ideas centering Black women in spaces we’ve never occupied on screen—especially not all at once—is clearly Misha Green’s calling. With the close of what we hope is Lovecraft

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Ronda Racha Penrice
Momentum

ATL-based Ronda Racha Penrice is a writer/cultural critic specializing in film/TV, lifestyle, and more. She is the author of Black American History For Dummies.