-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Nobody has had as terrible a day, month or year as Queenie Jenkins. The 25-year-old British-Jamaican protagonist of Candice Carty-Williams' novel "Queenie," has jumped off the page and onto the television screen in Hulu's series adaptation of the same name. Queenie (Dionne Brown) is a 20-something Black woman working as a social media intern trying to make it as a writer.
Meanwhile, she has a complicated breakup with her long-term white boyfriend and is dealing with painful traumatic experiences in her immigrant Jamaican family, specifically her fraught relationship with her mom. Although she has the support of her best friend, Kyazike (R&B singer Bellah ), the conflicts in Queenie's life come to a head as she deals with the damaging fallout of her breakup and not feeling understood or heard at her predominantly white workplace. Queenie struggles to hold it all together like she thinks she should, but she is a gaping, bleeding wound of raw emotion.
"I think that in so many ways, we're all trying our best as Black women." "Since I could remember I've always been told to be strong. I've always been told that I can handle everything," Carty-Williams, who is also a showrunner and executive producer on "Queenie," told me in an interview.
"When I was in my 20s, it all fell apart. And that's why I was able to write this character because I know what it feels like. And I'm really bored of the idea that Black women need to be strong and handle e.
