Hold the Trauma: I’m in the Market for a Silly, Sexy Black Rom-Com

It’s Valentine’s week, so I plan to watch a lot of Black love

Adrienne Gibbs
ZORA
Published in
4 min readFeb 15, 2021

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From “Jumping the Broom.” Photo: Sony Pictures Entertainment

I recently got a Valentine’s Day press release from a movie company that asked me to write about the romantic comedies in the company’s roster. They offered a list of the “most popular” lovey-dovey films of the 1990s and 2000s. And while I enjoyed 50

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Adrienne Gibbs
ZORA
Writer for

Director of Content @Medium. Award-winning journalist. Featured in a Beyoncé reel. Before now? EBONY, Netflix, Sun-Times, Miami Herald, Boston Globe.