Film Review: Harlem Writer Spreads Her Wings, Radha Blank in Netflix’s ‘40-Year Old Version’

DuEwa Frazier
5 min readDec 8, 2020
Radha Blank in “The 40-Year Old Version”

YO! Where my period at? These are the lyrics Radha Blank spits in the new Netflix film “The 40-Year-Old Version.” Enter Radha. A Black female playwright, budding lyricist, poet, womanist, and arts teacher. She’s been writing for a long time and yearns to be acknowledged for her artistic genius. But she also wants to stay true to…

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