{"id":1515746,"date":"2022-06-14T15:50:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T19:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515746"},"modified":"2022-06-14T15:50:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T19:50:43","slug":"a-league-of-their-own-series-goes-woke-with-queer-stories-and-women-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-league-of-their-own-series-goes-woke-with-queer-stories-and-women-of-color\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A League Of Their Own\u2019 Series Goes Woke With \u2018Queer Stories\u2019 And \u2018Women Of Color\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-league-of-their-own-series-goes-woke-with-queer-stories-and-women-of-color%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515746&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u201cA League of Their Own\u201d series on Amazon Prime goes woke with \u201cqueer stories\u201d and \u201cwomen of color,\u201d the show\u2019s co-creator Will Graham explained about the twist on the hit 1992 film.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime series debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival Monday with the co-creator discussing the series \u2014 inspired by the fictionalized film about the Rockford Peaches and the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Graham said the series will focus on the untold stories of black women who did actually play baseball in the 1950s and more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2022\/06\/a-league-of-their-own-series-preview\">Vanity Fair<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a much bigger story there that wasn\u2019t just about a team, but that was really about a whole generation,\u201d Graham explained. \u201cThat\u2019s a big part of why we wanted to make it.\u00a0It was just this feeling of\u2014especially with queer stories, women of color\u2014having a story that\u2019s really centered on joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were between eight and nine hundred women who played in the AAGPBL,\u201d he added. \u201cThere were hundreds and hundreds and hundreds more who either weren\u2019t allowed to play or played on industrial teams or weren\u2019t in the right cities. There was just such a wealth of characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Abbi Jacobson and D\u2019Arcy Carden take the field in the first footage of the \u2018A League of Their Own\u2019 reboot. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/StpseZzdq7\">https:\/\/t.co\/StpseZzdq7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VanityFair\/status\/1534172654017687556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat includes straight people, queer people, people of color, you know, all the people who couldn\u2019t get fit into the two-hour 1992 movie,\u201d Graham continued. \u201cI think our focus is just on telling those stories joyfully, truthfully, and in a way that resonates with the world now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham said he loves Penny Marshall\u2019s 1992 classic and recalled a conversation he had with co-creator Abbi Jacobsen as the two talked \u201cabout what our version [of A League of Their Own] would be and how it would incorporate more real stories of women who wanted to play baseball in the \u201940s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQueer people didn\u2019t just come out of the blue at Stonewall,\u201d Jacobson, who, like Graham, identifies as queer shared. \u201cI do think so much of the stuff we\u2019re dealing with today and the way you talk to your friends was there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chant\u00e9 Adams, who plays Maxine in the film \u2014 a girl who tries out for the league but is turned away because she\u2019s black \u2014 said \u201cto this day, they are the only women to ever play professional baseball on a major league level.\u00a0And yet we don\u2019t hear about them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know their names,\u201d she added of the three Black women her character is based on that played in the Negro Leagues, the outlet noted. \u201cI didn\u2019t know about them until this project came to me. And so just kind of uncovering the forgotten history, that\u2019s what I really love to do\u2014whether it\u2019s about an actual person or just based on stories from the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA League of Their Own\u201d hits the streaming site in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA League of Their Own\u201d series on Amazon Prime goes woke with \u201cqueer stories\u201d and \u201cwomen of color,\u201d the show\u2019s co-creator Will Graham explained about the twist on the hit 1992 film. 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