Tee Franklin
Author & Screenwriter
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![A Black woman with faux locs in a half up/down ponytail hairstyle. She is wearing a blouse patterned with tulips and staring into the camera.]](https://www.fordfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/dff-2022-tee-franklin.jpg?w=710&h=710&crop=1)
Tee Franklin is a Black, queer, disabled, autistic wheelchair user, as well as a television and comics writer. Franklin wrote the GLAAD-nominated DC Comics/Harley Quinn series Eat, BANG! Kill Tour, which was a Number One hit on Amazon throughout 2021. Franklin is the first Black woman to write both Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy comics, as well as the first Black woman writer with multiple series published by Image Comics. Franklin hopes to pave the way for more marginalized comic creators as well as change the harmful disabled tropes plaguing the entertainment industry.
Franklin resides in New Jersey, is a mom of adult children, and can be found tweeting about anime, comics, and horror.