EXCLUSIVE: Strength in NUMBERS Featuring EL GAMBINA by Jeremy Arambulo

October 26, 2013February 17, 2014 The Nerds of Color

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The Strength in NUMBERS train keeps rolling as we unveil the latest “variant” album cover to Chops’ massive Asian American hip-hop movement.

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Now, on to the latest Strength in NUMBERS album cover featuring the groundbreaking female emcee from Jersey EL GAMBINA illustrated by the Emmy-nominated artist Jeremy Arambulo.

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Lit Week, Literature, Poetry

NOC Poetry: “Supa Soul Sistas”

October 26, 2013May 8, 2014 Walidah Imarisha

In honor of the Nerds of Color Lit Week, I wanted to share a piece called “Supa Soul Sista.” I wrote and performed it with Turiya Autry and our poetry duo Good Sista/Bad Sista a few years ago.

We wrote it because we are both unabashed nerds. And we are also both Black feminist poets, professors and activist/organizers. As many folks reading this blog know, this mix can cause a bigger explosion than a warp core breach in the matter/anti-matter containment unit on the Starship Enterprise. Often there are no images of anyone who looks like us in comics or in sci-fi, and those folks who do are not authentic representations, but are often more ideas of what white male writers think Black women are.

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