Sarah Shahi and Mo Amer on ‘Black Adam’ and Speaking Truth to (Super)Power
With Black Adam poised to be the DCEU’s latest foray onto the big screen, we recently got to sit down
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Star Trek Day 2022: A Celebration of Family and Belonging
On Wednesday, September 8, 2022, the Star Trek fandom community and many of the stars and creators of that universe
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‘Mira, Royal Detective’ and Celebrating Diversity and Community in the Time of Social Distancing
This was supposed to be a different kind of article. Two weeks ago, The Nerds of Color youth correspondents and
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On Mirrors, Doorways, and ‘Abominable’ Snowmen
As a multiracial Asian American parent raising multiracial Asian American daughters in a media landscape much different from the one
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‘Andi Mack,’ Children’s Television, and a Future in Full Color
A lot of people of color of my generation who are passionate about diversity and representation in the media tend
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‘Smallfoot’ Layers Fun with Deep Thoughts; Common, Gina Rodriguez Talk Art and Activism
What if, instead of humans not believing in Bigfoot or the Abominable Snowman, it was the other way around? That’s
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‘Teen Titans GO! To the Movies’ is Fun for Kids and Their Grown-ups
As a geek parent, I, for the most part, have been unsuccessful in passing on my enthusiasms to my teen
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‘Pan’ and the Amazing Technicolor Natives
First things first: Pan — opening in U.S. theaters this weekend — is a colorful, action-packed PG-13 reimagining of the origins
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Kickstart This: The Princess Who Saved Herself
Two years ago, comics writer and filmmaker (and familiar name to NOC readers) Greg Pak, known for his work on several
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My Daughter’s Preschool Class Sang “Let It Go”
I’m sure that by now you’ve seen the video in which young Jathan Muhar answers the perennial graduation-time question of “What do
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The LEGO Movie’s Lessons for Raising NOCs-In-Training
I took my 9- and 5-year-old daughters to see The LEGO Movie on the second day it was out, and all
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Dressing Our NOCs-in-Training on Halloween
In honor of The Nerds of Color’s first Halloween, this week’s School of Hard NOCs features our own little NOCs
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Shameless Self Promotion: Read These Books
The Nerds of Color collective is proud to be host to such an amazing group of talented creators, for not
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Talking Back to White Creators: Rachel Rostad’s “To J.K. Rowling, From Cho Chang”
The flip side of the discussion of opening up the speculative fiction genres to more writers of color telling stories
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Diversifying Our Kids’ Genre Bookshelf
As the father of two daughters of color, finding reading material and other media that both reflect back at them
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Opening the Book on #LitWeekNOC
While this blog regularly gives voice(s) to the perspectives of self-proclaimed nerds of color on speculative media cinematic, televisual, animated,
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First Impressions: Sleepy Hollow
Fox’s Sleepy Hollow premiered on Monday, the first new speculative fiction show of the fall television season. We discussed our anticipation
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Spock as Interplanetary Mixed-Race Muse
It seems that Spock and his mixed-species brethren and sistren haven’t served as multiracial muses only to me and fellow
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How to Turn Your Toddler Into a Trekkie
In honor of Star Trek Week on The Nerds of Color, the School of Hard NOCs presents a little primer
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All My Role Models Have Pointy Ears
It was probably not a coincidence that my adolescent Trekkiehood (and no, I’m not uptight over the whole -ie vs.
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