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walidahimarisha

Walidah is a writer, organizer, educator and performance poet. She has also been a nerd since the womb. She is the co-editor of the upcoming anthology Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements. She currently teaches in Portland State University's Black Studies Department and Oregon State University's Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department.
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Literature School of Hard NOCs Sci Fi

Sankofa, Survival, and Science Fiction: A Graduation Speech

By walidahimarishaJune 26, 2015June 24, 2015
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Literature Sci Fi

Rewriting the Future: Using Science Fiction to Re-envision Justice

By walidahimarishaMarch 9, 2015March 9, 2015
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Illustration by John Jennings
Literature Sci Fi

An Update to the Brood

By walidahimarishaSeptember 24, 2014September 24, 2014
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Literature Sci Fi

Octavia’s Brood is Touring the Northwest

By walidahimarishaFebruary 11, 2014February 25, 2014
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Star Trek Television

Don’t Be Riker

By walidahimarishaNovember 5, 2013June 17, 2014
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Art Fantasy Misc

Warriors Behind Walls Continued

By walidahimarishaOctober 28, 2013July 10, 2015
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Lit Week Literature NOC Poetry

NOC Poetry: “Supa Soul Sistas”

By walidahimarishaOctober 26, 2013May 8, 2014
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Lit Week Literature Sci Fi

Growing Octavia’s Brood: The Science Fiction Social Justice Created

By walidahimarishaOctober 25, 2013February 17, 2014
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Art Fantasy Misc

Warriors Behind Walls

By walidahimarishaSeptember 16, 2013November 18, 2014
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Music Origins Sci Fi

The Making of “Spaced Out” or, How I Learned to Subvert Mainstream Sci-Fi to a Beat

By walidahimarishaSeptember 13, 2013June 17, 2014
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