When Something is Nearly ‘Everything’
There’s no fucking way they’re gonna be able to land this, I thought to myself. I’m in a movie theater
Bao Phi
Happy Nerd Fathers of Color Day
Some of us here at The Nerds of Color are also fathers, and we decided to put together a popcorn
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NOCs of the Roundtable: Hot Star Wars Takes Awaken
You might not have known, but a little movie opens this weekend. It’s called Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Heard
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NOCs of the Roundtable: Best Fight Scenes Ever
As our friend Angry Asian Man broke the nerdtastic news this week that some fine fighters from The Raid would
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On the Radio: Representing People of Color in Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Bao Phi, Chaun Webster, and I talk race, brown folks, and whiteness on Minnesota Public Radio with Daily Circuit host
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An Open Letter to The New York Times’ Critic Manohla Dargis about Big Hero 6
It’s too bad that in making its first movie based on a Marvel comic Disney didn’t decide to take a
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An Update to the Brood
We know it has been a while since you have received an update about the visionary sci-fi anthology Octavia’s Brood:
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Origins of The N.O.C.: Year One
Believe it or not, today marks the one year anniversary of the official launch of this blog. (While we reposted
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Have Anarchy and Eat it Too — The Purge: Anarchy Doesn’t Quite Make It
Many of us nerds were bullied as kids, and subsequently we dreamed not of a world without violence, but some
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Why Did I Watch the New Transformers Movie?
I’m out of town, and there’s a movie theater a block from my hotel. As a father, I don’t get
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NOCs of the Roundtable: Kicking Off Cap Week
If you hadn’t heard, a little indie movie called Captain America: The Winter Soldier opened over the weekend, and to
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NOCs of the Roundtable: Favorite Asian Bad Guys
This week on Hard N.O.C. Life, I’ll be interviewing our buddies Stephen and Patrick from the National Film Society. They
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Ready for the World: The Magic of ‘Princess Mononoke’ & ‘Spirited Away’
Around 1987 or ’88, I was in junior high and in a funny stasis where my nerd creativity was beginning
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Missing Polygons: Asians, Race, and Video Games
I’ve been playing video games for as long as I can remember. From my dad giving me four quarters —
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Man of Tai Chi: Keanu and Tiger’s Unlikely Bromance
Many years ago, I watched a bonus feature on a Matrix DVD in which Keanu Reeves seemed to have a
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At the Nerds of Color, Friendship Really is Magic
The other day, the original Nerd of Color, Bao Phi, came by NOC HQ with a very big problem. His
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NOCs of the Roundtable: Head Over Heels for Sleepy Hollow
Before the season started, we did an episode of “Hard N.O.C. Life” in which we talked about the shows we
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NOCs of the Roundtable: The New Ms. Marvel
Yesterday, Marvel Comics made a splash by announcing the launch of Ms. Marvel #1, written by G. Willow Wilson with
Read MoreNot Gonna Make it: In Memoriam
My friend Kwame Phillips made this moving video tribute to the Not Gonna to Make It Characters of Color. *Sniff
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The Yellow Plague: Asian Americans in Zombie and Post-Apocalyptic Fiction
I originally wrote this as a guest post for Angry Asian Man back in 2010. I rewrote it recently for
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Miss Zaigon 2: Zombie Revenge at Cần Thơ
Miss Saigon is a blockbuster musical in which a virginal underage prostitute falls in love with a white G.I., then
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N.O.C. Nerd of Color — Updated for 2013
Thanks Keith for creating this site and inviting me! I revised my 2010 Origin Story for 2013. Check it out:
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NOCs (Nerds of Color)
The following is the original column by Bao that inspired this website. Originally posted at The Star Tribune on January
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