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01/25/2016

Black Girl Nerds TV Editor

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I’m the new @BlackGirlNerds TV Editor & I’m excited to get started! I wrote about my feels here.

09/22/2015

A Discussion Among Two TV Junkies

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#BGNPodcast In Case You Missed It: Summer, Fall TV, and Emmys Chat Jamie (of Black Girl Nerds) and I discussed Summer and Fall TV over on the Black Girl Nerds Podcast, including chats about Mr Robot, Vixen, Arrow and the Stephen Amell mess, and the ridiculous Sleepy Hollow/Bones crossover we’re all confused about. Take a […]

05/12/2015

Last week I did the #BGNPodcast with Cree Summer!

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#BGNPodcast In Case You Missed It: Cree Summer Last week, Black Girl Nerds did a special Thursday night podcast with none other than Cree Summer, from A Different World and maybe every 90s cartoon known to people in my age group. It was an honor to speak with her, she’s well known for her voices […]

01/15/2015

On Forgiving "Writer's Guilt" & Paying Your Rent – Daniel Jose Older on the #BGNPodcast

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I did another podcast this week with Black Girl Nerds, this time featuring author Daniel Jose Older, whose book, Half Resurrection Blues came out last week. He was very insightful and open about his writing process — offering many great pieces of advice — which I found very encouraging as a writer. On finding your writing […]

01/05/2015

BGN Podcast with the black-ish Kid Cast

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I co-hosted the Black Girl Nerds Podcast with the youngest stars of the television sitcom Black-ish. It was a great conversation, click through for a link to listen!

12/31/2014

Looking Back at 2014

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I wasn’t going to do one of these posts — I’m bad at putting retrospectives into words, writing about feelings, forgetting to include something, and all of that — but other blogs I follow are and I should probably acknowledge that 2014 was certainly better than 2013 in many ways (despite my feelings about how the […]

12/23/2014

I Was Quoted in Bitch Magazine on the New "Annie" Movie

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A while back, I wrote this article on Annie for Black Girl Nerds (still super proud of it’s title), then Emily Hashimoto of Bitch Magazine asked for more of my thoughts on having a black girl lead in a movie, which I happily provided. Here’s the quote: “Having more images of [young women of color] […]

12/05/2014

Flash v Arrow Video Podcast with The Nerds of Color

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My second podcast in a month! This time discussing the Flash and Arrow and their epic, two-night crossover.

11/20/2014

My First Podcast with Black Girl Nerds and Eric Dean Seaton

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I joined my first ever podcast this past Sunday with Jamie from Black Girl Nerds and Eric Dean Seaton, a TV director and graphic novel author. Since Seaton is a TV director, we talked a bit about that as well as his graphic novel series Legend of the Mantamaji, which stars a black superhero. I […]