Femme Blerd

It’s okay to cry.

It’s okay not to trust white people from jump.

It’s okay to be loud.

It’s okay to wear weave.

It’s okay to have depression.

It’s okay to walk around in your bonnet.

It’s okay to be angry. You have every right.

It’s okay to place your needs above men.

It’s okay not to be interested in men whatsoever.

It’s okay to be fat.

It’s okay to twerk.

It’s okay not to have “traditional” education.

It’s okay to be brilliant. It’s okay not to be.

It’s okay to be shy.

It’s okay to be vegan.

It’s okay to be mean.

It’s okay to be quiet.

It’s okay to be a boss ass bitch.

It’s okay to be ghetto.

It’s okay to be a single mom.

It’s okay not to desire marriage.

It’s okay to speak your mind.

It’s okay to be selfish. You are not a mule.

It’s okay not to believe in God.

It’s okay not to code-switch. AAVE is valid.

It’s okay to have a mental illness.

It’s okay to ask for help.

It’s okay not to be conventionally attractive.

It’s okay to be sexually liberated.

It’s okay to just be.

You are valid.

Your ideas, your mind, your personality, your lifestyle, your hobbies, your aspirations, and your abilities are all valid.

Don’t ever forget it.

    Black Girl Nerds and AfroFuturism go together like a hand in glove. BGN represented this past weekend at Black Tech Week in Miami, Florida. Nearly 1600 attendees gathered for the event for the second year in a row to discuss the contributions of Blacks in the realms of science fiction, and technology. Felecia Hatcher and Derrick Pearson, co-founders of the Black Tech Week event, aim to create…

DIY crochet amigurumi patterns and dolls by CyanRoseCreations on Etsy

Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction ( 2016 )

By André M. Carrington

“In Speculative Blackness, André M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction—including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures—to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness in the popular imagination.

Carrington’s argument about authorship, fandom, and race in a genre that has been both marginalized and celebrated offers a black perspective on iconic works of science fiction. He examines the career of actor Nichelle Nichols, who portrayed the character Uhura in the original Star Trek television series and later became a recruiter for NASA, and the spin-off series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, set on a space station commanded by a black captain. He recovers a pivotal but overlooked moment in 1950s science fiction fandom in which readers and writers of fanzines confronted issues of race by dealing with a fictitious black fan writer and questioning the relevance of race to his ostensible contributions to the ‘zines. Carrington mines the productions of Marvel comics and the black-owned comics publisher Milestone Media, particularly the representations of black sexuality in its flagship title, Icon.”

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Wallow  //  Bravest Warriors

Wallow is one of the main characters of the web series Bravest Warriors, and is one of the four members of the team. He is voiced by Ian Jones-Quartey.

His glove contains a computer A.I. named Pixel (voiced by Maria Bamford) who gets jealous easily. His sticker pet is a falcon that forms an axe. It can also form a bazooka and a guitar. He has a wide range of companions such as Impossibear and Catbug. 

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*looks at @mutantlexi*