Black Women Are Born Superheroes!!!! (Feat. Jay Hero)
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For All Nerds
4.9 • 627 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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One of our most fire interviews, and quite timely given everything going on out there. Stay hopeful, remember community is the way through everything, and peep the latest and greatest from the ForAllNerds Family.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fan, fam. On this episode, we welcome Jay Hero, an award-winning illustrator, graphic designer, and writer, whose project Starwilder is up now on Kickstarter. |
| 0:09.7 | It's a 50-page debut comic featuring a black girl with firepowers. |
| 0:14.0 | And she also teaches you hunch races right in the face. Hey, welcome back fan-fam to another fantastic episode of For All Nourge. |
| 0:32.7 | And as usual, we're bringing you the best when it comes into interviews. |
| 0:36.8 | And today is not unlike any other, right? |
| 0:39.1 | We always have some amazing creators. |
| 0:42.0 | This one is an award-winning illustrator, if I do say so myself. |
| 0:46.6 | Graphic designer, writer. |
| 0:48.7 | I know that you have a passion for social change and you exhibit that and your creativity |
| 0:53.6 | with your work. |
| 0:54.4 | And you're the founder of Hero Nation. |
| 0:56.1 | It's a creative studio that champions black and diverse voices through fiction. |
| 1:00.1 | You are a 2024 awardee of the Arc Fund grant and your works have been featured by Netflix, |
| 1:06.0 | DC Comics, Image, Only Press, and more. |
| 1:09.0 | So ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Jay Hero. |
| 1:13.9 | Thank you. Oh, my goodness. All those accolades just listed out like that. |
| 1:18.9 | Yes. Thank you so much for coming on the show. I always got to applaud everyone for listening to us. |
| 1:24.2 | We've been saying, if you have a comic or a project or anything you're working on, |
| 1:50.5 | reach out to us and tell us. We want to talk to you. And you did just that. You reached out to us. So thank you. We want to give you kudos for that. And now here you are. So there are plenty of people who've never seen you before, have no idea what you've done, why you're even here on this show. Can you please give people just an overview of what you're working on it and what you do? Yeah. So as you said, my name is J. Hero. I am just an avid believer in leaning into part of my purpose and inspiring |
| 1:57.6 | positive change in the world. And I've always been that way since I was a kid. And that's evolved differently from whether or not I want to do things like directly |
| 2:05.9 | protesting or using my or organizing and started a nonprofit, which I did, you know, back in my |
| 2:11.8 | 20s and or doing storytelling that helps to provide empowerment or provide awareness on issues that are that are trying to be erased. |
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