"Hermione was Black. Dumbledore was Gay."
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The founders of Black Girls Create join us to talk about what it's like to be a black girl nerd, defaulting to whiteness in books and pop culture, nerds vs. geeks vs. dweebs, feminism and visibility and representation -- and, of course, sooooo much Harry Potter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to The Librarian is in the New York Public Libraries podcast about books, culture, and what to read next. |
| 0:14.2 | I'm Gwen. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Frank. |
| 0:15.9 | And just as a reminder, we're in our brave new world where we come out every week. |
| 0:22.8 | And every other show is a conversation slash interview with awesome people from the world of books that we think are especially |
| 0:28.0 | cool. So it's actually fitting that we're starting with two people who I think are extremely |
| 0:34.0 | awesome. Biona and Robin from Black Girls Create, |
| 0:37.8 | which is a website that's a hub for black nerds and creators. |
| 0:41.6 | Their work and the work of other people that they foster is super cool. |
| 0:45.4 | And I'm really excited to have you guys on the show via Skype. |
| 0:49.1 | So thanks so much for coming. |
| 0:51.0 | Thank you for having us. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm a huge, like, can you be a library groupie? I'm a library |
| 0:57.7 | and please. I'll take any groupie I can get. Is this, is that Robin? It's Robin. I see I'm |
| 1:05.1 | the NYPL gift store and when I went to see Hamilton, I walked in to visit her and then quickly just |
| 1:12.4 | left her and was like, there was a library. I got to go. There's huge. It's the library. |
| 1:17.6 | So, oh, that's awesome. Did you see the Hamilton exhibit? I did. I was like, I was like, |
| 1:23.8 | oh, it's perfect. Oh, that's awesome. So now you guys are, you're talking to, we're in New York, obviously. You guys are, where are you two? You're in different states, aren't you? Yeah. Unfortunately. I'm in Chicago and Robin is in Oakland. Right. Yeah. But I know you both met in Oakland, right? We're a cousin. We met in birth. |
| 1:45.9 | Well, I met a class. |
| 1:46.9 | All right. |
| 1:47.4 | Tell us the story about how you came to be this super duper duo. |
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