Redefining Representation With ‘Well-Read Black Girl’
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Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A little while after Glory Edim created an Instagram account under the name Well-Read Black Girl, she said she started getting a lot of messages from young women thanking her for creating a space that offered reflections of themselves.
“It’s not only just an Instagram account, but people don’t see themselves reflected in their libraries, in their bookstores, in everyday conversation,” Edim says on Nerdette podcast. “The common theme is: People don’t feel fully heard. And I’m doing my best to change that.”
Well-Read Black Girl has since become a wide number of things, including a collection of essays, a Brooklyn-based book club, and an online community “that celebrates the uniqueness of Black literature and sisterhood.” Edim spoke with Nerdette host Greta Johnsen (and special guest host Arionne Nettles!) about how she got to where she is and what she’s still trying to accomplish.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
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| 0:15.6 | From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdette I'm Greta Johnson and I'm |
| 0:21.2 | Ariane Nettles. Arian I'm so excited to have you in the studio. |
| 0:24.5 | So you are a digital producer here at W be easy. But I was thinking about it |
| 0:29.7 | have we ever we have not actually like worked on a project together in like a worky form? |
| 0:35.4 | No, we have only been best friend book buddies. |
| 0:40.8 | That's it. |
| 0:41.3 | That's pretty much. I feel like too, the more I learn about you, the more I'm like, |
| 0:45.0 | oh, we are actually in fact the same people. |
| 0:48.0 | We just love books and taking baths, I feel like. |
| 0:51.0 | Yes, yes. |
| 0:52.0 | All of the elderly things that we love that we enjoy. |
| 0:56.7 | The grandmotherly task. Yes. So that's why I am super excited to have you here. I'm also |
| 1:02.4 | excited because I think the conversation we're about to have with our guest is a really special one. |
| 1:07.0 | Nernet is a show where we talk to your favorite or soon to be favorite people and our guest this week is glory edam glory is the |
| 1:14.7 | well-read black girl and yeah for people who don't know about well-read black |
| 1:19.2 | girl this started as an inside joke right yeah her partner actually bought her a t-shirt |
| 1:25.7 | that said, Well Red Black Girl, and when she was on the train |
| 1:30.5 | and walking around in New York. |
| 1:32.5 | Basically everybody was stopping her and asking her about it. |
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