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Blerd City Celebrated Black Nerds, and Emotions Ran High

(Photo: Shannon Barbour)

(Photo: Shannon Barbour)

Blerd City Con, the comic conference for black nerdom, came to four venues across Dumbo this weekend. Sci-fi and fantasy short films were showcased at Automatic Studios to an intimate crowd of conference attendees, directors and producers. One film featured Sterling K. Brown running from an alien invasion and another featuring Frankie Faison as a zombie about to eat his granddaughter, which has been included in “The Black Horror Revolution.” Down the street there were cosplay and martial arts panels as well as an especially emotional panel on being a black woman in the comic industry.

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Spread the Blerd: Black Nerds Get a Con of Their Own

(Photo courtesy of Blerd City Con)

Black nerds unite!

There’s no shortage of black nerds a.k.a. blerds and there’s a bunch of black writers, actors, and artists, but there’s definitely a lack of representation in popular nerd cultureit’s been 19 years since Marvel has made a new film with a black protagonistand in conventions. That’s where Clairesa Clay and Blerd City Con come in.

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