The Nerdy Black Girl
Celebrating our Favorite topics with a night of Intentional nerdy fun
Founders Event: May 28
Boston, MA
Address: Sent to Waitlist Members
A monthly rotation of BIPOC women speakers who have niche subjects to give a deep dive talk and spread a little community joy.
You got the degree to change the system.
But the system changed you… and not in the good way.
A few "what ifs"
What if the version before the change wasn’t lost?
What if she was just eroded by a system not built with her in mind?
What if the reason none of the books, courses, and retreats worked is not because you are broken — but because identity is not rebuilt alone?
What if you don’t need a drastic move to get her back? What if one evening in one room is what you need to get her back?
What if the institution that made you trade identity for credentials told you just hang in there it will be worth it… to work harder…. raise your hand more and you will feel better?
What if the truth is starting to feel like yourself can start on a random Thursday at 7 PM?
Would you join?
Does this sound Familiar?
You spent years assimilating, performing, and out-achieving.
Now the credentials are in. The accolades are in.
And underneath it all is a woman you have lost track of.
You know how to perform. You don't remember how to be.
You have outsourced your identity to your output, and the bill came due.
Years of being tokenized taught you to make yourself legible before you made yourself whole.
Grind culture taught you that rest, pleasure, and curiosity were the reward, not the foundation.
You were never taught how to come back after the institution was finished with you.
you didn’t stop feeling like you overnight.
You won’t start feeling like you overnight either.
We believe small intentional acts bring about big change.
the kind of change that makes you feel like yourself again.
Imagine a regular gathering where you arrive whole — and everyone in the room can meet you there.
To walk into a room of brilliant BIPOC women and not have to translate yourself once?
To spend two hours not being competent, composed, or impressive — just curious?
To hear another BIPOC woman teach the thing she loves — and remember that you used to love things too?
To leave on a Thursday night with a new name in your contacts or coffee date on the books?
How would it feel, six months from now, to look back and realize you started your identity reclamation journey at one small evening you almost didn’t say yes to?
How it would feel?
The Room
The Nerdy Black Girl
Intentional lecture series for BIPOC women rebuilding identity after assimilation, grind culture, and being the only one in too many rooms. Small acts. Daily liberation. Identity, returned.
What this is
A salon. Not a stage.
The Nerdy Black Girl Lectures is a Boston salon series celebrating intellectual joy for BIPOC women. Brilliant women teach what they know and love. We nerd all the way out. Sisterhood builds while we are at it. Joy gets to be the strategy.
The series is interdisciplinary on purpose. Writers, scientists, physicians, artists, healers, historians, and worldbuilders share the same room and refuse to leave their full selves at the door.
This is not a workshop. Not a panel. Not a networking event. It is a lecture: one brilliant woman, one thesis worth thinking about, and a room of women who came to think with her.
How the room works
01
The room is small.
40-50 seats per volume. We do not pack the room. That is the whole point.
02
Tickets are not always available.
They drop, once a month, to this our email list first. Then tickets go to the public if anything is left.
03
You get one email when the door opens.
We will send a link to preview the lecture topics a few days before tickets go on sale. You’ll want to set your timers so you can grab your ticket before they sale out.
Give yourself Permission.
Just for one Thursday.
What would it look like to give yourself permission to spend Thursday evening on yourself ?
What would it look like to give yourself permission to nerd all the way out — about a book, an idea, a theory, a thing without justifying why it matters?
What would it look like to give yourself permission to be in a room of women without a plan, a pitch, or a polished version of yourself ready to deploy?
What would it look like to give yourself permission to come home messy to a room that was built, on purpose, for you in the middle?
