Musings from an Ivy League Homegirl

Sofia Quintero

Sofia Quintero
Location
New York, New York, U. S.
Birthday
September 05
Title
President
Company
Sister Outsider Entertainment
Bio
Sofía Quintero is the author of several novels and short stories that cross genres. Born into a working-class Puerto Rican-Dominican family in the Bronx, the self-proclaimed “Ivy League homegirl” earned a BA in history-sociology from Columbia University in 1990 and her MPA from the university's School of International and Public Affairs in 1992. After years of working on a range of policy issues from multicultural education to HIV/AIDS, she decided to pursue career that married arts and activism. Under the pen name Black Artemis, she wrote the hip hop novels Explicit Content, Picture Me Rollin’ and Burn. Sofía is also the author of the novel Divas Don’t Yield and contributed novellas to the “chica lit” anthologies Friday Night Chicas and Names I Call My Sister. As an activist, she co-founded Chica Luna Productions (chicaluna.com), a nonprofit organization that seeks to identify, develop and support women of color who wish to create socially conscious entertainment. She is also the president of Sister Outsider Entertainment, a multimedia production company that produces quality entertainment for multicultural audiences. Sofía is presently working on her first young adult novel Efrain’s Secret which will be published by Knopf in 2009. To learn more about Sofia and her work, visit blackartemis.com, sisteroutsider.biz or .myspace.com/sofiaquintero.

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AUGUST 26, 2008 12:55PM

48 Laws of Oppression*

Wanting to stay in the know about the things that capture hip hop’s imagination, I seek out The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene on my latest trip to the bookstore. After I fail in my attempt to locate the book on my own, I enlist the help of a… Read full post »

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AUGUST 19, 2008 10:47AM

To Snitch With Love

“Hell, yeah, I’d give you up!”

 

I laugh even though I know he’s serious.  Maybe it’s because Pa’s answer to my question doesn’t surprise me. The average person would be horrified to learn that if she committed murder, her father would turn her int/… Read full post »

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AUGUST 15, 2008 1:07PM

How Do You Come Out When You're Not Gay

“Are your parents coming to the show?”

 

Someone needs to write a book on how to come out when you’re not gay.  The catalog of books for White folks interested in promoting racial justice grows each day, and there are a some titles geared toward men committed to gender equ/… Read full post »

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AUGUST 14, 2008 1:35PM

A (Feminist) Job for Tyrese

Lately, I’ve been inspired to explore the “ride or die chick” archetype. According to the best rated definition in the Urban Dictionary, this is “a chick that ain’t afraid to be down with her man, she’ll do anything her man needs her to do.”

  

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AUGUST 13, 2008 9:03AM

Dodging Snagglepuss

I walk into the bodega for my cafecito looking forward to my day when there he is. Snagglepuss.  That’s what I call him. Not that he knows that, but if he keeps harassing me, he just might find out.

 

Snagglepuss is a tubby, not-quite-menacing-yet-not-quite-comforting, gap-toothed dud… Read full post »

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