Takeisha Parks is the former educator and blogger behind The Blerd Library, an online space that discusses and highlights QT+BIPOC speculative fiction as a foundation for reimaging our reality and Black futures. She has curated speculative fiction panel programming for Kinfolk Lit, moderates panels in both book- and comic-specific spaces, publishes reviews, and interviews authors, academics, and creatives. She also co-hosts a live podcast, The Pink Riot Comic Show, that highlights marginalized creators in comics and pop culture. Her mission is to help people love and appreciate QTBIPoC speculative fiction as a tool for reimaging and reshaping our current reality into a more inclusive and healed world. Social anxiety is her life-long nemesis.