Featured Geek: Elicia Sanchez
[On being a female geek in a male dominated world] “While you think being a female POC who is also a nerd would mean you would have a large group of people that understand on some level what being an outcast or treated differently meant, turns out you still have to fight to even be recognized or allowed in geek circles with predominant male populations just because women make them uncomfortable and patriarchy/institutionalized racism is the only form of power a white male geek can hang onto in a world where he is ridiculed.”
Stand-up comedian Elicia infuses geekdom into her act and writing whenever possible; when you see her perform, there’s a good chance you’ll hear a Star Trek joke or two…or three. She’s been a geek as long as she can remember, reminiscing that she was “reading comics and watching Star Trek as a kid and the fact I was fat, weird and loud and had glasses and braces by the 4th grade didn’t really help.” As an adult, Elicia still obsesses over video games, comic books, and Star Trek, but has relinquished some of her fantasies, noting that she now understands that although she wishes there were dragons, that she’s now old enough to be “glad there really aren’t dragons.” Bonus Elicia trivia: after begging Greg Rucka to feature her making out with one of her favorite gay female DC characters, Rucka wrote her into an issue of DC’s Crime Bible (her character is a high-end prostitute named Elicia that falls in love with Renee Montoya).
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