Talented Tuesdays: Ariel C. Williams

It's Talented Tuesday! Each week, For Nerdy Girls features a digital innovator who inspires colorful women around the world. These are individuals who should be celebrated on a global level, so we'll start by talking about these changemakers right here.

Name: Ariel C. Williams

Twitter: @ArielSaysNow

Website: arielcwilliams.com

What she does: Ariel is a writer, blogger, and author of The Girl Talk Chronicles: Advice on How to Manage Love, Lust & Situations.

Why she's inspiring: Ariel writes for Slay Culture™, a website that "exists to encourage, uplift and celebrate black and brown women who meet the status quo of being their best in everything they do", with a mission to "to continuously strengthen the sisterhood amongst millenial women of color through authentic storytelling that sparks transformative dialogue."

Amaze-balls!



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Talented Tuesdays: Amy Lieu

It's Talented Tuesday! Each week, For Nerdy Girls features a digital innovator who inspires colorful women around the world. These are individuals who should be celebrated on a global level, so we'll start by talking about these changemakers right here.

Name: Amy Lieu

Twitter: @amylieumedia

Website: about.me/amylieu

What she does: Amy is a host, creator, news reporter, and journalist:

Why she's inspiring: In addition to the fact that she seems to have mastered more social media platforms than I've ever heard of, Amy is making a difference by empowering Asian Americans and women through her talk show, #AmyLieuPresents. She also speaks Chinese and Spanish, respectively the first and second most widely spoken languages in the world. ¡Ni hao, Amy! 



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The Mr. J List - Podcasts

Another Round

Black Girl Nerds

Black Girls Talking

The Black Guy who Tips

The Call-in

Call Your Girlfriend

FriendsLikeUs

girl on guy

Last Name Basis

The Read

The Mr. J List - Web Series

Black Actress

Christine

Get Your Life

Hello Cupid

Lisa and Amy are Black

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Pursuit of Sexiness

Roomieloverfriends

The Unwritten Rules

Words with Girls

The Mr. J List - Film

24-Hour Love

35 and Ticking

Abducted: The Carlina White Story

About Last Night

Act Like You Love Me

Addicted

Akeelah and the Bee

All You've Got

And Then Came Love

And Then There Was You

Angel Eyes

Annie (2014)

Another Cinderella Story

The Associate

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Away We Go

B-Girl

B*A*P*S

Back to School Mom

The Back-up Plan

Baggage Claim

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever

Beauty Shop

Before Women Had Wings

Belle

Beloved

Bend It Like Beckham

Bessie

The Best Man

The Best Man Holiday

Beyond the Lights

The Bodyguard

Boogie Town

Booty Call

Boricua

The Boy Next Door

Bride & Prejudice

Bring It On: Fight to the Finish

Bringing Down the House

Brown Sugar

Burglar

California Winter

Camp Rock

Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam

Carmen: A Hip Hopera

Carmen Jones

Catwoman

The Cell

Chasing Papi

The Cheetah Girls

The Cheetah Girls 2

The Cheetah Girls: One World

A Christmas Blessing

Christmas Cupid

Cinderella (1997)

Clara's Heart

Claudine

College Road Trip

Colombiana

The Color Purple

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Constellation

Cora Unashamed

Corinna, Corinna

Could This Be Love

The Courage to Love

CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story

Daddy's Little Girls

A Day Late and a Dollar Short

Dear White People

D.E.B.S.

Deliver Us from Eva

The Dempsey Sisters

Diary of a Mad Black Woman

A Diva's Christmas Carol

Divas

Dreamgirls

Dreams

Drumline: A New Beat

Dysfunctional Friends

Eddie

Enough

Enter the Dangerous Mind

Eraser

Eve's Bayou

Fanaddict

Fatal Beauty

Feast of All Saints

Feel the Noise

Filly Brown

Flashdance

For Colored Girls*

For One Night

Forbidden Woman

Frankie & Alice

Frenemies

From Prada to Nada

From This Day Forward

The Gabby Douglas Story

Getaway

Getting Played

Gigli

Gimme Shelter

Girlfriends' Getaway

Girlhood

Glitter

Go For It!

The Good Life

Gothika

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

High School Musical

High School Musical 2

High School Musical 3

Hollywood Chaos

Home

Honey

Honey 2

Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story

Hope for Love

Hot Pursuit

A House Divided

House of Flying Daggers

How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

I Can Do Bad All By Myself

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The Ideal Husband

I'm in Love with a Church Girl

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

Into the Blue

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Jackie's Back!

The Jacksons: An American Dream

The Josephine Baker Story

The Joy Luck Club

Joyful Noise

Jump In!

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Jumping the Broom

Jury of Our Peers

Just Wright

Kingdom Come (2001)

Lady Sings the Blues

Last Holiday

The Last Letter

Lila & Eve

Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story

The Loretta Claiborne Story

Love and Basketball

Love... & Other 4 Letter Words

The Love Letter

Love Song

Mad Money

Made in America

Mahogany

Maid in Manhattan

Mama Flora's Family

Mama I Want to Sing

Man of Her Dreams

The Marriage Chronicles

Marry Me for Christmas

Medicine for Melancholy

Meet the Browns

Memoirs of a Geisha

Mississippi Masala

Monster-in-Law

Monster's Ball

Monte Carlo (2011)

My Favorite Five

My Girlfriend's Back

My Sister's Wedding

No Good Deed

Not Easily Broken

Our Family Wedding

Our Song

Out of Sight

Pariah

The People I've Slept With

The Perfect Holiday

Perfect Stranger

The Piano Lesson

The Pregnancy Project

Poetic Justice

Polly: Comin' Home!

Porgy and Bess

The Preacher's Wife

Precious

The Princess and the Frog

Princess Protection Program

Queen

Queen of the Damned

A Raisin in the Sun

Real Women Have Curves

The Rich Man's Wife

Romeo Must Die

The Rosa Parks Story

Sarafina!

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

Saving Face

The Secret Life of Bees

Selena

Set It Off

Shake It Up!

She's Not Our Sister

The Single Moms Club

Sister Act

Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Sleeping with the Fishes

Snowglobe

Somebody's Child

Something New

Soul Food

Sparkle (1976)

Sparkle (2012)

Speechless

The Split

Spy Kids

Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D

Steel Magnolias (2012)

Stompin' at the Savoy

Suddenly Single

The Sweetest Gift

Taxi

Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Theodore Rex

A Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Things Never Said

Think Like a Man

Think Like a Man Too

This Christmas

Three Can Play that Game

Ties That Bind

Twitches

Twitches Too

Two Can Play that Game

Volver

Waiting to Exhale

Walkout

The Watsons Go to Birmingham

The Wedding

The Wedding Planner

Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior

What about Your Friends: Weekend Getaway

What's Love Got to Do with It

What Would You Do for Love?

Whitney

Why Did I Get Married?

Why Did I Get Married Too?

With This Ring

The Wiz

A Woman Called Moses

The Women of Brewster Place

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Woman Thou Art Loosed

Won't Back Down

Woo

Yes, We're Open

The Mr. J List - Television

1-800-MISSING

227

Abby

All of Us

All-American Girl

Amen

Are We There Yet?

Being Mary Jane

Black-ish

Cashmere Mafia

The Chicago Code

City of Angels

'Da Kink in My Hair

Dark Angel

Death in Paradise

Deception

Diary of a Single Mom

A Different World

Dora the Explorer

Doc McStuffins

East Los High

Eastwick

Elementary

Empire

Eve

Extant

The First Family

For Better or Worse

For Your Love

The Game

Getting Personal

Gimme A Break!

Girlfriends

Good Times

Grey's Anatomy

Half & Half

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

The Haves and the Have Nots

Hawthorne

Hit the Floor

How to Get Away with Murder

Instant Mom

The Jeffersons

Jane the Virgin

Julia

K.C. Undercover

The L Word

Let's Stay Together

Life with Boys

Like Family

Lincoln Heights

Lipstick Jungle

Living Single

Love that Girl!

Marry Me

Meet the Browns

The Mindy Project

Minority Report

Moesha

The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

On Our Own

One on One

Out All Night

The Parkers

Proof

The Proud Family

Quantico

Reed Between the Lines

Rhythm & Blues

Scandal

Scream Queens

Second Time Around

Sherri

Single Ladies

Sister, Sister

Sleepy Hollow

Some Girls

Sonny with a Chance

Soul Food

State of Georgia

Taina

That's My Mama

That's So Raven

Thea

True Jackson, VP

Ugly Betty

Vixen

Wanda at Large

Wanda Does It

Whoopi

For Nerdy Girls: The Mr. J List

from Ava DuVernay's Instagram account

(Left to right: Shonda Rhimes, Ava DuVernay, Mara Brock-Akil, Debbie Allen, Issa Rae)

Are you looking for TV shows, movies, web series, or podcasts starring colorful women? Here is a sample of titles that make The Mr. J List!

Also, here is Women and Hollywood's list of 84 Films By and About Women of Color motivated by Ava DuVernay's call to action on Twitter.

If you'd like to add a title to The Mr. J List, then please leave a message in the comments, or tweet tweet us on Twitter at @mahlenasguide.

(Updates found on each genre's page: Television, Film, Web Series, Podcasts)


TELEVISION

1-800-MISSING

227

Abby

All of Us

All-American Girl

Are We There Yet?

Being Mary Jane

Black-ish

Cashmere Mafia

...



FILM

35 and Ticking

Akeelah and the Bee

And Then Came Love

The Associate

The Back-up Plan

Baggage Claim

B*A*P*S

Beauty Shop

Before Women Had Wings

Belle

Beloved

Bend It Like Beckham

Bessie

Beyond the Lights

The Bodyguard

Booty Call

Bringing Down the House

Brown Sugar

Carmen: A Hip Hopera

Catwoman

The Cell

Chasing Papi

Clara's Heart

Claudine

Colombiana

The Color Purple

Corinna, Corinna

CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story

...



WEB SERIES

Black Actress

Hello Cupid

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

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PODCASTS

Another Round

Black Girls Talking

Friends Like Us

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