Black Women Are Scary

Tune in for our (early) Final Friday episode with featured author Taiyo Fujii as we speak about family, climate crisis, and why he writes sci-fi. We are honored to have "Becoming Martians" making its U.S. premiere on our podcast. 

Music by Community Education

Join us as we talk about space colonization, Octavia Butler, and what our lives on Mars would be like with Tira Adams, Mistress of the Imaginarium. Featuring flash fiction by Lii Xu.

Music by Community Education

SFX contributions by Private Hell Productions 

Space Sounds by NASA

When the human colony Mars reaches a point of no return, a father must reveal a life changing secret to his son that will transform their family for generations to come.

Written by Taiyo Fujii 

Translated by by Toshiya Kamei 

Performed by Kilusan Bautista

Sound design by Gabe Castro

Black Women Are Scary is now also airing Fridays @ 10pm on WPEB 88.1 FM

Special thanks to: Scribe Video Center, WPEB, Support Our Creatives, Bitches on Comics, The Last Girls Club Magazine, Kathryn Hoist, and The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy in Philadelphia.

Join Shirai and Trent of Nightmare on Fierce Street as they guest host our Final Friday episode. They talk about complicated black female protagonists, annoying family members, and how ghosts can be mean. 

Music by Community Education

Join us as we talk survival, creature features, and what's it like to be the last woman standing with sci-fi and horror film director Eunice Levis. 

Music by Community Education & "Dark Tension Rising" by Mattia Cupelli

SFX contributions by Private Hell Productions 

Diamond can't seem to die. No matter how hard she tries her dead best friend, Aida, won't let her rest until she destroys the monster that ruined their lives. But Diamond is no hero, just a survivor who wants nothing more than to pay her debt to the dead. No matter what it costs her.

Written by Wi-Moto Nyoka

Performed by Makeba Dixon-Hill

Sound design by Gabe Castro

Black Women Are Scary is now also airing Fridays @ 10pm on WPEB 88.1 FM

Special thanks to: Scribe Video Center, WPEB, Support Our Creatives, Bitches on Comics, The Last Girls Club Magazine, Kathryn Hoist, and The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy in Philadelphia.

Join us as we speak with our featured author Shweta Taneja about Indian traditional storytelling, women in sci-fi, and why dolphins. 

Music by Community Education

Join us for our first Flash Fiction episode of season 3 as we speak to Lakase Cousino, founder and editor of The Seelie Crow Magazine, about writing magic to find courage in real life situations, Indian storytelling festivals, and why dolphins. 

Music by Community Education

SFX contributions by Private Hell Productions 

In a near future where all the toddlers are called by the ocean, mothers all over the globe must come together to understand what’s happening to their children or risk losing them forever.

Written by Shweta Taneja

Performed by Joylyn Miller

Additional voices by Gabe Castro and Wi-Moto Nyoka

Sound design by Gabe Castro

Black Women Are Scary is now also airing Fridays @ 10pm on WPEB 88.1 FM

Special thanks to: Scribe Video Center, WPEB, Support Our Creatives, Bitches on Comics, The Last Girls Club Magazine, Kathryn Hoist, and The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy in Philadelphia. 

Thank you for tuning in to Black Women Are Scary. Take a listen to what's on tap for the fall and please consider making a tax deductible contribution here. Your support will go towards production costs for season 3 where we will continue to celebrate BIPOC authors in the genre. See you in the fall!