Nefertiti Greene is the owner of SOSOADAE, a publishing house for fiction that disrupts our anti-Black literary imagination.
Since 2014, Nefertiti has served as an advocate for women, military veterans, neuro-diversity, and Black Justice under her SOSO ADAE, L3C brand.
Her activities during this time include bringing 2016 senatorial candidates to Black community leaders in Phoenix; speaking with Rep. Raul Grijalva about kickstarting H.R. 40 in Congress; and traveling to The University of the U.S Virgin Islands (our Caribbean HBCU in the USVI) in 2018 to document the first full year of classes following the devastation of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
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See also: Advocacy: Our 2016 Lookbook
See also: Diversity & Inclusion: Why Black Children Are Not A Protected Class
Nefertiti has presented on anti-Blacknesss in literary imagination at The Council for Black Studies in Atlanta, GA, and petitioned for instructor and administrator accountability at the University of Arizona to, include a “UA Black Futures Initiative” to decolonize the university curriculum.
When it comes to creating space for herself and others in the world, Nefertiti has put her money where her mouth is.
She currently lives in Arizona and enjoys powerlifting, game-show trivia (Jeopardy!/Best Ever Trivia Show/The Chase), CBS reality TV (The Amazing Race), and American Ninja Warrior. She is presently completing a long-form “historical” fiction that uses the American white supremacist literary device Manichaean Leitmotif in an ironic way.
“As an undiagnosed autistic, I found ways to effectively disrupt and balance social pattern-matching with personal authenticity— without making excuses for anti-blackness—resulting in my ability to isolate and identify a story development method that has drastically improved the quality of my fiction writing with regard to what is empathetic, compelling, and meaningful and allows me to think through any story-writing problems that come up and that ‘natural talent’ cannot overcome.”
Presentations:
- Jinsi ya SOSOADAE: Using Fiction to Form The World
- Darkness Is Not A Feeling: Writing Without Racism
Series:
- How to Write a Story (About A Paper Cup)
- What is African dramatic form (ADF)?
- How We Talk About “The Dark”: A DEI Resource…
- How to Write A Story: Jinsi ya Kutunga Simulizi