Nerd black girl

Try being a black girl on top of that. Sure, mainstream culture has its ways of portraying nerd-dom as trendy and cool hello, The Big Bang Theory , but this treatment is generally reserved for men … most often white men. Is there something wrong with me? Ashlee Blackwell has created Graveyard Shift Sisters , a growing community for black women who are into horror.

Growing up, Alexis Hancock was obsessed with the astronaut Mae Jemison , the first black woman to travel in space. But with her head in space, Hancock also felt isolated and alone back in the real world. I was just sorta ignored, I guess. In the months that followed the breakout performance of Letitia Wright as Shuri, audiences were introduced to even more smart, capable black women. Meanwhile, offscreen, black actor Noma Dumezweni wowed Broadway audiences — and snagged a Tony nomination — with her portrayal of the wizarding brainiac Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Still, the current pop culture moment feels long overdue.

Jamie Broadnax couldn't have expected, that night in when she first googled the term "Black Girl Nerds," that five years later, she'd be flying up from her home in Virginia to cover the Toronto International Film Festival. And even if that international trip -- her first -- was somewhere in the back of her mind, there's no way she could have expected to be making the trip with the financial backing of the creators and filmmakers behind some of her favorite movies and TV shows. And yet, because that initial Google query came up empty, and because Broadnax has devoted the last half-decade to building up the site and community she founded to correct that search engine injustice, she's right now in Canada, doing interviews and live-tweeting the action to her more than , fans. I reached out them for a simple retweet; I never expected that they'd actually give us money to help us get out there. It is exceedingly rare for a big-time creator in Hollywood to actively and independently push for a member of the press to attend an event, let alone pay for it.

Black Girl Nerds is a podcast and place where girls of our ilk can express themselves freely and embrace who they are. This is not a show exclusively for Black women, but it is a show exclusively for Nerds! The end of each episode provides information on each of our social networks and a preview to the next week's podcast topic. Listen on Apple Podcasts.