Black Nerds Create (formerly Black Girls Create) is a collective that provides content through a lens of critical and creative fandom, in order to advocate for and contribute to meaningful representation in media for Black folks specifically, and systemically marginalized people in general.

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Featured Projects

Click on a project or headshot above to learn more. Visit COLLECTIVE to see all of Black Nerds Create past content and programing.

Obsidian Archive

The Obsidian Archive includes blog posts, critical essays, and fan fiction written by Black Girls Create members, contributors, and community from our inception, until our rebrand to Black Nerds Create in 2022. Take a trip through time and peruse through the blog, Critical Companion series for inspiration, nuanced critiques, and wonderful stories!

We Black & Nerds

Black Girls Create blog was a space that worked to be representative of our realities and experiences as a way to counter the ones largely depicted in the mainstream. The blog hosted a variety of commentary on popular culture including book reviews, television and film recaps, personal essays, and our contributor-led series The Critical Companion, a bi-monthly themed project that delved into different aspects of critical fandom.

The Critical Companion

The Beautiful Bossiness of Hermione Granger

Zeena recognizes the Hermione that was in her all along.

The Invitation ‘Black is King’ Gives Us

DJ Wilson reflects on Beyoncé’s film ‘Black is King,’ and the invitation the project gives members of the African diaspora.

Avatar: The Last Airbender Ships are Meant to Be Fun, Not Destructive

Whether you ship canon ships or non-canon ships, it should be a subculture of like fans, not a battlefield of in-fighting. Critical Companion Ebony explores.

Nerd Love in the Time of Social Distancing

How can nerds date during a global pandemic? K. Alexandra offers some tips from her own experiences.

My Heaven is a Republic

Jessie Blount shares her two “spiritual texts” and how they’ve shaped her worldview.

The Importance of Creating Worlds for Young Black Readers

Abisola writes about Children of Blood and Bone and Daughters of Nri, and how they are important for young Black readers.

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Author Spotlight

Author Spotlight: Kristina Forest

Meet author Kristina Forest and get her latest book, Now That I’ve Found You.

Author Spotlight: Kalynn Bayron

Meet author Kalynn Bayron, and get her debut novel Cinderella Is Dead.

Author Spotlight: Roseanne A. Brown

Meet author Roseanne A. Brown, and check out her debut novel A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, with a special excerpt from the novel.

Author Spotlight: Bethany C. Morrow

Meet author Bethany C. Morrow, and check out her debut fantasy novel A Song Below Water.

Author Spotlight: Nandi Taylor

Meet author Nandi Taylor, and check out her debut novel Given.

Author Spotlight: Tracey Baptiste, “The Jumbie God’s Revenge”

Black Girls Create got to speak with author Tracey Baptiste, who wrote The Jumbie God’s Revenge, the last novel in the popular middle grade series beginning with The Jumbies and Rise of the Jumbies.

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Featured Creators

Meet Black women who are creating space and art, learn about their process, and why they believe it is important for Black people to be creators. We feature a new Creator at the beginning of each month.