Black Girl Nerds Podcast

Dillon Stevenson performed stand-up at New York Comedy Club, Broadway Comedy Club, Comix at Foxwoods, and Gotham Comedy Club & other venues in NYC. He’s written, directed, and performed in sketch shows off Broadway and at benefits and events throughout the city. @theDiLLon1 Gordon Baker-Bone is a stellar comedian who is regularly booked for shows all over the East Coast. . He frequently performs, produces, and hosts his own shows at clubs such as Stress Factory Comix at Foxwoods. @BakerBone John Minus is a comedian, writer, and all-around great guy who lives and breathes his home state of New Jersey. Eschewing traditional Black Comedian tropes, John wants to re-invent the image of the Black Comic. He's performed at Broadway Comedy Club, Comix at Foxwoods, & Greenwich Comedy Club among others. @DonCoyote Mike Brown is a comedian and writer from Harlem, New York. He’s performed at Caroline’s Comedy Club, Stand Up NY, Laugh Lounge, EastVille Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club as well as Sirius XM. He

We have guests Shareef Jackson and Danielle Lee discuss all things Science! If you're a Science geek as well as a fan of the hit primetime series Cosmos, then this is the show for you! Shareef Jackson: Shareef views on science and technology have been featured on sources such as NPR, Scientific American, NASA TV, and This Week in Blackness. His science blog at ShareefJackson.com has won the Black Weblog Award for Best Science and Technology Blog in 2012 and 2013. By using the tagline #ScienceLooksGood, Shareef speaks breaks down science in a way that the average person can understand. Shareef has been able to attend several events including the Consumer Electronics Show and the final launch of NASA’s space shuttle program. Danielle Lee: Danielle is an American biologist. Lee completed her BS in Animal Sciences at Tennessee Technological University, her MS in Vertebrate Zoology at University of Memphis, and her PhD in Biology at University of Missouri-St. Louis. Lee is currently doing post-doctorate res

We will visit the topic of an online community in social media referred to as "Black Twitter" Black Twitter is a cultural identity on Twitter that is a collective of African-American users. We have a panel of prominent social media personalities to discuss the advent of Black Twitter and what the term means. We will also discuss the profound effect Black Twitter has had on the mainstream media and how it works to amplify marginalized voices.

The AfroFuturist Affair is a community formed to celebrate, strengthen, and promote Afrofuturistic and Black sci-fi culture through creative events, community workshops, blogging, and creative writing. The Afrofuturist Affair uses proceeds from events to fund the Futurist Fund Community Grant. The AfroFuturist Affair is a founding member of Metropolarity.net, a 215 Speculative Fiction Collective. R. Phillips is a Philadelphia public interested attorney, speculative fiction writer, the creator of The AfroFuturist Affair, and a founding member of Metropolarity.net. She recently independently published her first speculative fiction collection, Recurrence Plot (and Other Time Travel Tales).

Dissatisfied with the complete lack of empowered women of color in Hollywood's superhero pantheon, Maya Glick decided to take matters into her own hands and fill in that blank herself with a bold new take on her favorite X-Men character: Ororo Munroe, best known as Storm. She joined us to discuss her project currently production as well as this refreshing take on the punk Storm.

Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History This all-original anthology, edited by authors Older and Fox, expands the focus of Anglophone speculative fiction beyond protagonists who are white, straight, cisgender, and male. The narrative highlights 27 selections from various authors. Rose Fox is a compulsive magazine editor with a lifelong love of genre fiction. Credits include: reviews editor for Publishers Weekly, co-host of Publishers Weekly Radio, editor-at-large for #24MAG, and dissociative editor of the Annals of Improbable Research. Daniel José Older is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor and composer. Salsa Nocturna, Daniel's debut ghost noir collection, was hailed as "striking and original" by Publishers Weekly. He facilitates workshops on storytelling, music, and anti-oppression organizing at public schools, community organizations, and universities.

Holland and Akeem are vloggers for the popular nerd-centric website Geek & Sundry. Geek & Sundry is a commerical YouTube channel and multimedia company started by Felicia Day. Holland and Akeem have their own independent channels where they do movie reviews, comment on geek culture, and travel to cons all over the country. Sarah Rodriguez who also works for Geek & Sundry and is the founder of Nerdy B Flirty also appeared as a guest.

Dr. Sheena Howard will appear to discuss the representation of race in comic books as well as representation of the LGBT community in comics. Dr. Howard is the author of the book, BLACK COMICS: POLITICS OF RACE AND REPRESENTATION.

Inspired by the #GeekEChat led by the 7th Matrix, we are doing a show soley dedicated to our favorite villains and foes! We will talk about the best and worst of all time, and also what are the personality traits that make up a great villain? If you love the bad guys and bad girls this is one show you cannot miss!

The season finale has arrived and we will recap the first season of this show that has blown us all away and impressed nerds everywhere! If you are a Sleepy Hollow fan and need an extra dose of the hotness that is this supernatrual series, do not miss this podcast!

We will have a panel of tabletop players who are into D&D tabletop games, LARPing, and digital RPGs! Our panel includes Quinn Murphy, Kyle, Misha, Anji, and Laura Simpson. We will discuss table top gaming and popular games in the nerd community as well as blerd players and the role of diversity in digital and table top gaming. Nerdy RPG kids are welcome to this show!

Of Music And Men is an American television comedy-drama created by Kayona Ebony Brown that chronicles the life of a young, single, female entrepreneur and her experiences with men as she tries to succeed in the music business and in love, all while navigating the most unlikely town for either: Washington, DC. Join us as we discuss her new Kickstarter methods of getting this project funded and tips to how you can do the same thing for your own project!

Are you a comic book geek? Do you prefer Marvel or DC or both? This podcast will feature our BGN co-hosts to chat with us about our favorite comic books as well as the representation of women in comic books.

Did you love our Cartoonmania podcast? We talked about Robotech, Samurai Pizza Cats, and Pinky & The Brain! We've decided to do a part 2! We will chat about all of our favorite nostalgic cartoons of the 80s and 90s, as well as new cartoons of today! If you love geeking out over all things animated, then this is the show for you!

Makeda DeJene aka Grim Phreaker runs http://www.zombiegameronline.com/ which reviews games, comics and posts on happenings within the geek culture. She will chat with us to discuss how and why she created the site and how the culture of gaming has evolved and changed over the years.

Do you have to like comic books to be classified as a "nerd"? Do you have to be an avid gamer or cosplayer? What are the qualifiers of nerdiness and should there be? We will discuss the controversy of what truly consitutues nerdiness and why nerds feel the need to be loyal to specific aspects of nerd culture in order to be deemed "nerdworthy" Yes, we just made that word up. Tune in!

Believe it or not there are Black female filmmakers who are creating horror films and have an eminent voice in the horror film community. Tananarive Due and Kristina Leath-Malin will be our guests as we discuss gender and race disparities in the horror film genre as well as current projects both filmmakers are working on and their mission to spread the word that Black women are making horror films!

Horror academic nerd and Freddy Krueger enthusiast, Ashlee Blackwell will discuss on this episode all things horror! She is the author of the website http://quirksandsplatters.com/, graveyardshiftsisters.blogspot.com, and she also hosts the Women In Horror Month Official Podcast, and is our resident black girl nerd expert in horror movies! We will celebrate Halloween just a little early with this SCARY horror movie podcast! This is one you do not want to miss!

GeekGirlCon celebrates and honors the legacy of women contributing to science and technology; comics, arts, and literature; and game play and game design by connecting geeky women world-wide and creating community to foster continued growth of women in geek culture through events. Attendees Rachel Brody and Jaz will be featured on the podcast to provide us up-to-the-minute information about the event and how important this con is for nerdy girls.

Toni Carey and Ashley Hicks created Black Girls RUN! in an effort to tackle the growing obesity epidemic in the African-American community and provide encouragement and resources to both new and veteran runners. The mission of Black Girls RUN! is to encourage African-American women to make fitness and healthy living a priority.