Black Girl Nerds 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.

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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.