Black Girls Create is a unique intersectional hub for Black creators and critical fandom. Through substantive but easily accessible content, we encourage fans to celebrate and critique pop culture while also advocating for and contributing to the increased media representation of Black women specifically, and people of color in general.

Black Girls Create is a unique intersectional hub for Black creators and critical fandom. Through substantive but easily accessible content, we encourage fans to celebrate and critique pop culture while also advocating for and contributing to the increased media representation of Black women specifically, and people of color in general.

Featured Creator

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.

Kuumba Kickback: Black Girls, Fantasy Worlds

We spoke with debut fantasy authors Roseanne A. Brown, Namina Forna, Jordan Ifueko, Tracy Deonn, Bethany C. Morrow, Nandi Taylor, and Kalynn Bayron about their upcoming books, fantasy, and what

The We Black and Nerds blog is a space that works to be representative of our realities and experiences as a way to counter the ones largely depicted in the mainstream. The blog hosts 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 delves into different aspects of critical fandom.

16Apr

My Heaven is a Republic

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

Hogwarts BSU is a fan fiction project that asks Black Potterheads to imagine what it’s like to be Black in the Wizarding World. Read stories of Black students at Hogwarts, Black businesses in the Potterverse, and Black Wizard History.

19May
Hogwarts BSU

The Houses of Zabini

Adriana Zabini only killed two of her husbands, so far, thank you. (Not that you can prove it.) And she has raised a wonderful son. A story about Adriana and

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