Founded in 2015, 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.
Connect
We believe in building community. We strive to facilitate safe spaces for Black women specifically and people of color in general to nerd out about the things that interest them, critique the things they love, and create their own transformative and original works.
Cultivate
We believe in gassing people up. Through discussions of pop culture and fandom, we encourage people to find the holes in media that they would like to fill. We edit and provide spaces for Black people to publish their work online, be they essays, critiques and reviews, or fan fiction.
Build
We believe in doing The Most™. We not only encourage others, but personally and professionally strive to always grow and expand not only our worldviews but our artistic purpose.
Bayana Davis, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Bayana is a writer and content creator born and raised in Oakland, California. She is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Black Girls Create and cohost of the #WizardTeam podcast. She is a fierce advocate of critical fandom, the increased representation of Black women in media, time travel, dragons, and avoiding the AI apocalypse. You can generally find her fangirling and agonizing about writing on Twitter at @yana_hallows.
Robyn Jordan, Co-Founder & Chief Community Officer
Robyn has been a nerd since her first Scholastic school fair. Once she discovered the Harry Potter series, nothing was the same for her or the people around her. Robyn is a true California girl, born and raised all over Southern California. She now lives in Oakland, but will always make it home to San Diego for Comic-Con and tacos. Her favorite things include playing vinyl records in dark rooms, browsing city library shelves, sporadic marathons of Star Trek, and preparing for the robot takeover. You can find her live-tweeting TV on Twitter @robyn_ravenclaw.
Constance Gibbs, Managing Editor
Connie is a writer, editor, podcaster, epic tweeter, and all-around TV junkie living in NYC. She is currently a writer for an educational children’s magazine. She dabbles in photography and occasional freelance writing. Connie is most often found tweeting about her favorite TV shows and pop culture from her hobbit hole that looks an awful lot like Hufflepuff House. She also probably has 37 tabs open. She should close at least one of them. Follow her on Twitter and most places: @ConStar24.
Delia Gallegos, Marketing Director
Delia has been a nerd longer than she has known the meaning of the word. Texas-born and raised, she’s a writer, an off-key singer, and journal enthusiast. When she’s not lamenting the lack of Ravenclaw representation in the Wizarding World, Delia enjoys nerding out over K-Dramas, Jane Austen, Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, and anime. You can nerd out with her on Twitter @DeliaDumbledore.
Porshèa Patterson-Hurst, Director of Strategic Partnerships
Porshèa is a Tennessee-raised Ravenclaw living in NYC who can’t get enough out of sparkly things, reading, fandoms, intersectional feminism, and research — it’s also her day job. She is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Black Girls Create, volunteers with the Harry Potter Alliance, and co-hosts @CastleBlackPod. Follow her on Twitter: @Porshea_obvi.
Nicole Hill, Community Manager
Nicole is a writer who utilizes her craft to escape to imagined worlds. She writes about her passions which include—art, books, film, games, music, and television. Currently, she runs her blog Black TARDIS, a Doctor Who blog where she writes about the show from her Black, queer, female perspective. She’s been featured on panels at conventions such as Gallifrey One and podcasts such as Reality Bomb and Black Girls Create’s own Who Watch: Time and Relative Blackness in Space. In her free time she also runs her general blog—DELETE THIS WHEN I’M DEAD.
Deborah Winfield, Newsletter Curator
Deborah is a ghost. A spectre. A figment of your imagination. She cannot be contained by the boundaries of the 26 shapes formed to make what you would call words. Trying to capture her essence in one paragraph is like trying to catch smoke. Trying to catch smoke with your bare hands.