Jamie Broadnax

CTL-E-6192 · Person · writer · 2012–present (Black Girl Nerds)

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Combined Graph record U-07390 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6192.

Jamie Broadnax is an American writer, podcaster, and the creator of Black Girl Nerds, the online publication and multimedia space she founded in February 2012 for Black women and other nerdy women of color. Blogging since 2007, she created the site the same evening a search for the phrase 'Black Girl Nerds' returned nothing, reasoning that if no space existed for women like her, she would build one. In a 2013 interview she described Black Girl Nerds as an inclusive fellowship around geek fandoms — comics, anime, cosplay, technology, and popular culture — where Black women could be themselves without having their Blackness questioned for their interests. The publication's own author page identifies her as its creator, a member of the Critics Choice Association, and executive producer of the Black Girl Nerds Podcast, and notes her appearance on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show and her place on The Grio's Top 100. Podcast listings show her still hosting and editing the Black Girl Nerds podcast in September 2026, including its 2026 Toronto International Film Festival coverage, more than fourteen years after she founded the community for blerds — Black nerds — to find fellowship.

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 5 — 747 Program, Wave 12; fifth Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): Gate A hand-check (2026-10-16) against live graph (3,843 entities): no 'Jamie Broadnax' or 'Black Girl Nerds' entity by exact name, alias, or token search in entities.json. No home; CTL-E-6192 is new. Supply: Supply: 747 Supply Ledger Tier 4 scan-tail reserve banked by Scan Tail Wave 4, corpus-gap-candidates rank #2213. Ledger supplied the name only; every fact herein is sourced to an opened source (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: 747 Supply Ledger Tier 4 scan-tail reserve, corpus-gap candidate rank #2213, banked by Scan Tail Wave 4; Batch D, Scan Tail Wave 5. Scope: Black media founder who built a durable Black feminist geek-culture publication. Vital status: LIVING — confirmed from dated platform evidence: iHeart's Black Girl Nerds podcast listing shows episodes hosted by Jamie and edited by Jamie Broadnax through Sept. 21, 2026 (accessed 2026-10-16). STATISTICS — Founding (sourced, dated): Black Girl Nerds created February 2012 (Women Write About Comics interview, Oct. 9, 2013). Contributors: 12–13 at the time of that Oct. 2013 interview (same source) — a dated snapshot, not a current count. Longevity: podcast episodes hosted/edited by Broadnax listed through Sept. 21, 2026 (iHeart listing, accessed 2026-10-16), 14+ years after founding. No audience or traffic figure is asserted; none was verified from an opened source in this pass. TIER: Provisional — No independent authoritative institutional source was opened in this pass: the Critics Choice Association member profile (which would supply the institutional leg and her education) failed to load and was not retried, so verification rests on the publication's own author page, a 2013 specialist-press interview, and current podcast platform listings. Education and birth-date claims are therefore omitted, not asserted. MEDIA: photo HELD (HELD — Candidate: portrait of Jamie Broadnax accompanying the Women Write About Comics interview (Oct. 2013). No license claimed, cleared, or verified; slot HELD under CTL-PHOTO-001. — named candidate only; file-level rights verification per CTL-PHOTO-001 still required; no license claimed); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6192-jamie-broadnax.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged); map N/A (person record). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created chart (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced statistics and timeline fact) | video = HELD (CTL Shorts Link Map (2026-10-15) checked by name and variants: no Short whose subject is Jamie Broadnax or Bla) | audio = HELD (HELD — The Black Girl Nerds Podcast is her own program, but CTL holds no rights-cleared matching-entity audio;)

Sources

• Black Girl Nerds, Jamie Broadnax author page (official publication site) (accessed 2026-10-16) — Creator of the online publication and multimedia space for Black women called Black Girl Nerds; appeared on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show; The Grio's Top 100; member of the Critics Choice Association; executive producer of the Black Girl Nerds Podcast — https://blackgirlnerds.com/author/jamie/page/65/ (primary source · build store)
• Women Write About Comics, 'Interview with Black Girl Nerds creator, Jamie Broadnax,' Oct. 9, 2013 (accessed 2026-10-16) — Blogging since 2007; created Black Girl Nerds in February 2012; created it the evening a search for the phrase returned nothing; mission of fellowship for blerds across comics, anime, cosplay and tech fandoms; 12–13 contributors at the time of the interview — https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2013/10/interview-with-black-girl-nerds-creator-jamie-broadnax/ (build store)
• iHeart, Black Girl Nerds podcast listing (accessed 2026-10-16) (accessed 2026-10-16) — Episodes hosted by Jamie and edited by Jamie Broadnax through Sept. 21, 2026, including 2026 Toronto International Film Festival coverage; describes Black Girl Nerds as the intersection of geek culture and Black feminism — https://www.iheart.com/podcast/281-black-girl-nerds-28578530/ (build store)

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