Jamie Broadnax
Born (1980-04-24) April 24, 1980 (age 43)
Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S.
OccupationFilm critic, writer
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNorfolk State University (BA)
Regent University (MA)[1]

Jamie Broadnax (born 24 April 1980) is an American film critic, podcaster and writer, known for founding[2] and being editor-in-chief and CEO of the Black Girl Nerds community.[3]

Biography

Broadnax, who has a master's degree in Film and Marketing,[4] and started her career in film, by working on several film shoots in various positions. Broadnax became a film critic,[5] is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association,[6] and as a freelance writer about films has written for numerous publications, including HuffPost,[7] the New York Post,[8] Variety,[9] and Vulture.com.[10]

Broadnax has hosted panel discussions, including the panel at the A Wrinkle in Time premiere and the Sorry to Bother You panel at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.[11] She has also co-hosted the "Misty Knight's Uninformed Afro" podcast about black superheroines,[12] and in April 2017, she co-launched the #NoConfederate hashtag campaign in response to HBO's plan to produce a series - Confederate - with the premise "What if the Confederacy never lost?".[13][14] In an October 2015 guest appearance on the Melissa Harris-Perry TV program, Broadnax talked about diversity in comics and at New York Comic Con.[15]

In 2014, Broadnax was accredited by MSNBC's The Grio 100.[16] She has been described as "one of the biggest up-and-coming names in black-nerd pop culture" (by The Root's Jason Johnson[3]) and as "one of the most important makers of 2016" (by Paste's Shannon M. Houston[4]).

Mid 2018, after co-founding "Universal FanCon"[17] and running a successful Kickstarter campaign for the convention,[18] Broadnax was caught up in the controversy surrounding the convention being cancelled[19] and she then released a public statement[20] and stepped back temporarily from a leadership role to regroup.

Black Girl Nerds

Black Girl Nerds initially started as a Blogspot journal,[21] where Broadnax wrote about various topics, including her own online dating experiences.[22] In 2013, Black Weblog Awards awarded Black Girl Nerds "Best Podcast".[23] The community gradually became more mainstream, in particular after a shout-out by Shonda Rhimes in the September 2014 issue of Marie Claire.[11] In October 2015, HuffPost named Black Girl Nerds one of the leading Black Podcasts.[24] Late 2017, its website had over 200,000 monthly visitors.[21]

See also

References

  1. ^ Howard, Sheena C. (2017). Encyclopedia of Black Comics. Fulcrum Press. ISBN 978-1682751015.
  2. ^ Broadnax, Jamie (27 February 2018). "Why 'A Wrinkle in Time' Is the Movie Girls of Color Need". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  3. ^ a b Johnson, Jason (27 April 2018). "Universal Fan Con A Conversation With Black Girl Nerds' Jamie Broadnax on the Biggest Black Convention That Wasn't". The Root. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  4. ^ a b Houston, Shannon M. (2 February 2016). "Making Black Girl Nerds, And Re-Making TV with Jamie Broadnax". Paste. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Jamie Broadnax Movie Reviews & Previews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  6. ^ "BFCA Member Profile". Broadcast Film Critics Association. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Jamie Broadnax at HuffPost". HuffPost. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Jamie Broadnax at the New York Post". New York Post. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Jamie Broadnax at Variety". Variety. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  10. ^ "Jamie Broadnax at Vulture.com". Vulture.com. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  11. ^ a b Broadnax, Jamie (11 March 2018). "Jamie Broadnax; Creating The Black Girl Nerds Community" (Interview). Interviewed by Rhianna Patrick. ABC Online. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  12. ^ Blanchard, Dave (13 November 2017). "A Lifetime Of Finding Peace, Purpose And Voice In The Pages Of Comics". NPR. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  13. ^ Gonzalez, Sandra (29 July 2017). "#OscarsSoWhite creator wants to stop 'Confederate'". CNN. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  14. ^ Brown, Tessa (13 May 2018). "April Reign at Stanford". Stanford University. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  15. ^ "Melissa Harris-Perry, Transcript 10/11/15". MSNBC. 11 October 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  16. ^ "theGrio's 100: Jamie Broadnax, encouraging black girls to embrace their inner nerd". The Grio. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  17. ^ Kent, Clarkisha (24 April 2018). "It Be Your Own People: On Universal FanCon and the Perversion of Community". The Root. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  18. ^ "Universal Fan Con by Universal Fan Con". Kickstarter. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  19. ^ Shapiro, Lila (7 May 2018). "The Story Behind FanCon's Controversial Collapse". Vulture.com. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  20. ^ "Statement on Universal Fan Con". 21 April 2018.
  21. ^ a b Zakarin, Jordan (12 September 2017). "Black Girl Nerds is building a geek empire from the outside". Syfy. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  22. ^ North, Anna (8 August 2014). "Read This Before You Write Your Dating Profile". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  23. ^ "2013 Black Weblog Awards Winners". Black Weblog Awards. Archived from the original on 5 December 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  24. ^ Blay, Zeba (9 October 2015). "11 Black Podcasts Leading The Golden Age Of Audio". HuffPost. Retrieved 5 January 2019.

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