In 2014, Broadnax was accredited by
MSNBC's
TheGrio 100.[11] 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]). In an October 2015 guest appearance on
Melissa Harris-Perry, Broadnax talked about diversity in comics at
New York Comic Con.[12] She has also co-hosted the Misty Knight's Uninformed Afro podcast about black
superheroines,[13] 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?".[14][15]
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] stepping 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.[16] 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]