The Carcosa Interview: Jamila Rowser

[divider type=”thin”] For our inaugural Carcosa Interview, we were able to sit down and spill virtual mimosas with nerd extraordinaire and blog queen Jamila Rowser, the creator and sole contributor of Girl Gone Geek. She was gracious enough to take time to talk about being an unabashed nerd, her love of trap music and using strength in numbers to combat sexism in geek culture. [divider type=”space_thin”] Black Nerd Problems: You recently celebrated the 4 year blogiversary of Girl Gone Geek. What inspired you to begin this blog four years ago? How has your vision or objective for the blog changed in that time frame? Have you learned anything about yourself or about the nerd community during that time that you weren’t aware of before? Jamila: I wanted to start a blog for a while and since I was already apart of the geek subculture online, I wanted to contribute to it with my blog. I like writing and I couldn’t imagine myself blogging about anything other than geek culture because I have such a strong passion for it. I also started it because I didn’t have many friends that were into geek culture at the time so my blog was a way for me to talk about the stuff I loved. Girl Gone Geek has changed a bit since it launched. I didn’t have a goal when I started my blog; I just hoped that a couple people would read it. So I didn’t have a real plan or strategy, it was more of a “learn as you go” process. [quote_right]”Writing about things also helps me figure out my own opinions and f…