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Season 01, Episode 07: Making It As a “Social Beauty” in Hollywood

In this episode, Anuli talks to Andrea Lewis about her career expansion from acting to now also content creating and producing, the need for more diverse representation on-screen and behind-the-scenes in Hollywood, and how Covid-19 has affected the production of her upcoming feature-length documentary project, “Social Beauty.”

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Season 01, Episode 06: The Memeification of Black women

In this episode, Anuli talks to Dr. Aria Halliday, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and African-American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky about the memeification and commodification of Black women and girls on social media as well as representations of Black women on television.

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Season 01, Episode 05: Get in Loser, We’re Going Viral

In this episode, Anuli talks to Sofiyat Ibrahim (also known online as @TheOdditty), a Washington, DC area based international affairs industry professional and social media influencer about her experience of going viral five times in a span of three months and the misconceptions people have about virality and influencing.

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Season 01, Episode 04: Performing Self-Care Online

In this episode, Anuli talks to Saleam Singleton, a Brooklyn based men’s skincare + beauty advocate and content creator about how he creates boundaries between his online persona, the Method Male, and who he is offline as well as how performing self-care online came to be one of the ways that he honors himself.

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Season 01, Episode 02: A (new) cult of personality

In this episode, Anuli talks to culture writer Shamira Ibrahim about how influencing has become the new cult of personality and how the exploitation of Black people and Black creative labor have become central to the inner workings of Internet culture.

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