SEASON 03, EPISODE 01: A Whole New World
Influence starts as an inside job. For season three of The BLK IRL Podcast, Anuli explores how Black people create worlds for ourselves through our creative work and everyday rituals where we are reflected, represented, and ultimately respected.
For the first episode of Season 3, BLK IRL producer and host, Anuli Akanegbu, shares where she’s been over the past year and offers a sneak peek of what to expect this season.
Featured speaker: anuli akanegbu
Anuli Akanegbu (Pronounced: Ah-noo-lee A-ka-nay-boo, she/her/hers) is the creator, producer, and host of BLK IRL®. Professionally, Anuli is a scholar-practitioner and freelance marketing consultant whose life and work are nourished by curiosity and connection. As a Ph.D. candidate in the sociocultural anthropology department at New York University (NYU), she is currently working on a multi-method and multimodal dissertation project that embeds the everyday embodied experiences of Black social media content creators and “influencers” in Atlanta, GA into a larger cultural analysis of “work/life interface,” or the increasingly blurred boundaries between professional work and personal life. Follow Anuli online at www.anuliwashere.com and @anuliwashere.
Referenced Materials
Walker, Alice. “In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens.” In Within the Circle : An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present, edited by Angelyn Mitchell, 401-409. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.