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Season 01, Episode 09: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE BLACK
In this season finale episode, you will get to hear each of this season's guests share, for the first time ever, their individual responses to the question, "What does it mean to you to be Black?"
Season 01, Episode 08: More Than Just Your Token Black Girl
In this episode, Danielle Prescod and I talk about the beauty and fashion industry’s reaction to last summer’s racial uprising, how she creates boundaries in her online and offline lives, and her plans to leave New York City.
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.
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.
Season 01, Episode 03: So You Want To Become a Professional Influencer?
In this episode, Anuli talks to Qianna Smith Bruneteau, the Founder and Executive Director of the American Influencer Council (AIC), about what it means to be an influencer and why she feels that the influencer marketing industry is in need of stewardship.
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.