WRITING ABOUT CULTURE: A Conversation with Angelica Jade Bastién and Shamira Ibrahim Wednesday, March 22, 12.30-1.30, on Zoom! (register below) [cid:image001.png@01D957F6.F5C85AE0] You’re invited to a lively, informal conversation with cultural critics Angelica Jade Bastién and Shamira Ibrahim! Come with questions about writing about pop culture and careers in arts journalism. Angelica Jade Bastién is an essayist and critic. She is a staff writer for Vulture and has written for New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Republic, Vanity Fair, Vox, the Independent, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Her commentary has been featured in Criterion DVD releases, the We Hate Movies podcast and HBO’s Station Eleven podcast, and a recent documentary on Marilyn Monroe. Angelica has longstanding interests in horror, madness, Bette Davis, and Keanu Reeves. She is from Miami and lives in Chicago. Shamira Ibrahim is a Brooklyn-based culture writer by way of Harlem, Canada, and East Africa, who explores identity, cultural production and technology via a race critical code framework as a critic, reporter, and essayist, with a particular emphasis on francophone accessibility in the anglophone Black diaspora. Her work has been featured in publications such as New York Magazine, Essence, The Atlantic, The New York Times, NPR, Teen Vogue, OkayAfrica, The Baffler and Harper’s Bazaar. In 2020 she was named as an honoree on OkayAfrica’s annual “One Hundred Women” list, celebrating women who are “building infrastructure, both literally and metaphorically, for future generations in Africa and in the Diaspora.” She currently manages a bilingual column, Négritude, for Amaka Studio, a digital media publisher for the African diaspora, paired with curated Francophone playlists. Register in advance for this meeting: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__us02web.zoom.us_meeting... After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.