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ABIOLA ABRAMS is a TV personality, filmmaker and author who gives fun & funky motivational talks. Abiola's debut novel Dare (Simon & Schuster) is the wild adventure of a woman learning to live by her own gutsy rules. For the past two years 28 million viewers throughout the US and Caribbean have tuned in to watch Abiola on BET: interviewing filmmakers on film competition The Best Shorts, as an outspoken, recurring community panelist on My Two Cents, and hosting specials such as All Access. Abiola Abrams’ artistic mini-movies– ranging from edgy 'chick flicks' to socially conscious docs - investigate the themes of gender, race and empowerment, and her directing work includes Knives in My Throat about a spoken word poet dealing with bipolar disorder and Afrodite Superstar, acclaimed feminist erotica. Screened and performed in theaters, museums, galleries and festivals in London, West Africa, Germany, South America, the West Indies and in the US, the goal of all of Abiola's work is to use pop culture entertainment to create uncommon inspiration: culturally, politically, emotionally and sexually. Abiola has BA from Sarah Lawrence and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is an opinionated tastemaker, cheerleader, hip hop feminist, fashionista, cultural critic and all around blabbermouth. She’s every girl’s best friend and every guy’s girlfriend-- based in Harlem, with roots in Guyana, and at home in your living room.
INFLUENCES: I like a wide variety of work from the literary works of Toni Morrison and Gloria Naylor to the tell it like it is work of Terry McMillan. I also enjoy Heru Ptah and many of my peers like Jennifer Weiner and Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez. There are very exciting things happening in black and Latin women’s writing right now! I am also classically inspired as you’ll find hints of The Wizard of Oz in Dare. In fact, the entire novel Dare is a chick lit retelling of the German fable Faust set in the hip hop world. Read more at www.abiolaabrams.com.
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