Abiola
Abrams- Author, Media Personality & self-declared Goddess Passionista -
your favorite bad girl + good woman. She hosts TV shows like BET's The Best Shorts, HBO's
The Buzz and NBC's Source: All Access, and appears as a pop culture talking head
on networks like FOX. Most notoriously she played "Miss Picky" on VH1's new reality series
Tough Love, revealing her deliciously messy
romantic life. Abiola's daily column
"The Kiss & Tell Report" is the top local Sex & Relationships column on Examiner.com.
DARE
is Abiola's popular debut novel (Simon & Schuster) and her essays on love, sex, dating
and finding personal power have been published in bestselling anthologies such as Behind the Bedroom Door and
Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex. Her writing on stopping violence
against women and girls is also published in Eve Ensler's anthology A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer. Abiola
has also written for publications such as Self Magazine, and has been written about in publications from Gawker and The Huffington
Post to Paper Magazine and Essence.
Abiola is a lead contributor (articles, video content, celebrity interviews, web series)
in the areas of entertainment, love, sex, relationships and pop culture to: HelloBeautiful.com, Glam.com, Examiner.com,
Shovio.com and LuvEmOLeaveEm.com. She is featured
in the 2010 NYC Sex Blogger's Calendar, and her monthly literary reading and performance series "Abiola's Kiss
& Tell Live Revue" at Madame X in New York City takes place the 3rd Tuesday of every month. As a part of her safe sex initiative she directed the award-winning and critically acclaimed feminist
erotica art film, "Afrodite Superstar."
Abiola Abrams gives keynote
addresses on women and empowerment at schools from NYU to The New School for Social Research. Her social issues art
films (shorts and documentaries) have shown in festivals, museums and universities. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence and an
MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.