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FUN, INSPIRATION & EMPOWERMENT

FROM PAPER MAGAZINE
April 2008 
If only the teenage Abiola Abrams could see herself now. The multimedia diva once dreamed of becoming an actress but as soon as that dream came true, Abrams realized that the quality of interesting roles for women of color was sorely lacking. "It was too passive a space for me," the New York City born-and-bred, Guyanese-rooted beauty explains of being on the big screen. Instead, Abrams decided to broadcast her very active ideas as a filmmaker, writer and TV personality. And whether she's chatting away on television as the host of BET's The Best Shorts, directing award-winning short films like Knives in My Throat, or conquering the virtual world with her daily online show Planet Abiola, her blog The Goddess Factory or debut novel Dare, Abrams is spreading her gospel of "empowering people culturally, emotionally, sexually and politically," across every possible media platform. "I use pop culture to remind people to love themselves already, damn it," laughs Abrams. So how does the unabashed feminist, activist and self-love guru define herself? "I am the daughter of Madonna and Oprah Winfrey, Cosmo and Ms., Candida Royalle and Eve Ensler. I was born to talk to people."
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DO I LOOK FAMILIAR? Of course I do! Maybe you know me from being a BET host for two years, or as the face of blackplanet's fun talk-variety show, or you've seen me as a correspondent on BET, HBO, NBC, or perhaps you just found me co-starring on the VH1 reality show Tough Love produced by Drew Barrymore. You also may have read my writing and my work as "the goddess passionista" in Paper Magazine, Self Magazine, Essence Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, RollingOut Urbanstyle Weekly, Esquire, Time Out NY, Upscale Magazine, Uptown Magazine, Nerve, Good Housekeeping, Today's Black Woman, Carib News, the Amsterdam News, The Village Voice, Black Enterprise Magazine or The Observer.

Currently I am the author of the novel Dare, a daily blogger and host of hit talk-variety show Planet Abiola for the largest African American community in the webiverse.  My writings on the foibles of love, sex and dating are also in current bestselling anthologies Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex and Behind the Bedroom Door

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ABIOLA ABRAMS is a TV personality, filmmaker and author who shows up with her big mouth and hot pink doctor bag of advice and self worth to whip us into shape. Abiola's debut novel Dare (Simon & Schuster) is the wild adventure of two women learning to live by their own gutsy rules. Currently she is a creative producer and host of the Planet Abiola Show for TV One's blackplanet. Host and correspondent Abiola Abrams just finished a run on VH1's Tough Love, and for the past two years 28 million viewers tuned in to watch Abiola on BET: interviewing filmmakers on her show The Best Shorts, as an outspoken, recurring panelist on My Two Cents, and hosting specials such as All Access

As an art filmmaker Abiola Abrams’ short films and docs investigate themes of gender, race and empowerment. Her directing work includes Knives in My Throat about a spoken word poet dealing with bipolar disorder, Ophelia's Opera a short narrative about coping with domestic violence, and Afrodite Superstar, acclaimed feminist erotica. The goal of Abiola's work is to use pop culture entertainment to create uncommon inspiration: culturally, politically, emotionally and sexually. Her advice column runs in the weekly urban tabloid Rolling Out. Abiola has BA from Sarah Lawrence and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.  She is an opinionated tastemaker, cheerleader, hip hop feminist, cultural critic and all around TV big mouth. 

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Former Producing Host of HBO's interstitial politically incorrect talk show Chat Zone and syndicated NBC hip hop news show The Source: All Access, Abiola's writing is featured in current anthology A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer by Eve Ensler alongside the writings of Maya Angelou, Edward Albee and Alice Walker.  Her writing is also featured in critically acclaimed new anthologies Behind the Bedroom Door by Paula Derrow (Self Magazine) and Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia by Ellen Sussman, and last year she was the keynote speaker for Black History Month at New York University.

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