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No Filter: Jasmyn Lawson
Note to Self
English - April 03, 2018 16:00 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 2.5K ratingsTechnology Education Self-Improvement new tech city wnyc radio york public npr technology business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We couldn’t close out No Filter, our series on women owning it online, without profiling Jasmyn Lawson, former culture editor at Giphy. That's the search engine that houses all those looped videos we use to express emotion - and ourselves - online.
But when Jasmyn started working there, she couldn’t find many gifs that looked like her. "Just having Beyonce and Rihanna and Nicki Minaj is not enough to say you're representing black women." So she made her own.
Jasmyn Lawson
(Ryan Pfluger)
The woman behind some of your favorite gifs takes us to the future. See what being a woman on the web may look like.
We couldn’t close out No Filter, our series on women owning it online, without profiling Jasmyn Lawson, former culture editor at Giphy. That's the search engine that houses all those looped videos we use to express emotion - and ourselves - online. But when Jasmyn started working there, she couldn’t find many gifs that looked like her. "Just having Beyonce and Rihanna and Nicki Minaj is not enough to say you're representing black women." So she made her own.
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Some podcast news: For the next several weeks you'll hear the “Best of” Note to Self in your podcast feed. Our favorite episodes. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but she’ll be back before you know it with some changes and surprises. Keep in touch with her on Twitter, Instagram, and on her website.