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WE OWNED IT

Today, the finale of No Filter, our series of conversations with badass women owning it online, in partnership with New York Magazine's The Cut.

From YouTube megastar Lele Pons to iconic artist Barbara Kruger, we heard a joyous mix of vulnerable confessions, utter defiance, and (for once) a mostly positive vision of what being a woman on the web can look like. No, we didn't fix the internet, but hey, a little optimism helps a lot.
 

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To wrap it up, stories from you, listeners. How you’re reconciling the IRL you with the online you. Plus, The Cut’s editor-in-chief Stella Bugbee is back with her greatest hope for the next generation of women in the workplace.

GIFTASTIC: JASMYN LAWSON
 

We couldn’t close out No Filter 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, the ones that filled our inbox to the brim. I’ll be working on some other projects, but I’ll be back before you know it. With some changes and surprises.

We’re hitting the pause button on our newsletter for now, but you can keep in touch with me on Twitter, Instagram, and on my website. Seriously. Come find me.

#ownit,

Manoush
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