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==Career==
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In June 1999, ''[[Ms. Magazine|Ms.]]'' magazine published a series of articles by three generations of women discussing whether Lewinsky's behavior had any meaning for feminism. Abrams was featured, along with [[Susan Jane Gilman]] and the sexologist [[Susie Bright]].<ref name="Ms3">{{cite news|last=Abrams|first=Abiola Wendy|date=June 1999|title=Dear Monica|work=[[Ms. Magazine|Ms.]]|url=http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-abrams.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140806031850/http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-abrams.asp|archive-date=August 6, 2014|accessdate=July 13, 2014}}<br />- {{cite news|last=Gilman|first=Susan Jane|date=June 1999|title=Oral Report|work=Ms.|url=http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-gilman.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140210003700/http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-gilman.asp|archive-date=February 10, 2014|accessdate=July 13, 2014}}<br />- {{cite news|last=Bright|first=Susie|date=June 1999|title=The Beauty and the Brains|work=Ms.|url=http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-bright.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715141323/http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-bright.asp|archive-date=July 15, 2014|accessdate=July 13, 2014}}</ref>
In June 1999, ''[[Ms. Magazine|Ms.]]'' magazine published a series of articles by three generations of women discussing whether Monica Lewinsky's behavior had any meaning for feminism. Abrams was featured, along with [[Susan Jane Gilman]] and the sexologist [[Susie Bright]].<ref name="Ms3">{{cite news|last=Abrams|first=Abiola Wendy|date=June 1999|title=Dear Monica|work=[[Ms. Magazine|Ms.]]|url=http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-abrams.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140806031850/http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-abrams.asp|archive-date=August 6, 2014|accessdate=July 13, 2014}}<br />- {{cite news|last=Gilman|first=Susan Jane|date=June 1999|title=Oral Report|work=Ms.|url=http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-gilman.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140210003700/http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-gilman.asp|archive-date=February 10, 2014|accessdate=July 13, 2014}}<br />- {{cite news|last=Bright|first=Susie|date=June 1999|title=The Beauty and the Brains|work=Ms.|url=http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-bright.asp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715141323/http://www.msmagazine.com/jun99/monica-bright.asp|archive-date=July 15, 2014|accessdate=July 13, 2014}}</ref>


Abrams is an author, columnist and blogger in the self-help and love fields. ''Black Enterprise'' magazine named her site one of the top African American lifestyle blogs.<ref>''Black Enterprise'' [http://www.blackenterprise.com/lifestyle/black-blogger-month-abiola-tv/ Black-Blogger]</ref> Her first writing project, ''Goddess City'', an empowerment play produced at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,<ref>New York Public Library [http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/sc/sce/1998.htm/ NYPL] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524041410/http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/sc/sce/1998.htm/ |date=May 24, 2012 }}</ref> was published in the anthology ''Say Word!'' by the University of Michigan Press.<ref>University of Michigan Press [http://www.press.umich.edu/322638/say_word! ''Say Word!'']</ref>
Abrams is an author, columnist and blogger in the self-help and love fields. ''Black Enterprise'' magazine named her site one of the top African American lifestyle blogs.<ref>''Black Enterprise'' [http://www.blackenterprise.com/lifestyle/black-blogger-month-abiola-tv/ Black-Blogger]</ref> Her first writing project, ''Goddess City'', an empowerment play produced at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,<ref>New York Public Library [http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/sc/sce/1998.htm/ NYPL] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524041410/http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/sc/sce/1998.htm/ |date=May 24, 2012 }}</ref> was published in the anthology ''Say Word!'' by the University of Michigan Press.<ref>University of Michigan Press [http://www.press.umich.edu/322638/say_word! ''Say Word!'']</ref>

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Abiola Abrams
File:Abiola Abrams.jpg
Abiola Abrams in New York
Born
Abiola Wednesday Abrams

(1976-07-29) July 29, 1976 (age 48)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Author, Motivational Speaker, Media Personality
Known forbooks, blogging, podcasts
WebsiteWomanifesting.com

Abiola Abrams is an American author, podcaster, motivational speaker and spiritual life coach. Abrams has penned three books, including African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy [1][2], her first book from self-help publisher Hay House, published on July 20, 2021[3]. Her second book, The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love, won an African American Literary Award for Best Self Help[4]. Black Enterprise included her inspirational podcast in “20 Must-Listen to Black Women podcasts for 2019”[5] and in 2020, her podcast was chosen by Success.com[6] as one of “16 Motivational Podcasts by Black Hosts You Need to Listen To.”  Essence Magazine[7] included Abrams’ annual Goddess Retreat in their roundup of “Black Girl-Approved and Operated Wellness Escapes.” Abrams’ website, Womanifesting.com[8], discusses spirituality, personal growth, and entrepreneurship.

Her previous advice columns include Intimacy Intervention on Essence.com[9] and Abiola's Love Class on MommyNoire.com.[10]

Early life and education

She is a first generation Guyanese-American who was raised in New York City. Abrams attended the Brearley School. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts.[11]

Abrams is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She was a featured speaker at NYC Women's Empowerment Summit.[12] Abrams is a certified life coach.

Career

In June 1999, Ms. magazine published a series of articles by three generations of women discussing whether Monica Lewinsky's behavior had any meaning for feminism. Abrams was featured, along with Susan Jane Gilman and the sexologist Susie Bright.[13]

Abrams is an author, columnist and blogger in the self-help and love fields. Black Enterprise magazine named her site one of the top African American lifestyle blogs.[14] Her first writing project, Goddess City, an empowerment play produced at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,[15] was published in the anthology Say Word! by the University of Michigan Press.[16]

Dare[17], Abrams' first novel, was published by Simon & Schuster on December 11, 2007.[18]

Her poem "Groceries" appears in the playwright/activist Eve Ensler's 2007 anthology A Memory, A Monologue a Rant and A Prayer[19] alongside work by such writers as Maya Angelou, Edward Albee, Alice Walker and Edwidge Danticat. Essays by Abrams are featured in the anthologies Behind the Bedroom Door (2008)[20], edited by Paula Derrow, and Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex (2008)[21], edited by Ellen Sussman.

In the New York Times Style Magazine[22], filmmaker Miranda July referred to Abrams’ evolution from experimental feminist art filmmaker as “just one of many inspiring paths that briefly intersected with the video Chainletter that can’t be broken.” Abrams’ short experimental art film “Ophelia’s Opera” included in Miranda July’s Joanie 4 Jackie Chainletter film series[23] was acquired in 2017 by the Criterion Channel and the Getty Museum Research Institute[24].

Television and film

Highline Ballroom in Manhattan hosting web TV show.

Abrams is a lifestyle and relationship coach who has given advice on TV talk shows such as the CW Network's The Bill Cunningham Show.[25] She appeared on WE TV’s Braxton Family Values as herself, interviewing the reality star Tamar Braxton for her web TV YouTube talk show.[26] Abrams also talks about the rules of dating on the Centric show Him and Her Rules also featuring Claudia Jordan, Dr. Jeff Gardere, Dr. Michelle Callahan.[27] Abrams also filmed an episode of Meghan McCain's Pivot series, Raising McCain named "The Death of Romance" along with the comic writer Phoebe Robinson.[28]

Abrams in Harlem, New York City

Abrams was a BBC entertainment correspondent from 2011 to 2012 and a former host of The Best Shorts,[18] Black Entertainment Television's (BET) indie film showcase and competition from 2006 to 2008.[29] Abiola also appeared on My Two Cents, a panel-style show also on her network's Centric, formerly BET J. She has hosted or co-hosted such shows as the syndicated The Source: All Access, Source magazine's hip hop show, and Chat Zone, an HBO interstitial talk show billed as "politically incorrect" for the MTV set, and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as a part of his red carpet interview coverage of the 2007 BET Awards in Los Angeles.

In spring 2009, she was featured on VH1's reality television show Tough Love. In spring 2011, she starred as a dating empowerment coach on MTV's reality television show Made. In addition, she has guest starred on TV series such as Law & Order and the soap opera All My Children and appears as a pop culture talking head on networks such as FOX.[30]

Abrams directed the documentaries Taboo: The Controversy of Black/White 'Race Mixing' in America (2005), Knives in My Throat: The Year I Survived While My Mind Tried to Kill Me (2005); and short films Stranded (2004), Ophelia's Opera (2001).[30][31][32][33][34]

Works

African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy (2021)[1][3]

African Goddess Rising Oracle Cards (2021)[35][36]

Enter the Goddess Temple (2021)[37]

Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love (2014)[38]

Dare: A Love Story (2008)[17]

Goddess City (2011)[39][40]

References

  1. ^ a b Abrams, Abiola (2021). African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy. Carlsbad, CA: HAY HOUSE INC. ISBN 978-1401962944. OCLC 1198217780.
  2. ^ Abiola (March 19, 2021). "Hay House Presents African Goddess Initiation: My New Book Cover Reveal". Womanifest Your Power with Abiola: Spirit, Mindset, Success. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  3. ^ a b "African Goddess Initiation by Abiola Abrams: 9781401962944 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  4. ^ "African American Literary Awards Show". Facebook.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ gaynete (March 19, 2019). "20 Must-Listen to Black Women Podcasts for 2019". Black Enterprise. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  6. ^ STAFF, SUCCESS (June 9, 2020). "16 Motivational Podcasts by Black Hosts You Need to Listen To". SUCCESS.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ Butler, Sana (July 2, 2019). "Black Girl-Approved and Operated Wellness Escapes For Your Next Vacation". Essence.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Abrams, Abiola (February 14, 2018). "Womanifesting". Womanifest Your Power with Abiola: Spirit, Mindset, Success.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Essence.com Intimacy-Intervention
  10. ^ MommyNoire.com Abiola's Love Class
  11. ^ Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. International Membership Directory. 2004. p. 2.
  12. ^ "NYC Women's Empowerment Summit Electrifies the Big Apple". F.A.M.E. NYC Magazine. July 25, 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ Abrams, Abiola Wendy (June 1999). "Dear Monica". Ms. Archived from the original on August 6, 2014. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
    - Gilman, Susan Jane (June 1999). "Oral Report". Ms. Archived from the original on February 10, 2014. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
    - Bright, Susie (June 1999). "The Beauty and the Brains". Ms. Archived from the original on July 15, 2014. Retrieved July 13, 2014.
  14. ^ Black Enterprise Black-Blogger
  15. ^ New York Public Library NYPL Archived May 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ University of Michigan Press Say Word!
  17. ^ a b Dare. December 11, 2007. ISBN 978-1-4165-7737-9.
  18. ^ a b "Abiola Abrams Biography". Simon & Schuster. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011.
  19. ^ Ensler, Eve (2007). A memory, a monologue, a rant, and a prayer. Mollie Doyle. New York. ISBN 978-0-345-49791-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  20. ^ Derrow, Paula (2008). Behind the Bedroom Door: Getting it, Giving it, Loving it, Missing it. New York: Delacorte Press. ISBN 978-0-440-33824-6.
  21. ^ Sussman, Ellen (2008). Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex. New York: Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1-59691-474-2. OCLC 191697286.
  22. ^ Schilling, Mary Kaye (January 30, 2017). "Miranda July Shares Her Vintage Feminist Film Archive". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  23. ^ "Ophelia's Opera – Joanie 4 Jackie". 2003.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  24. ^ "Joanie 4 Jackie". The Criterion Channel. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  25. ^ Bill Cunningham show Show Blogger: Abiola Abrams
  26. ^ Tamar Braxton Talks Love and War Archived December 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  27. ^ Miss Claudia Jean Media Kit
  28. ^ Meghan McCain Lifestyle Expert
  29. ^ "Abiola Abrams". AbiolaAbrams.com. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
  30. ^ a b "Abiola Abrams". IMDb. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  31. ^ "Abiola Abrams". Co-Creator Network. 2009.
  32. ^ Sutton, Wayne (February 21, 2010). "#28DaysofDiversity: People of color impacting the social web. Day 21 Abiola Abrams @AbiolaTV". socialwayne.com.
  33. ^ "CineWomen On Screen - A NYWIFT series". New York Women in Film and Television. March 1, 2010. Archived from the original on October 9, 2010.
  34. ^ Knight, Magda (September 3, 2014). "Abiola Abrams". Mookychick.
  35. ^ "African Goddess Rising Oracle by Abiola Abrams: 9781401963101 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  36. ^ Abrams, Abiola (2021). African Goddess Rising Oracle. Calsbad, CA: Hay House. ISBN 9781401963101.
  37. ^ "Goddess Temple Podcast - Motivation, Inspiration, Spirituality - Divine Feminine Goddess Gifts of the Spring Equinox". www.hipcast.com. Retrieved May 6, 2021.
  38. ^ Abrams, Abiola (2014). The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love : The 11 Forbidden Secrets of Feminine Power. New York, NY: Love University Press. ISBN 978-0-9660707-8-1. OCLC 884459838.
  39. ^ Say Word!. ISBN 978-0-472-07132-6.
  40. ^ "Goddess City". University of Michigan Press.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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