Pushkin.

What do poll dancing, AI Chappots and diet culture all have in common.

These subjects have a home on Embodied, the award-winning podcast I host from North Carolina

Public Radio W-U-N-C.

My name is Anita Rao, and you can consider me your personal guide to taking on the taboo.

Join me to explore important questions about our bodies and our society, where nothing is off limits.

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I'd say honesty is something that I try to cultivate in my personal life, but it's not something

that is a huge motivator for why I write about the things that I write about. I think it's more that I'm

interested in applying rigor and criticism to aspects of pop culture that other people kind of ignore.

That was Doreen, St Felix. I'm Samford Goseau. This is Talk Easy.

Welcome to the show. I'm Samford Goso. This is Talk Easy.

Welcome to the show. Oh, Dore has always succeeded. growing up in New York City, she was a grade a student in high school.

She flourished at Brown University after that and then quickly became the editor of the school's weekly newspaper.

It was no surprise that success followed her outside the classroom.

While others waffled in post-college Malays, Doreen wrote authoritatively on race, pop culture, sex, and music.

She wrote for a variety of outlets including Vogue, New York magazine, The Fader, Pitch Fork.

Once she established herself, she was hired as an editor at large at Lenny,

which was co-founded by Lena Dunham.

After that, she was brought on as a culture staff writer at MTV News.

Facts are facts. Forbes listed her in their 30 under 30 list while NPR Brooklyn

magazine and others continued to highlight Doreen's work.

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