No Filter: Amy Sherald

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🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Her portrait of Michelle Obama went viral. Painter Amy Sherald dismisses the haters. “Some people want their poetry to rhyme.”

Plus, Allison P. Davis, Senior Culture Writer at The Cut, on how picking Amy was like Michelle Obama choosing her own Instagram filter.

This is day three of our weeklong series, No Filter: Women Owning It Online, with New York Magazine’s The Cut. Five conversations with badass women. Some old, some young. ALL have bent the internet to their will. And trust us, you don’t have to be a woman for this series to be a must-listen.

Monday we talked to Instagram megastar Lele Pons. Yesterday, Transparent star Trace Lysette. Coming up, CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour, and iconic artist Barbara Kruger, who blew all of our minds.

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0:00.0	This is no filter, our special series in collaboration with New York magazines The Cut.
0:07.8	I'm Manish Samarote, the host of Note to Self.
0:11.1	And every day this week, you're getting a conversation with a smart woman about how
0:16.4	she portrays herself online, how she gets her and deals with the downsides and the upsides
0:23.1	of life on the internet.
0:25.2	How she owns it.
0:27.1	Monday we talk to YouTube, Phenom, Lele Ponds.
0:31.0	On whether her goofy, blonde, bombshell video persona is real or not, and why teens and
0:37.0	tweens love her so much, people I have never had so much social media love as when Lele
0:45.5	tweeted Instagram Facebook about me extraordinary.
0:50.6	The power of Lele is real.
0:52.1	Anyway, yesterday actor Trace Lissette loved her.
0:56.2	She is from the show transparent.
0:58.2	She explained how social media has helped make trans women and their everyday lives so
1:05.0	much more visible.
1:08.9	Right now.
1:10.0	Right here, it's day three.
1:12.3	And the artist Amy Sherald.
1:14.8	Amy isn't really known for how she portrays herself, more for how she portrays others.
1:21.8	Literally.
1:22.8	And one in particular, Michelle Obama, who chose Amy to paint her official portrait.
1:30.3	And I'm so excited to welcome today's reporter journalist, awesome woman from our partners
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