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Shardae

Hello, reader!

My name is Shardae and this is my blog, which I began years ago during the original blogosphere era of the 2000s. It was a fun time in which bloggers expressed themselves through the pictures we took on our digital cameras, and of course, our hot takes on anything and everything.

While throughout the years, I didn’t post as much-sometimes I went a whole year and didn’t-I’ve always maintained this site to return to. It’s one of the few online spaces online I’ve maintained since my late teens.

As of late, I’ve been using it as a photo blog. And occasionally, as an online diary. But mainly as a place for my photos and online scrapbooking, where I collect memes, tweets, and videos that I find hilarious, educational, heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking, or that offers sage advice. Most of what I post is on the grounds of relatability and I post them because it crosses my mind that maybe, just maybe, someone visiting my site can connect.

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On a professional note, I’ve been a freelance journalist and reporter for a handful of years, writing for local, legacy, and small/indie publications. I’m also a self-taught editor.

My published articles are accessible here in an abridged version, and as an expanded list, here on my site.

I also run a Substack where more (and only) editorial content is published.

I’m always coming across amazing projects, initiatives, and trends started and run by everyday people who believed in their dreams and potential. I’ve always felt I’ve had an amazing pulse on what readers want to read, know about, and feel inspired by. I’m thankful, in return to the interviewees who gave me their time to share their journeys. And to the editors who were not just professional, but kind in their conduct.

(A bit about my deejaying is below!)

Thanks for reading this bio!

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As a DJ, I’ve played at Hotel Chantelle and The Westway in New York City. And what was formerly known as the Gallery Bar and then became the second location of the now closed Max Fish, also in New York City. I also held a summer 2015 residency, on Sunday afternoons, at Sweet & Vicious in NYC’s Bowery area.

In Boston, MA, I’ve deejayed at 6B and the Good Bar.

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I’ve also done some podcast episodes. Fingers crossed I stop hating my voice and do more!

Favorite Albums (in no particular order)

Version 2.0, Garbage

The Velvet Rope, Janet Jackson

Control, Janet Jackson

Celebrity Skin, Hole

Afrodisiac, Brandy

Songs For You, Tinashe

Blackout, Britney Spears

Kala, M.I.A.

CTRL, SZA

Fever to Tell, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

A tie between Renaissance and Beyonce, Beyoncé

Favorite Films/Movies I Luv! (in no particular order):

Mi Vida Loca (1993)

My Girl (1991)

Mermaids (1990)

Annie (1982)

The Craft (1996)

The Parent Trap (1961)

A Goofy Movie (1995)

Crooklyn (1994)

Saving Face (2004)

Girl (1998)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

Grease (1978)

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Moscow on the Hudson (1984)

Clueless (1995)

Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)

E.T. (1982)

Never Been Kissed (1999)

Holiday Affair (1949)

Goodfellas (1990)

Books: (in no particular order)

Passing by Nella Larsen

So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins

Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir by Janice Erlbaum

Just As Long We’re Together by Judy Blume

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Diaz

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth by E.L. Konigsburg

Favorite television shows and cartoons: (in no particular order)

Sex and The City

Doug

Daria

The Jeffersons

Entourage

The L Word

The Brady Bunch

The Facts of Life

I Love Lucy

Ready or Not (Canadian series)