Note to Self

No Filter: Jasmyn Lawson

The woman behind some of your favorite gifs takes us to the future. See what being a woman on the web may look like.
We couldn’t close out <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/notetoself/projects/no-filter" target="_blank">No Filter</a>, our series on women owning it online, without profiling Jasmyn Lawson, former culture editor at <a href="https://giphy.com/" target="_blank">Giphy</a>. 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." <a href="https://giphy.com/gifs/womenshistorymonth-xUA7aOWBbGsDz2UnAI" target="_blank">So she made her own.</a>
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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. Manoush will be working on some other projects, but she’ll be back before you know it with some changes and surprises. Keep in touch with her on <a href="https://twitter.com/manoushz">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/manoushz/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, and on <a href="http://www.manoushz.com/newsletter/">her website</a>.

Is your phone watching you? Can texting make you smarter? Are your kids real? Note to Self explores these and other essential quandaries facing anyone trying to preserve their humanity in the digital age. 
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