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Zeba Blay

Zeba Blay is a Ghanaian-American writer, film and cultural critic and former senior culture writer for The Huffington Post. She coined the hashtag #Carefree BlackGirl in 2013 and published her accompanying debut essay collection Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Pop Culture in 2021.

Early life and education
Blay was born in Ghana and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 2013, she received her bachelor's degree from The New School's Eugene Lang College, where she created an original concentration in cultural criticism. == Career ==
Career
Writing Blay's writing has been in published in The New York Times, The Village Voice, IndieWire, Film Comment, and others. She was a culture writer at HuffPost from 2013 until 2021. She was a writer for the web series MTV Decoded, hosted by Franchesca Ramsey. She coined the viral hashtag #CarefreeBlackGirl on Twitter in October 2013, as a method "to assert and affirm my right to exist." She also includes her personal experiences with anxiety and depression. Other work Blay co-hosted the pop culture podcast Two Brown Girls with Fariha Róisín from 2012 to 2017. She uses her personal Instagram as an archive for images related to Black expression, emotion, and care. == Personal life ==
Personal life
Blay resides in New York City. == Works ==
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