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 ==