Zeba Blay is a culture and film.Previously, Blay was a Senior Culture Writer at HuffPost. Her works has appeared in Allure, Film Comment, ESSENCE, The New York Times, Shadow and Act, The Village Voice, Indiewire, and the Webby Award-winning MTV digital series “Decoded.” In 2013, she coined the hashtag #carefreeblackgirl on Twitter.Blay's first book, a collection of pop culture essays called "Carefree Black Girls," was published in 2021.