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Shar Jossell

(She/Her)
Los Angeles, United States
As seen in: NPR, Variety, Flipboard, Essence, Audacy.com, KPQS-FM (Palm Desert, CA), GLAAD, Them, Xtra Magazine, WRVO-FM (Oswego, NY) and
Covers:  entertainment, pop culture, gender studies, politics, lgbtq+, health & wellness
Award-Winning Entertainment Journalist• Culture Critic · Media Personality• @nabjlaofficial President• views are my own

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Shar Jossell is an award-winning journalist, media personality, and writer. Her primary area of focus is arts and entertainment and she writes at the intersections of gender, politics, race, and pop culture. Shar has been featured on BET, ESSENCE News, Buzzfeed, TMZ Live, FOX Soul, and That Grape Juice. Her bylines include ESSENCE, Variety, them., ZORA, and Bold Culture--just to name a few.

Most recently, Shar was a part-time co-host on Audacy's Channel Q Radio (KQPS 103.1 FM), and she served …

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Laverne Cox Has Nothing Left To Hide

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By Shar Jossell
| GLAAD
In her new memoir, Cox finally tells her whole story on her own terms. Laverne Cox structured her debut memoir, Transcendent,  in three parts: “What’s wrong with me?,” “What happened to me?,” and “What’s right with me?” It reads less like a lesson plan and more like an internal excavation that takes decades to be ready for. “I’m so humbled by it,” the New York Times best selling author expressed to GLAAD.
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'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' heralds good things for the MCU's future

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By Glen Weldon, Jordan Morris, Shar Jossell, Ronald Young Jr
| WRVO-FM (Oswego, NY) Verified
The Fantastic Four are back again in a new movie--and it's an eye-popping good time. The Fantastic Four: First Steps stars Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn as the famously fractious family with amazing powers who tangle with a godlike being who wants to eat the Earth. We've seen this story before, but the vibe is different this time.
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'Lilo & Stitch' brings its fuzzy agent of chaos to the real world

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By Stephen Thompson Verified, Aisha Harris Verified, Candice Lim, Shar Jossell
| WRVO-FM (Oswego, NY) Verified
The new Lilo & Stitch is mostly live-action and retells the original Disney animated film's story of two orphaned Hawaiian sisters and the chaotic alien who upends their lives. The movie deviates from the original in many ways, but the central story is a tale of sisterhood and found family with lots of rowdy chaos along the way. The cast includes Maia Kealoha, Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Zach Galifianakis, and Chris Sanders returns as the voice of Stitch.
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Awards

The Curve Award

2021 - Emerging Journalists

Presented by The Association of LGBTQ Journalists and The Curve Foundation: the award provides financial support to emerging journalists whose work fosters fair and accurate coverage and elevates the voices of LGBTQ+ women. The award is open to lesbians, queer women, trans women and nonbinary people based in the United States.

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Passing The Torch Award

2024 - Outstanding Journalism

THE TRUTH AWARDS-- Annually, the Black LGBTQ+ community gathers in Los Angeles to recognize and honor those who have made an impact on popular culture, politics and the arts, provide scholarships to LGBTQ+ youth, and thank those called allies. Past honorees include Lena Waithe, Karine Jean-Pierre, Coleman Domingo, Dr. David Johns, Oprah Winfrey, Sherri Shepherd, Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union-Wade.

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