I’ve been writing and sharing my content with the world for over ten years in the form of news, features, and advice columns both online and in print. Please feel free to browse through my works at SYFY, InStyle, Black Girl Nerds, and Girls Life online as well as other outlets.
Kick N It Wit Kenya
Episode
Kick N It Wit Kenya Episode 51. Dating While Broke
The JV Club Podcast
Episode
The JV Club Podcast with Janet Varney, Episode #407 — Afiya Augustine
O.School
Features
Getting a Divorce a Year After Marriage Sucks — A Lot
SHE KNOWS
Features, Entertainment
- Holiday Movies That Don’t Revolve Around Romance
- 12 Reboots the World Really Doesn’t Need Right Now
- 8 Things We’d Like to See Happen in ‘Midnight, Texas’ Season 2
Black Girls Create
Critical Companion October 2018
Shade to the Supernatural Nerdom: My Mom’s Disgust For My Love of the Supernatural
SYFY WIRE
Features, Entertainment
- How ‘FernGully: The Last Rainforest’ made me an eco-friendly kid
- Are we headed towards a Demolition Man future?
- The Real Housewives of Sleepy Hollow: How the women really ran the town
- Fancasting older men for the role of The Little Mermaid’s Eric needs to stop
- Steve Urkel was the sexy nerd Laura Winslow did not deserve
- The Haunting and the queer romance that never happened
- Morgan Le Fay of Starz’s Camelot slayed with her witchy tricks
- 7 things I realized while watching The Lion King as an adult
- Penny Dreadful reinvents Dracula into the Devil’s brother
- We don’t talk enough about Penny Dreadful’s deadly Nightcomers
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen overshadowed its lady Mina Harker
- Once Bitten’s Countess is the femme Dracula we need
- Marvel’s forgotten STEM femme badass, ‘Blade’s Dr. Karen Jenson
- ‘Midnight, Texas’ Season 1 rewatch and Scare-o-Meter — Part 1
- 7 times we broke up with our favorite fandoms
- All hail Kida of Atlantis: ‘The Lost Empire’, Disney’s forgotten queen of color
- ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ was more than just a children’s show
- 62 thoughts we had while watching ‘Aladdin’
- The power in mental illness for female villains
- 51 thoughts we had while watching Pocahontas
- A POC dream casting for ‘Dune’ 2020
- 50 not-so-strange and unusual thoughts we had while watching ‘Beetlejuice’
- ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’, ‘The Legend of Korra’, and their assortment of badass women
- Marjorie Liu’s ‘Monstress’: the beauty, the magic, and the horror
- 78 thoughts I had while watching ‘The Mummy’ (1999)
- What Ursula K. LeGuin’s ‘The Left Hand of Darkness” taught me about science fiction writing
- 66 things I noticed while watching ‘The Little Mermaid’ as an adult
- Why I still mourn the terrible way ‘True Blood’ ended
- Book vs Flick: ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’
- 55 things I noticed while watching ‘Beauty and the Beast’ as an adult
- Why a reboot of Disney’s ‘Gargoyles’ is definitely needed
- 6 reasons why ‘X-Men’s Storm deserves her own spin-off movie
The Mary Sue
Features, Entertainment
- Younger Is the Perfect Show for the Old-Soul Millennial
- Why Issa Rae’s Insecure Is the Representation I’ve Been Waiting For
- Here’s How DC Can Make the Ultimate Solo Harley Quinn Film
InStyle Online
Facebook Live tutorials, lifestyle features, wedding features
- One Woman Makes a Strong Case for Living Together Before Marriage
- 11 Geek Chic Wedding Ideas For the Nerdy Couple
- 8 New Wedding Traditions Every Modern Couple Will Love
- Facebook Live Tutorial on Paper Flower Pom centerpieces
- How to Make DIY Paper Flower Pom Wedding Centerpieces
- How I Turned My Wedding Into a Massive DIY Project
- Viral Video of Man’s Faux Photoshoot Proposal (video)
Black Girl Nerds
Op-Eds, TV Show Recaps, Comic Reviews
Afiya Augustine Contributor Page at Black Girl Nerds
Wetpaint Entertainment
News, Features, TV Recaps, Exclusives, and Galleries
Afiya Augustine Author Page at Wetpaint.Com
VibeVixen
Features
- The Rules of a Proper Houseguest
- Making the Best of a Holiday Road Trip
- Beauty Tips: How to Freshen Your Overall Look
- Are YOU an Awkward Black Girl?
- When Do You Know You’re Ready?
XhibitP
News, Features
- The Pop Up: 08-12-2011 (News)
- The Pop Up: 09-01-2011 (News)
- The Pop Up: 09-13-2011 (News)
- What Would They Say: True Blood Gals Gab on Kardashian Wedding (Parody)
- My Guilt Pop Pleasure: K-POP (Op-ed)
- What Would They Say: Mad Men’s Don Draper Sells American Dreams (Parody)
- What Would They Say: Clueless Crew on Bernanke & the economy (Parody)
- Arrested Development: Cartoons, Modeling and Pole Dancing (Feature)
- My Guilty Pop Pleasure: 80’s Music (Op-Ed)
- My Guilty Pop Pleasure: RuPaul’s Drag Race (Op-Ed)
- Beyonce, Babies & the Supermom (Feature)
Girls Life Magazine
News, Features, Exclusives, Advice
- I wanna be…a race driver (Shannon McIntosh interview)
- What’s Beautiful? A Peek at Girls Around the Globe (feature)
- Could exercise stop your period? (advice, health)
- Tweenager Brooke Bestul Stars in a Hit Video Blog (Brooke Bestul Interview)
- Awe-inspiring Prom for Teen Patients (Prom for Blood Disease Patients)
- *Girl Talk* How to Survive a Best Friend Break-Up (Advice)
- National Blood Donor Month is Upon Us! (News)
- *Snag That Dream Job* Politician (Interview)
- GL celebrates the ah-mazing accomplishments of African American Women (feature)
- Scientist-in-Training Sydney Clark Shows the boys how it’s done (interview)
- How to be the life of the party (advice) (co-author)
- Will a perm destroy my super-fine hair (advice)?
- I want to be a singer, but my parents don’t take me seriously (advice)
- All crushed out! (advice, relationships)
- Be a better bestie (advice, guidelines)
- How can I help my fam get through a tough time? (advice)
- My bra is visible through my school uniform! (advice)
- First period protection (advice, health)
- I’m the girl who wets her pants (advice, health)
- It feels like I wet myself! (advice, health)
- I’ve got frosty fingers! (advice, health)
- Too shy to chat (advice, relationships)
- The great shower debate (advice, health, beauty)
More Published Articles
Giant Life Mag
Features
- Beyonce, Babies & the Supermom (featured on XhibitP.com)
- Radha Blank’s ‘SEED’ Takes Roots in Harlem (Review)
NYCityWatch.org
News
Things JFK And Ari Shared Over Time (NEWS)
Brooklyn College Excelsior- “City Chick”
Advice
- The City Chick’s Guide: What’s the Dish on Dating?
- Can We Be Friends? Drawing the line
- The Awful Un-gettable Get (Relationships)
- Don’t Grow Apart From Friends
Brooklyn College Excelsior – “Ms. Manners”
Advice
Proudgirls.com (formerly hangProud.com, these articles are from an archived location)
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