season 4
Anuli Akanegbu stars in this limited-run experimental audio docuseries based on her real-life experiences of pursuing a PhD in Cultural Anthropology. Experience five years of blood, sweat, laughter, and tears consolidated into six episodes.
New episodes will air weekly on Tuesdays from November 12, 2024, thru December 17, 2024 on all podcast streaming platforms.
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EPISODES
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EPISODE 1: ANULI GOES BACK TO SCHOOL
Tag along with our protagonist, Anuli, as she leaves Corporate America to go back to school in the season premiere of this limited-run experimental audio docuseries from BLK IRL.
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EPISODE 2: ANULI MOVES TO ATLANTA
Follow our protagonist Anuli as she prepares to move to Atlanta to conduct the formal fieldwork for her PhD in cultural anthropology.
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EPISODE 3: ANULI WINS BIG
This episode takes place in Fall 2022 during a month in the life of our protagonist, Anuli. In this episode she receives some major career news while processing everything from social anxiety to voting in Georgia for the first time.
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EPISODE 4: ANULI DOES THE (FIELD)WORK
In this episode our protagonist, Anuli, shares her reflections on methodology, ethnographic research, and doing this thing that anthropologists call “fieldwork” while living in the American South as a Black woman studying Black life.
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EPISODE 5: ANULI RACES AGAINST THE CLOCK
Follow our protagonist, Anuli, as she races against the clock to graduate before her fellowship funds run out. In this episode she turns her attention to writing her dissertation while also navigating everyday life in Atlanta and university bureaucracy.
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EPISODE 6: ANULI FINALLY GRADUATES
This is the final episode of the limited docuseries, BLK to School. Join our protagonist, Anuli, as she prepares for the big day and start figuring out what life looks like after the cap and gown.