The You Do You Show

Venus Libido: on Michael Jackson, TLC and mental health


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My guest this week is illustrator and mental health advocate, Venus Libido. Her art reflects life in 2019 – messy and complicated, a constant balancing act between self-love and self-doubt. Though her pieces are often tongue-in-cheek, lots of them shine a light on issues of mental health. It’s something we talk a lot about throughout the episode, as well as its intersection with the act of creating work, social media and, of course, pop culture from the music of Michael Jackson (featuring a discussion of the recent HBO/Channel 4 documentary Leaving Neverland) to It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. First though, Venus tells me a little bit about how she started out as an illustrator…

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