Anna Akana

Happy Halloween 👻

Hope you guys had a great holiday!! Thank you for helping me raise money for the sweet Great Dane & puppy found on the street last month! Happy to report that the pup has been adopted & mom...

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monthly Q&A~

send along your questions & I'll make a video answering them! also any requests you may have for upcoming content x

What gives someone the ick, according to science

"luxury" unedited

Photographer Auden Bui whispers "luxury" from behind the camera. "Luxury," I whisper back from my feline position on the couch. "Luxury," she whispers again, shifting her position. "Luxury," I coo ...

tinfoil hat

This series of photos turned out way better than we thought tbh. Cat literally just wrapped me in tinfoil lol and Nicholas decided to shake the camera as he took photos to create a blurring effect ...

light blocks

Nicholas is most known for his ability to create really interesting shapes with light - previously we did some where he creates a profile of shadow across my face (for which he won an award!). His ...

raising money for Sunny Day Training!

This month’s proceeds will go towards sunny day training, a non profit dog rescue! A Great Dane mom and her pup were found in bad shape by my friend ironically named Cat (lol) and our friend Jenn...

Twin study reveals that being funny is probably trauma lol

plaster 2.0

photographer: Nicholas Freeman
make up artist: Cat Calico

free tickets for patreon members!

Hey there! are you in one of these cities? I'll be giving out free tickets to patreon members! Interested parties please comment below!

plaster

photographer: Nicholas Freeman
make up artist: Cat Calico

Crushes lower women's creativity, but not men's

A really fascinating look at how having a crush on someone affects your creativity based on gender! I do hope more and more studies come out that start taking into account LGBTQIA+ folks, because I...

platinum 🧊

Got some new headshots with the platinum hair! Very excited to see if these assist in the acting career, and if not, hey at least I got to be Khaleesi for a few months. I’ve always wanted to try ...

Teen suicides plummeted in March '20, when schools shut due to COVID. Returning from online to in-person schooling was associated with a 12-18% increase in teen suicides

A really fascinating study about how the rate of teen suicides increased/decreased during COVID 19 closures and re-openings. Now that we're five years away from lockdown (INSANE), I'm so interested...

faster bpms

surprise, she’s blonde! & I’ve been working on faster bpm song, which means faster spinning, which means getting dizzy 😵‍💫 hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend!!

we raised $5,500 for kitties!!

Thanks so much for all the donations to Sante Dor foundation for my birthday! We raised 5500 and your donations have been matched :)

flying

Thank you for all the glorious birthday wishes! :) I’m very excited for the annual birthday fundraiser for Sante Dor (final tally incoming this weekend from them)! It feels good to be 36. Age is ...

early access: boomers are more sensitive than millennials, according to the largest-ever study on narcissism

motel maven

The processed film from the Mike Gray shoot is here! Guys I'm ngl the sun has been OUT in Los Angeles, so I'm squinting and drenched in sweat in the majority of these lol. But it's always fun to ex...

never speak to me or my oversized hat again

Been very locked in on screenwriting lately but your girl still needs her vitamin D! One of the luxuries of working from home is that you can throw on a large, unnecessary hat to give your laptop g...

early access: attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during COVID

Mike Gray photoshoot BTS

You may be familiar with Mike Gray (https://www.instagram.com/mikegrayfilm)! Besides acting together in Youth &...

early access: people who believe in destiny are more likely to ghost you

A fascinating study on the correlation between destiny beliefs and ghosting!

early access: Do men fake it too?

A surprising study behind if men fake orgasms in sexual encounters! Though many of these sexual studies look at the female demographic, this is one of the first to examine the male perspective

socializing kittens 🐱

she’s back to fostering! Despite persistent health issues going on with me rn I wanted to help out my favorite local shelter (currently underwater with kitten season) by socializing some hissy ki...

And that’s a wrap on Sophie!

I spent so much of this shoot ill beyond belief (kudos to the unmasked man coughing into the open air in the seat in front of me on the plane). After many 16 hour days, a bug that flew into my eye,...

early access: men fall in love twice as fast as women

early access: how a woman dresses affects how other women view their male friendships

want female friends? then dress like a tomboy! says a recent study about gender expression in spaces of intrasexual competition.

early access: cursing means you're f*cking honest, according to study