Sharine Taylor.
Sharine Taylor is an award-winning, Toronto-based writer, critic, editor, producer, web designer and director, as well as the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of BASHY Magazine.
Her combined passions for writing, archiving, media creating and curating has made her a credible source for pop culture commentary and criticism, and a trusted voice for the latest in Jamaican music and culture.
Her breadth of knowledge has given her opportunities to be a featured panelist at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canadian Music Week and at Sony Music (Canada); a moderator for Nuit Blanche; and a guest on CBC’s The Current, amongst other opportunities to speak about Black, Jamaican and/or Caribbean cultural production.
Sharine is an alumna of VICE’s 2017 editorial internship program, Allied Media Conference’s 2018 Movement Journalism mentorship program, and was awarded the 2019 Magazine’s Canada fellowship where she fulfilled her term as the Assistant Web Editor at Azure Magazine.
Her bylines have appeared on Red Bull Music Academy, Dazed, Nylon, Noisey, The FADER, Hazlitt, Shondaland, BuzzFeed, Pitchfork, and other notable publications.