About Victoria ✨
HOST, PODCASTER & WRITER
Victoria L. Johnson is a host, podcaster, and writer with over ten years of experience reporting on music, anime, comic books, and film/TV. Her byline can be found in several outlets, including Complex, Teen Vogue, Vulture, Polygon, Mashable, and VIBE.
Victoria currently hosts the Sailor Moon Fan Club podcast, a four-year-long running show where she interviews incredible Sailor Moon fans. Previous guests include Saweetie, Baby Tate, Terri Hawkes, and Mercedes Moné (Sasha Banks). The podcast has been featured in Mic and Insider, nominated for a Black Podcasting Award, and named by Nerdist as one of the “18 Geek and Nerd Podcasts with Outstanding Black Hosts” and Audible as one of the “The Best Anime Podcasts for Enthusiasts and Newcomers Alike.“ Before the Sailor Moon Fan Club podcast, Victoria co-hosted the Nerds on Hip-Hop podcast from 2015 to 2019, where she explored the connections between nerd culture and hip-hop with and beatmaker TheWolvesDen.
Victoria regularly produces and moderates panels for conventions, including San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic Con, and Anime NYC.
She also produced and moderated the popular panels “Black Trailblazers in the Anime Industry” and “Nerds on Hip-Hop: Bridging the Gap Between Anime and Hip-Hop,” among others.
Victoria is also writing MAGICAL BEATS, a hip-hop-inspired magical girls comic book and an untitled YA novel about a Black girl detective.
WHAT I'M WORKING ON ✨
WHAT I'M WORKING ON ✨
Victoria has over ten years of experience reporting on music, anime, comic books, and film/TV. Her byline can be found in several outlets, including Complex, Teen Vogue, Vulture, Polygon, Mashable, and VIBE. She also worked as a copyeditor for Gladiolus Magazine and The Gift. Some of her recent pieces include:
A Beginner’s Guide on Getting Into Cosplay as a Black Person in OkayPlayer
“How Sailor Moon’s Aesthetic Influenced the Worlds of Fashion and Beauty” in TEEN VOGUE
What Makes ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’ So Special? in PBS Soundfield
Victoria is currently working on a hip-hop-inspired magical girls comic book, MAGICAL BEATS, and a YA novel about a Black girl detective. MAGICAL BEATS was a semifinalist for Negative Space Comics’ Women’s Comic Book Writing Competition.
Victoria regularly produces and moderates panels for conventions, including San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic Con, and Anime NYC. Some of her popular panels include:
Celebrating 30 Years of Sailor Moon
Celebrating 25 Years of Toonami
Black Trailblazers in the Anime Industry
Nerds on Hip-Hop: Bridging the Gap Between Anime and Hip-Hop
Join the Sailor Moon Fan Club
Join the Sailor Moon Fan Club
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Victoria hosts the Sailor Moon Fan Club podcast, where she interviews incredible fans of the ’90s franchise including bestselling authors, comic book and manga creators, cosplayers, voice actors, musicians, and more.
Previous guests include:
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