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Felicia Folkes, IG: @FelFatale

Try not to love Folkes – I dare you. She’s raw emotion, and so authentic. It never feels like she’s performing – she’s sharing. She’s letting you in. She self describes as, “”A young black women trapped in an Auntie’s body.” But, to be honest, she seems to have the wisdom of an auntie, too, which is hilarious set against some of the awkward social situations she describes getting into on stage. In one bit, Folkes talks about how a friend gave her flirting advice, telling her to make eye contact with a man she likes. But she doesn’t like eye contact. “Don’t look at my eyes…my SOUL is in there. My DAD is in there! You want to talk to him?” But she did try the trick, and describes, in one of my favorite stories of her, exchanging glances with a guy…who eventually thought she wanted to fight him. If you had no idea that bit was going there that’s because Folkes isn’t like anybody else and nobody is like her. Bless her for it.