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 '''Bunny Michael''' is an American visual artist, musician, and rapper, known online for their "Me and My Higher Self" memes.<ref name="Alejandra">{{Cite web |title=Bunny Michael's Spiritual Memes Will Help You Find Your Higher Self |last=Alejandra |first=Itzel |work=Remezcla |date=9 January 2018 |access-date=2 May 2020 |url= https://remezcla.com/lists/culture/bunny-michael-memes-self-love/}}</ref> They describe these memes as "messages of self-love and expressions of how we can all treat ourselves better".<ref name="Rose">{{Cite web |title=Bunny Michael on Spiritual Sexuality and Transcending Gender |last=Rose |first=Annie |work=Posture Media |date=16 January 2017 |access-date=2 May 2020 |url= http://posturemag.com/online/bunny-michael-interview/}}</ref>
+==Early life==
+Bunny Michael was raised in Dallas, Texas.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thefader.com/2016/12/20/bunny-michael-meme-interview|title=Meet Bunny Michael, The Artist Whose Tragicomic Memes Say What Everyone Is Feeling|last=Saxelby|first=Ruth|date=December 20, 2016|website=The FADER|language=en|access-date=2019-01-04}}</ref> They are the middle of three children born to a second-generation Mexican-American father and a Samoan mother. They were raised in an affluent suburb. Michael attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. They realized they were queer at the age of fifteen and stated that [[coming out]] to their family was a difficult process. Michael briefly moved in with their first girlfriend's family. They have since reconciled with their family. Michael graduated from Marymount Manhattan College.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bunny-michael-selfie-help-guru_us_5a625d79e4b0dc592a08a171|title=The Selfie-Help Guru Healing Millennials On Instagram|last=Frank|first=Priscilla|date=2018-02-01|work=Huffington Post|access-date=2019-01-04|language=en-US}}</ref>
+== Career ==
+Michael is a visual artist, musician, and rapper<ref name=":0" /> whose work often examines the relationship between the masculine and feminine, the body and the soul, and the self and higher self.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://posturemag.com/online/bunny-michael-interview/|title=Posture Magazine champions underrepresented creators and entrepreneurs|date=2017-01-16|website=Posture Media|access-date=2020-02-06}}</ref> After graduating from college, they shared their music through Myspace. Michael was the vocalist performing by the name Bunny Rabbit with producer Black Cracker. It is described by ''HuffPost'' as an "eponymous experimental rap collaboration." Bunny Rabbit toured with CocoRosie and gained praise from New Yorker critic Sasha Frere-Jones who stated in 2007, "I am fond of the deeply odd, occasionally obscene art rap of Bunny Rabbit."<ref name=":1" />
+Michael garnered a large fan base through Myspace which allowed them to book their own U.S. tour.<ref name=":1" />
+Michael was working as a waiter in 2017.<ref name=":1" /> In 2018, Michael went on tour in Europe with Fever Ray.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/39401/1/bunny-michael-higher-self-interview|title=Bunny Michael is the meme-making, psychedelic rapper touring with Fever Ray|last=Bulut|first=Selim|date=2018-03-16|website=Dazed|language=en|access-date=2019-01-04}}</ref>
+They are known for their "Me and My Higher Self" memes on Instagram which started when Michael was undergoing a major spiritual transformation of their own.<ref name=":0" /> This project is aimed at increasing self-love,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.out.com/art-books/2017/7/29/bunny-michaels-selfhigher-self-memes-spread-message-self-love|title=Bunny Michael's 'Self/Higher Self' Memes Spread a Message of Self-Love|last=Dommu|first=Rose|date=2017-07-29|website=Out|language=en|access-date=2019-01-04}}</ref> and much like Michael's music and visual art,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/gywqnx/these-memes-are-the-queer-uplifting-answer-to-evil-kermit|title=these memes are the queer, uplifting answer to evil kermit|last=Baritaux|first=Zio|date=2017-12-21|website=i-D|language=en|access-date=2020-02-05}}</ref> also explores the multiplicities within the self.<ref name=":0" /> ''Remezcla'' reports that Michael is a "queer multimedia artist...[who] utilizes music, art videos, and memes as their mediums to explore themes of self love and acceptance, spirituality, and sexuality in a time when our 'deepest truths are being revealed'."<ref name="Alejandra" />
+Michael is the host of “Broadly Hotline,” a web series on Broadly.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/style/bunny-michael-rapper-vice-show.html|title=Bunny Michael Is a Rapper and Meme Maker|last=Oswaks|first=Molly|date=2018-08-15|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-01-04|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
+Michael is currently working on starting a podcast centered around self-care, personal growth, and other millennial-related topics.<ref name=":2" />
+Michael appeared in two seasons of the HBO series ''High Maintenance''.
+== Personal life ==
+Michael moved to New York City one week before the September 11 attacks in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |title=Interview with Bunny Michael |url=http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-depravity-issue/life/bunny-michael |publisher=Mask Magazine |accessdate=1 September 2019}}</ref> Michael now lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with fiancée Khara Gilvey and a cat named Pepper.<ref name=":2" />
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