Dasha Nekrasova is a Belarusian-American actress, fashion model, writer, and co-host of the podcastRed Scare. In 2018, she became known as "Sailor Socialism" after her interview with an InfoWars reporter went viral.
Early life
Nekrasova was born in Minsk, Belarus to parents who worked as acrobats. She emigrated to the United States with her parents when she was four, settling in Las Vegas, Nevada. She attended high school at Las Vegas Academy of the Arts, graduating in 2008, before attending Mills College, where she studied sociology and philosophy. In 2015 Nekrasova self-published a book of poetry, Feeling Worse About the Same.
Career
Nekrasova appeared in a number of low-budget short films, features and music videos before her breakthrough role in Wobble Palace, which she co-wrote with director Eugene Kotlyarenko. The film was positively received by critics and nominated for the 2018 SXSWAdam Yauch Hörnblowér Award. She received praise by The Hollywood Reporter for her performance in the film Softness of Bodies, and will appear in Black Earth, the directorial debut of Riley Sweeney Lynch, son of David Lynch. In 2018, Nekrasova received viral attention after the right-wing media outletInfoWars interviewed her in March 2018 at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, where she was promoting Wobble Palace. Her dismissive attitude and Japanese schoolgirl outfit earned her the sobriquet "Sailor Socialism". The clip was featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. On March 29, 2018, Nekrasova started the cultural commentary podcast Red Scare, with co-host Anna Khachiyan. The show has been associated with the dirtbag left and described in The Cut as "a critique of feminism, and capitalism, from deep inside the culture they’ve spawned." Nekrasova is a promoter of "Venmo feminism". The show has featured guest appearances by several notable writers, artists, social commentators and leftist figures, including Angela Nagle, Vanessa Place, Simon Reynolds, Juliana Huxtable, Ariana Reines, Chapo Trap HouseAmber A'Lee Frost, Tulsi Gabbard and Glenn Greenwald, as well as conservative personalities, such as Ross Douthat and Steve Bannon. Nekrasova and Khachiyan have hosted the show at The Green Space at WNYC & WQXR for a live broadcast on NPR and in September 2019, interviewed social media influencerCaroline Calloway live at the Bell House in Brooklyn. Nekrasova first gained a podcasting following for her appearances on Cum Town,; her former fiancé, Adam Friedland, is one of the co-hosts. Additionally, she appeared on Chapo Trap House, The Special Without Brett Davis, The Sitdown w/ Mike Recine,The Book Sluts Podcast, and Not Really Podcast. In 2019, she appeared in an episode of Mr. Robot and had a voice-over performance as Klaasje in the role-playing video gameDisco Elysium.
