imaan shaikh

(dog maama)

for hire

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recent work

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recent work ☆

Infrequently Asked Questions

  • i’m imaan. i am friendly.

  • yes.

  • i’m a copywriter with a vendetta against uninspired, out-of-touch advertising. i’d like to be part of the next generation of branding—one that champions honest reliability over forced relatability.

    i also make music videos under the moniker “dog maama.” dog maama is an artistic self-caricature with a penchant for genre-hopping.

    you can check out my copywriting portfolio and my music projects using the links at the top of this page.

  • i’m a virgo. sorry.

  • ya.

  • i is a dog maama. i make music under the stage name “dog maama” because i both have that dog in me and i feed the children (despite being neither a dog nor a mother).

    follow the link at the top of the page to learn more about dog maama.

  • i am sometimes, yeah. but then i remind myself that personal growth is not supposed to be comfortable. growing up in my world, creative self-expression was kind of frowned upon. now that i’m an adult, i pride myself on having the confidence to embrace my crazy. i will always continue to be too much. it is a privilege to be too much. even when it gets hard and feels too embarrassing. i will never stop being too much.

  • everything i do is for a reason. some may question my emboldened choices but they all come from an informed place— my big damp and wrinkly brain.

  • maybe the universe is telling you that we could be good friends. we could go on picnics together. eat fresh fruit. spend the day just lollygagging around. you know? it could be nice.

  • born to pakistani parents in montréal, quebec. been living in richmond, virginia for the past 10 years.

  • i like to touch my dog with one or both of my hands. i also enjoy cooking and riding my bike. i listen to a bunch of music as well. sometimes i make playlists.

  • i actually don’t really like apples that much. don’t get me wrong i love a good apple pie or a strudel or a fritter of some sort. but straight apples are weird to me. it’s like eating slightly sweet styrofoam. if you’re an apple company don’t ask me to write an ad for you, i don’t really like apples. unless you are apple, like the tech company. in which case definitely ask me to write an ad for you. people will like it way more than they like eating apples.

  • yeah buddy!

  • i shouldn’t have pretended to have a crush on mel gibson when i was in middle school. i thought it was funny at the time because all my friends were crushing on hunky swoop-haired heartthrobs like zac efron or josh hutchinson. i did it for the bit but unfortunately many people didn’t get that it was a bit. now a lot of old classmates probably still think of me as the girl who had a crush on mel gibson. i swear i did not have a crush on him. i just thought it would be funny to say that i did.

  • i was born on this planet and i will die on this planet. i can do literally anything i want and no one can stop me. i could crab walk in the middle of times square and you couldn’t say a thing about it. free will is my fuel and the world is my highway.

  • no. tell me.

  • i had a weird childhood. i guess i’m just trying to make up for all those lonely years i spent feeling scared and sorry for myself.

  • my favorite color is the best color, which is purple.

  • absolutely not.

  • no. i am friendly.

  • you can do that. scroll up to the “contact” link to get in touch with me. or just follow the trail of crumbs leading out of your local sandwich shop. turn left at the big tree and keep going until you hear an owl and a bumblebee at the same time. then turn in a counter clockwise circle three times and say “i wish my best friend imaan was here.” then i’ll emerge from the ground covered in dirt, holding a vanilla ice cream cone topped with rainbow sprinkles that is somehow still perfectly intact. and then i’ll say, “you came! you really came.” then we’ll kiss to break the tension. then you can talk to me about whatever it is you needed.

i am not ai generated

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i am not ai generated ☆