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Mikaela Sheldt Finds Catharsis in Painting Human Emotions

One day, when Mikaela Sheldt was 17, she came home from physics class and began painting on her bedroom walls. She had never considered herself an artist before but her mother had bought her art supplies and something just clicked. This practice stayed in her periphery, but it wasn’t until she graduated from Agnes Scott – a women’s college in…

Shayne Oliver, Genius Behind Gender-Bending HOOD BY AIR

How do you make it in America? You hustle. And Shayne Oliver is a hustler in every sense of the word. The gender-bending creator of HOOD BY AIR – the biggest and most legit street-inspired high fashion line in the world – grew up with a single mom, no money and absolutely zero regard for what anyone said that meant…

Claudette Colvin, Original Woman Who Refused to Give Up Her Seat

Most history books forget that Claudette Colvin is an African-American who refused to give up her seat on the bus, nine months before Rosa Parks. It was March 2nd, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Colvin paid her fare and refused to get up from the seat for a white woman. She’d been studying Black history in high school that month…

The Maiden Voyage, an LGBTQ Children’s Book

The second children’s book in an inclusive series about LGBTQ adventurers debuts in June 2018, after their November Kickstarter campaign raised $4,000 more than their $40,000 goal. Readers have been waiting for this story for a very long time. The Maiden Voyage is a fairytale following a fisherman’s daughter, Ru, who is given a treasure map by her father and…

‘Movement Art Is’ Believes Performance is the Antidote for Anger

Movement Art Is (MAI) knows that performance art is a universal language that connects folks on a plane beyond geography, origin, or background. This organization—founded by two guys who’ve been dancing since they were small—pushes the boundaries of what performance can be through classes, performances, films, and exhibitions. They call it ‘resetting the spectrum of what dance can be’, integrating…