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Dr. Adrienne Keene is part Cherokee, part ivy-league scholar, and part superwoman. She’s starting as a professor in American Studies at Brown University and runs a blog that we’re all looking at called Native Appropriations. The blog has been around for a hot minute and it’s full of Native positive representations, contemporary designers and art. Adrienne also talks pop culture––like when…
Professor Ashon Crawley chose a compassionate path on Twitter when dealing with the homophobic nonsense that Kim Burrell said. Ellen at Race Ahead shared the conversation and breaks it down: “…Ashon did a remarkable job unpacking the complexity of being a gay person of color trying to exist within a Christian community that condemns you with impunity. ‘It’s easy to…
Linda Sarsour won’t sit still, or be quiet. Unlike some common Muslim female stereotypes, she isn’t afraid to speak her mind and make sh*t happen. Yes, she’s from Brooklyn. “My faith informs my role and commitment to standing up against injustice,” she said in July. This mama of three has her finger on the pulse of the nation. Her secret…
Chris and Courtney Rhodes have one goal with their clothing line FLAVNT (pronounced ‘flaunt’): to promote confidence in the LGBTQ community. They are doing this one styling piece of clothing at a time. The Bareskin Binder is the newest brainchild for these Austin-based identical twins. It’s a swimwear line dedicated to making female-to-male trans folks feel confident when catching some…
Donovan Livingston delivered a speech at his Harvard graduation and it went viral. It wasn’t a normal speech – it was a poem. The audience hushed as they listened intently. He spoke of racism in the education system, and how vital it is to offer each person an equal opportunity to learn and grow, regardless of their skin color. What…
Ali Al Sayed grew up feeling lost and out of place in Israel – stuck between lands and languages, trapped. He learned that to be heard, humor was essential. Sayed’s an Arab-Israeli writer that lives and teaches in Chicago. He wrote Israel’s first prime time T.V. show to feature an Arab family. His biggest success though is his beautiful, evolving…
All over the nation, art galleries are disappearing, and they’re taking a part of America’s creative spirit with them as they go. Luckily, there are people and places like writer/curator Christian Frock and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA). They’re creating solutions to problems facing art and culture, like using art itself to talk about them. ‘Take This Hammer’, which…
Good things are brewing in Colorado. Lots of beer of course, but also sustainable business models where employees are rewarded for their commitment. Kim Jordan, the founder of New Belgium Brewing, shifted the company over to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), where the workers start accruing stock after a year of employment. Essentially, the $225 million business is mostly…
That’s a quote by German writer, Bertolt Brecht, and it fits just right with SF’s Yerba Buena Center for the Art’s recent exhibition. Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes – Dignidad Rebelde, collectively – want to put that hammer into the hands of communities struggling under the weight of history. Their posters are beautiful and powerful. They’re framed in museums, coveted…
It’s 1961, 11-year-old Ed Welburn sits in his bedroom surrounded by car posters and scattered pieces of model kits. Instructions for the kits overflow a trashcan in the corner. Ed’s a creative kid from outside of Philly with a love for designing model cars. He’s writing a letter to a General Motors exec, it says, “I hope to work there…
