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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…
Phillis Frye is a highly respected judge, and also the first transgendered judge in Texas. She’s been the first person to do a lot of things – like spearhead the repeal of Houston’s anti-crossdressing law in 1980 and insist on using the women’s bathroom at her university (now a hauntingly familiar conversation). After publicly assuming her chosen gender in 1976 at…
Maggie Rogers’ single ‘Alaska’ is causing chatter – it’s fresh and edgy, different from what she grew up playing. Maggie, soft-spoken and humble, totally deserves the praise. Inspired by her outdoorsy Maryland childhood paired with a new love for dance music after a trip to France, the piece is its own beast. When artist and producer Pharrell heard…
Describing Elie Wiesel as a Nobel laureate and a Holocaust survivor is like describing Jackie Robinson as a guy who played baseball. It doesn’t cut it. Elie changed people. He found hope in places where we thought hope couldn’t, and maybe shouldn’t, exist. He will forever be a reminder that no matter how dark times get there is light. He’s a…
Every 4 years countries around the world send their best athletes to represent them in the Olympic games. But what happens when a world-class athlete has no country? Introducing the Olympics’ first all-refugee team. At year’s Summer Olympics in Brazil, a team of 10 refugees will be carrying the Olympic flag in the opening ceremony. It’s the first refugee squad…
Jasmine Twitty is 25 years-old and sharp as a tack. And guess what? True commitment – like the working-seven-days-a-week kind – and a whole lot of brains have earned her the spot one of the youngest judges in South Carolina. It wasn’t the easiest thing she’s ever done, and she had to work around many discouraging words along the way,…
You should take the subway just for the small chance you may catch this charismatic trio swinging from the bars of a car. These kids take the art of street performance to a whole new gravity-denying level. They’re good, stunningly good, and their dedication to their craft is as apparent in their smiles as it is in their choreography. “When…
