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What do a NYC fashionista and a Pakistani millennial have in common? Ali Hassoun is ready to show ya. He’s a juxtaposition wizard whose paintings cut to the root of what makes us, well, us. Take the fashionista and the…
Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a two-day celebration of life and death that takes place in early November. The indigenous Mexican holiday demonstrates respect to those who are deceased and celebrates those who are living. It can be raucous but also deeply beautiful and moving. A brief history of the celebration The holiday originates from the…
Maysoon Zayid is a woman of many talents. This comedian, disability activist, and actress just revealed the development of a new show called ‘Can-Can’, soon to air on ABC. Cue the applause. Zayid, both the lead and co-producer of the show, wrote the script based on her own life as an American-Palestinian Muslim woman with Cerebral Palsy. Other executive producers include Sean Hayes of “Will & Grace”, Joanna Quraishi, and Hazy Mills. View this post on Instagram #Palestine #represent A post shared by Maysoon Zayid (@maysoonzayid) on Aug 1, 2018 at 4:52am PDT Less than 2…
Last week, Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for his fourth LP, “DAMN.” This is the first time a Pulitzer hasn’t gone to a classical or jazz artist, and the country is freaking out (in a good way.) The Pulitzer board called the album “a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes…
When she’s not fulfilling her duties as a sophomore student at Harvard University, 19-year-old Amanda Gorman moonlights as a poet, and a really good one too. In fact, she was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate.…
The idea came to Shaheryar Malik when he was taking a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and felt the urge to take a selfie. Then he stopped himself – this was the photo everyone took. Who would it actually be for? Would this really bring him joy? He didn’t take the photo and decided to do something else instead. He brought eight…
Dear readers, We’d like to introduce you to a friend from across the pond. Alison Rachel, an artist who creates zines and illustrations about self-acceptance, sat down to have a chat with New Sincerity. Read, enjoy, give her a follow on Instagram, and maybe buy someone you love a zine. Photo: Alison Rachel Tell me a little…
In 2011, Topher White was hiking in an Indonesian rainforest when he happened upon an illegal logger cutting down trees, masked by the sound of birds and bugs. Declining rainforests is a big contributing factor to climate change, and the UN reported that 90% of deforestation is illegal. On seeing this illegal logger, White, who used to work as a…
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…
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…
