Results for: meet up
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Is the Resurgence of Feminist Bookstores in the South a Moment or a Movement?
Visit five feminist bookstores across the south east that are creating community building and political organizing space as well as curating feminist literature written by authors from different backgrounds holding often marginalized identities.
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Queered & Careered: 4 Questions to Build Up Your Brand While We’re at Home
Everyone builds or maintains their brand every time they walk into a room. The issue is that right now we’re walking into less and less rooms.
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Queered & Careered: Five Unconventional Ways to Honor Yourself at Work
Honoring yourself is about creating fun, rejuvenating, life affirming practices that help you stay grounded and practice self-compassion. They should join you in life, and in work.
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Queered & Careered: 10 Tips on Working From Home in the Era of Social Distancing
Since working from home is a part of the national call to practice social distancing, many of us are also navigating loneliness, restlessness, and anxiety. Here are a few tips that can help you on your journey.
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PERSONALS App Brings an Old School Dyke Dating Format Into a Hot New Future, Thanks Instagram
Your favorite queer Instagram dating account has changed its name to be more inclusive, is creating an app just for you, and is hosting a party in NYC to kickoff its crowdfunding efforts Wednesday night, June 13! Read our interview with creator Kelly Rakowski for all the hot details!
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“Good Company” Is the Best Magazine a Queer Aspirant Could Ever Dream Of
“Good Company,” a new magazine from Design*Sponge’s Grace Bonney, is a radically diverse incredible new project you should support ALSO I JUST SO HAPPEN TO BE FEATURED IN ONE OF THE ARTICLES.
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Meet Me at Cuties: The Queer-Owned LA Coffee Bar that Puts Community First
I sat down with Cuties founders Iris and Virginia to talk about finding community, running a commercial space, and how to hold community members accountable.
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Rebecca Alexander Is the Queer Fat Woman Behind AllGo, an App That Will Change the World for People of Size
AllGo is a review platform created by a queer fat woman where people of size can give and receive information about the comfort and accessibility of public spaces.
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Follow Your Arrow: Mushroom Grower Marita Smith on Patience, Permaculture and Petri Dishes
“When I started out, people knew me as the ‘girl growing mushrooms in her caravan,’ which was perhaps not the most flattering anecdote to have attached to your name.”
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Roundtable: Our Long and Winding Career Paths
“When I was 10, I wrote a letter to Disney asking them what I should do to become an imagineer.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Hinterland’s Jolene and Trinia on Doing Business With Your Partner
The line between work and life is definitely blurred. Work events become social events, chance meetings become networking and because we are always wearing Hinterland gear and up to no good, theres always an opportunity for a photo shoot!
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Follow Your Arrow: “Great British Bake Off” Star Ruby Tandoh Shares Her Love of Food
“I wish there were more LGBTQ food writers, though — it can be a pretty stiflingly traditional (read: heteronormative, and very white) world. Find a network of like-minded queer women to work with, seek advice from and befriend! We gotta stick together.”
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Follow Your Arrow: #periodpositive Creator Chella Quint on Challenging Taboos With Joy
“I’m psyched that I invented a thing, and I don’t wish to make money from it. I just want to try to retain a little influence over it with the support of fellow taboo-busters so we can make some changes around here.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Entrepreneur Alyah Baker on Uplifting Queer, Trans, POC Makers and Brands
“After 13 years of corporate work I just needed to do something that felt like it mattered to me and to the communities that I was part of. I’m passionate about self expression, human connection, building community, and subverting the status quo by creating environments and experiences where women, POC, and queer and trans folks are prioritized.”
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Walking and Talking, Kicking and Screaming: An Interview with Ruth Curry of Emily Books
“If I saw my writing career through the eyes of a mediocre white man I’d be, like, that dude would be fucking high on himself constantly.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Designer Sarah Gottesdiener On Creating Feminist Propaganda
“I offer products that strive to act as feminist propaganda, as a reality disruption. To pay my gargantuan monthly student loan debt by selling weird feminist gear? It seemed like an awesome joke on the universe.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Natural Builder Barbara Jones on 35 Years in Construction
“I’m doing something I really believe in, that can change people’s lives for ever, that’s good for the planet. I never get tired of talking about how to use natural materials, why they work, and looking at how they were used in the past.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Gym Owner Nathalie Huerta on Hard F*cking Work
“I didn’t get any funding until year three and it came from a member who truly believed in me. Now in year six, funding opportunities are coming from multiple places, thank you baby Jesus, but all of those opportunities are coming my way from relationships I have formed, not from banks or investors.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Dog Trainer Mary Tully on Clear, Loving Communication
“I knew I wanted to train animals by the age of 3. I didn’t know that I wanted to start this business until 3 years ago.”
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Follow Your Arrow: Artist and Priestess Rebekah Erev on Making Spirituality Accessible to All
“I think a lot of us [queers] have turned to art as a place to find meaning and access other realms. Art explains the unexplainable and gives us a space to explore the mysteries we are so fascinated by.”