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Presenting a Podcasting Panel @ Queer Hustle 2019

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I put together a panel on podcasting for the Queer Hustle conference taking place in NYC April 26th – 28th 2019.
My panel will be on Sunday April 28th at 3:30pm. You can get tickets here.

I invited Jocelyn K. Glei, Bailey Richardson and Eboné Bell to join me to talk about the amazing work they are doing and how they are using podcasts to elevate their work.

Read more about them below!

Jocelyn K. Glei is obsessed with how we can find more creativity and meaning in our daily work. She created the online course RESET, a cosmic tune-up for your workday, and hosts Hurry Slowly, a podcast about how you can be more productive, creative, and resilient by slowing down. Jocelyn has published numerous books for creative folks, including Manage Your Day-to-Day, Make Your Mark, and Unsubscribe. Previously, she was the founding editor of the Webby Award-winning 99u.com website and director of the 99U Conference. She lives in Brooklyn with an introverted dog and an extroverted cat.

Bailey Richardson has spent the last 5 years studying people who have built rich, thriving communities.With her partners at People & Company, their mission is to help people bring their people together. They interview extraordinary organizers on their new podcast  “The Get-Together” and will publish a book this summer on how to build a community today. Before People & Company, Bailey shaped the early community at Instagram, where she was the 8th employee. She has also worked at IDEO, StoryCorps, Pop-Up Magazine and the California Sunday Magazine.

Eboné F. Bell is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Tagg Magazine and Tagg Communication. After seeing a lack of queer women represented in local publications (around DMV), she decided to start a magazine and website to tell our stories, provide resources and create events. Before starting Tagg, in 2002 she founded the first group for queer people of color called True Colors of Maryland (TCOM) at University of Maryland College Park. The group is still thriving today and meet weekly. After college, she immediately immersed herself in the Washington Metropolitan Area LGBTQ community for several years. Eboné has produced such events as the annual Capital Queer Prom giving the older LGBTQ community a second-chance prom, Capital Pride Women’s Events, Pride in the Sky, and the Put on the Gloves Fashion Show benefitting The Trevor Project. These events have raised over $20,000 for LGBTQ non-profit organizations. Tagg Magazine has been around for over six years, telling thousands of stories, creating safe-spaces for  queer women, and providing important resources for the LGBTQ community. Over the past three years, Tagg Magazine as been named “Top 25 LGBTQ-Owned Companies” by the Washington Business Journal. Last year, Eboné founded the Tagg Scholarship Fund—a scholarship created specifically for young queer woman of color who can’t afford to attend school. After realizing that only 23% of Black LGBTQ college students graduate, she wanted to make a difference within marginalized communities. While running Tagg, she still manages to lend her time to volunteer efforts in the Washington, D.C. area. Last year she served as the Table Captain Co-Chair for the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner. Also, she has served on the board of the Capital Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber, creating the first women’s networking series in Washington, DC. Tagg also continues to promote and support such organizations as SMYAL and The Point Foundation focusing on LGBTQ youth. Eboné has expanded Tagg through podcasting: Tagg Nation, a podcast for everything lesbian, queer, and under the rainbow. The three host, weekly podcast show dives into pop culture, politics, stories, LGBTQ educational issues, and queer history.

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Creative funding: finding, choosing, billing, and getting paid.

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On Thursday, July 18th 2013, I was a guest on Heritage Radio’s After the Jump program which is hosted by Design*Sponge founder Grace Bonney. On the show we talked about being paid what you’re worth, ways to fund creative projects, the role gender plays when it comes to doing work for free and overall the struggle of making a living as a content producer. I really enjoy talking about these topics with Grace because she has been running Design*Sponge for about 10 years and has seen the blogging industry go through various phases.

You can listen to the interview on iTunes or stream it on Heritage Radio. Please feel free to chime in on the conversation by leaving a comment over at Design*Sponge.

Also, I was super stoked that 99u (one of my favorite blogs) tweeted about the interview!

Feminist Playing Cards included in “Let’s Start a Pussy Riot” Book / NYC Book Launch

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My Feminist Playing Card project is featured in a new book that just came out recently titled “Let’s Start a Pussy Riot” (Rough Trade Books). The book was created in collaboration with Pussy Riot and links together the events leading up to and after the group’s arrest and the themes that these courageous women fight for – feminism, LGBTQ rights, freedom of speech and the environment.

The initial book launch took place at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown Festival this year in London. The NYC launch will take place on Sunday, July 14th 2013 from 7-9pm at Bluestockings (172 Allen St, NYC). I was asked to be on a panel discussion about art as activism at the event with editor Jade French, Kembra Pfhaler, and Anne Sherwood Pundyk. There will also be a performance from Jeffrey Lewis and a poetry reading by Vivien Goldman.

RSVP & invite your friends on Facebook.

The book is SUPER thick. You can get an idea by the photo above which includes an iPhone next to it so you can see how much thicker the book is.

The page that the Feminist Playing Cards are featured on folds out into a spread.

Featured in Go Magazine’s “100 Women We Love”

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I’m quite honored to be featured in Go Magazine’s “100 Women We Love” feature in their latest Pride Issue. I’m listed alongside some pretty badass babes like Scream Club, Hannah Hart, Liz Feldman, and a whole bunch of other amazing women! You can read the blurb about me here or pick up a copy near you!

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Also, shout out to my good buddy Channing Duke who took the photo of me that’s featured in the article. Channing also started Pink Sheep Film Festival with me and continues to do a kickass job organizing it. The Pink Sheep Film Festival held its 3rd annual Pride event last Friday and I’m so proud of all the hard work Channing has done to pull it all together!

Published on HuffingtonPost, TimeOut NewYork + More

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I recently had my third article published on the Huffington Post. The article is about North Carolina-based band Mount Moriah and includes photos I took at a recent concert in Brooklyn.

I was recently interviewed by the Vessel Collective about my projects, mostly Homoground & Feminist Playing Cards, as well as insight into my processes and inspiration.

Homoground had its first NYC party on Sunday, December 2nd and was featured on the Gay & Lesbian section of TimeOut NewYork (print version below).

All my projects in one place.

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This website is pretty new. I was tired of having all of the different things that I do in so many different places. The goal of this site is to showcase all of the projects and work that I do, while allowing me to share my own personal experiences and processes. So this website will be updated on a continuous basis as my projects grow. Right now, I am mostly in the phase of putting all of my projects into my Portfolio. I will continue to add to those as I hit milestones in those projects, but I will also be tracking progress, learnings and experiences via my blog.

Here’s a breakdown of what’s been added around here so far:

Projects added to my portfolio: 

 

I also learned a few things about the weather; that moving to the North doesn’t exempt you from hurricanes and that every time something good happens to Obama it snows.