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The Art Institute of Chicago presents Mimi Cherono Ng'ok: Closer to the Earth, Closer to My Own Body on view June 18, 2021 through February 7, 2022. For more than a decade, Mimi Cherono Ng'ok has worked to understand how natural environments, botanical cultures, and human subjects coexist and evolve together. Working with an analog camera, she travels extensively across the tropical climates of the Global South constructing a visual archive of images that document her daily experiences and aid her in processing emotions and memories. For this solo museum exhibition in the United States, Che...

Rolling Stone Sufjan Stevens, Angelo De Augustine Preview LP With Two New Songs “Reach Out” and “Olympus” appear on A Beginner’s Mind Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine have announced their new collaborative album, A Beginner’s Mind. The LP arrives on September 24th via Asthmatic Kitty and it’s available for preorder. The duo began working on songs for the album while at a friend’s cabin in upstate New York, loosely basing the material on films they were watching. They each built upon the other’s songwriting in tandem, with one writing a verse, the other taki...

Katie welcomes her first flesh-and-blood guest to the studio for over a year! It’s comedian, speaker and author Mandy Nolan, who is in town for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to do a show with Irish-Australian singer-songwriter Áine Tyrrell. Mandy and Áine live in Mullumbimby, near Byron Bay, and have been performing their Country Witches Association show around Australia since late 2019. Katie gets Áine on the phone and the three women have a yarn about feminism, politics, music, comedy and more. There’s also music by Áine, Valerie June, Hot Potato Band and Charm of Finc...

March 2, 2021 MACOMB, IL -- The Women's Center at Western Illinois University will celebrate Women's History Month 2021 throughout March with a wide variety of events planned. This year's schedule includes: • Monday, March 8, 6-7 p.m. – "Meet Me at my Intersections; Navigating Spaces as a Black Queer Woman." Keynote speaker Tamika Austin will discuss navigating spaces as a Black, Queer Woman – the address will be virtual at wiu.zoom.us/j/95851078502 and registration can be completed on PurplePost. For additional information, contact Taylor Ziegler at tl-zeigler@wiu.edu. • T...

Copy Link Luna Guzmán left Guatemala four years ago with the goal of reaching California. She had to face violence and sexual harassment while she was detained in a migrant detention center near San Diego and was later infected with COVID-19 while she waited for her asylum process in Tijuana.  (Courtest of Luna Guzmán) When she turned 15, like so many girls in her town in Guatemala, Luna Guzmán celebrated with a quinceañera. “My friend lent me the dress because she saw the way I used to cry every time we passed the dress shop on the way to school, with all those beautiful dresses,�...