culture
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Trans girl Zoey dedicates her quinceañera to her trans godmothers.
A quinceañera is a Latin American tradition celebrating a girl’s coming of age on her 15th birthday. Zoey a Mexican/American living in Los Angeles however is a little difference as she is a transgender girl. She is dedicating her quinceañera to her trans godmothers who helped her through her transitioning but who never got…
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Wynwood can bring out the artist in you
Don’t want to cope with all the crowds in Miami’s Wynwood Art District next week when Art Basel moves into town, then why don’t you stay at home and let the art come to you? Not only can you create the same art (well almost the same) as in the colorful murals that hug…
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BONE ISLAND : Bare It All
If ‘clothing optional’ resorts are a tad tame for you, the perhaps you should make tracks this weekend down to Key West for the biannual BONE ISLAND BARE IT ALL EVENT where clothing is banned. Started 11 years ago by Canadian expat Dean Townsend (known locally as The Naked Realtor ) as a way…
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Becoming Dr Ruth: an affectionate portrait on the world’s most unlikely sex therapist
One of the many surprises in Mark St. Germain‘s biographical play about the U.S.’s most celebrated sex therapists Dr Ruth, is there not that much talk about sex at all. What his play does reveal however is the rather dark and shocking journey that this diminutive German Jewish woman took on the way to her…
