Ashley Basnight Is Encouraging Women to Tackle Their Own Home Improvement Projects
Ashley Basnight’s parents always knew that she was naturally creative. As a young girl, she was heavily influenced by her mother’s natural artistic abilities and her father’s do-it-yourself projects. Basnight and her father would spend their time fixing cars, working on minor renovations around their home, and learning about the latest technology. Her parent’s encouragement […]
Cosmica Artists is a Place for Musicians to Find Their Home
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Three Book Recommendations for World Book Day
It’s World Book Day and I am highlighting three books that I believe embody the meaning of the day. Caul Baby: A Novel by Morgan Jerkins Caul Baby focuses on a matriarchal Harlem family of Black women born with a unique generational gift. Each woman is born with a layer over their skin known as […]
Ashley Basnight Is Encouraging Women to Tackle Their Own Home Improvement Projects
Ashley Basnight’s parents always knew that she was naturally creative. As a young girl, she was heavily influenced by her mother’s natural artistic abilities and her father’s do-it-yourself projects. Basnight and her father would spend their time fixing cars, working on minor renovations around their home, and learning about the latest technology. Her parent’s encouragement […]
Cosmica Artists is a Place for Musicians to Find Their Home
If Gil Gastelum could compare his early years to one film, it would be the cult-classic, “High Fidelity.” The Arizona-born and raised music lover went from working at a record store near his university to owning his own record label and artist management company in Los Angeles. Gastelum is the CEO and founder of Cosmica […]
Latinx-Asians Are Not a Rarity, We’ve Existed for Hundreds of Years
In the past year, there has been a rise in anti-Asian hate and racism in the United States. People in positions of power have used fear-mongering tactics to push the false narrative that Asians are riddled with disease. As a Latinx/Asian-American of Peruvian and Korean descent, I have personally dealt with anti-Asian racism in the […]
Three Book Recommendations for World Book Day
It’s World Book Day and I am highlighting three books that I believe embody the meaning of the day. Caul Baby: A Novel by Morgan Jerkins Caul Baby focuses on a matriarchal Harlem family of Black women born with a unique generational gift. Each woman is born with a layer over their skin known as […]
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Ashley Basnight Is Encouraging Women to Tackle Their Own Home Improvement Projects
Ashley Basnight’s parents always knew that she was naturally creative. As a young girl, she was heavily influenced by her...
Cosmica Artists is a Place for Musicians to Find Their Home
If Gil Gastelum could compare his early years to one film, it would be the cult-classic, “High Fidelity.” The Arizona-born...
Latinx-Asians Are Not a Rarity, We’ve Existed for Hundreds of Years
In the past year, there has been a rise in anti-Asian hate and racism in the United States. People in...
Three Book Recommendations for World Book Day
It’s World Book Day and I am highlighting three books that I believe embody the meaning of the day. Caul...
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