Women
Sarah McLeod
Sarah McLeod is a musical artist from Australia. She’s known for her solo work and as the singer and guitarist for the rock band The Superjesus. The Superjesus was nominated for eight and won three ARIA Music Awards between 1997 and 2001. McLeod launched her solo career in 2005, releasing her first single, “Let’s Get Together” and…
The Sixsters
The Sixsters are six talented award-winning kids from Ukraine who love to play rock. The all girl band was founded in the spring of 2018. “The Sixsters” means “Six sisters” inspired by the fact that the six girls have become like sisters due to their love to music. Unlike other teenagers’ bands which are usually…
Jaime Lyn Beatty
Jaime Lyn Beatty is a multi-talented versatile performer, writer, and producer. She’s a founding member of the viral sensation Team Starkid. She’s performed off-Broadway, headlined two sold-out national tours, starred as “The Mermaid” in a Super Bowl commercial and written and hosted original shows for Google and Netflix. She was named Broadway World‘s “Best Featured Actress in A Musical” in 2019.…
Khadija Mbowe
Gambian-Canadian-American performer Khadija Mbowe is a video essayist and self-described socio-cultural anthropologist and “cool, fun, *young* millennial aunty.” In her videos she sits on her floor and sometimes talks to her friends, sometimes does video essays. Khadija has half a Sociology degree, half an English degree, and a whole degree in Vocal Performance, focusing on Opera. She’s also…
Abrian Curington
Abrian Curington is a visual storyteller, cartographer and part-time sailor. For the last nine years, she’s been making and publishing comics through her company Blue Cat Co., resulting in multiple digital releases and three successful Kickstarter pre-orders for a full-length graphic novel (Woolmancy) and two graphic novellas. She incorporates her childhood love of science into…
silvi alcivar (the poetry store)
Since 2008, Silvi, The Poetry Store poet, has written and sold thousands of poems throughout the San Francisco Bay area and beyond (including Antarctica). In addition to creating on-the-spot poems, Silvi’s artwork has shown at numerous galleries and has been featured in 7×7 magazine, Daily Candy, the San Francisco Chronicle, Style Me Pretty, Weddings Unveiled…
Calliope
Calliope is an ASMR artist who’s been creating ASMR videos on YouTube since December 2016. Her specialties are personal attention, medical, and pseudoscience RPs. But she’s delved into everything since she started making videos. Even though “whispers” is in her YouTube channel name, she doesn’t do a lot of whispering in her videos because she’s…
Meg Hunt
Meg Hunt is an illustrator, mentor and maker of things. You may recognize her work from picture books like “Interstellar Cinderella,” “Reading Beauty,” “Werewolf There Wolf,” “Send a Girl The True Story of How Women Joined the FDNY” and more. A Society of Illustrators gold medal recipient, she has done work for New York Times,…
Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest punk rock and performance art group formed by Nadya Tolokonnikova & Masha Alekhina. Since 2011, Pussy Riot has been getting in good trouble, including spending serious time in jail in Russia. Their credo: Anybody can be in Pussy Riot — there’s no limit. Both Nadya and Masha were…
Alie Ward
Alie Ward is the creator of Ologies. Ologies the podcast gives a voice to the folks in lab coats or sweating through field work or hunkered down over data and asks “WHAT IS YOUR DEAL.” Each week she interviews one or more “ologists” who study things like sheep skulls, raccoons, TikTok, knees, pain, dancing spiders,…