We are the embodiment of a new history— a history renewed by reclamation and documentation. We are history. By being, we manifest the impossible.
Kiara Marshall
Zachary Tye Richardson
Ericka Hart
Juliu’s Bar
The blueprint left before us by those we honor charts a path of internal struggle. But through the energy of our ancestors and the promise of liberation, we shape-shift into truth, declare through glamour, and cultivate collective power. We create history today as we make mistakes, unlearn and relearn, grow outward, reach inward, love wholly, and stand in our power.
Joshua Allen.
Every roar and every kindness sends ripples through narratives of conformity.
The Joyce Theatre
Jeffhova
Vinny Maruri
West Dakota
Power springs forth from the femme, the fluid, the fortuitous, the fighting, the free, the forgotten.
Artemis
Alok Menon
We bear the torch for those who will come after us, from those who came before us. We fuel ourselves to feed others. We are seeds planted in rich soil, growing in the cupped palms of ancestors, spirits, survivors, lovers, and friends.
Casa Magazines
West 21st Street
Emani Castillo
Lorelei Black
When we draw equally from the same strong vibration, we feel power.
Chella Mann and Mary V.
Our beauty is adorned in jewels. It is embraced in the ocean, covered, safe, and whole. It is naked, languid, alone, and safe. Sometimes, it is difficult. Sometimes, it is an absence of beauty. But always, it is kind. Our beauty brings us into a space of nourishment where we can share life with one another.
Jeffrey Prada
Jari Jones and Corey Daniella Kempster
Harry Charlesworth
Our history will be told in stories of thriving. Collective healing, self determination, reparations, and redistribution will wash over the fears that block truth. We will mend each wound burst open by dichotomies.
Leo Sherman
Golden Penny
Lilly Olsen
But creating our history requires cultivating the imagination to see power as something new.
Fatima Jamal
Mohamed
Simone