interview

Interviews with lovers, fighters and the various professionals who deal with our dysfunction.

A Chance Encounter
I stood there as the cashier slid items across the scanner, watching the total rise with each swipe as I gripped my pocketbook close to side. I knew exactly how much money was in there, forty-seven dollars and fifty-six cents. Times had been hard before, but this was different. I had been out of full-time work for several months now and only able to pick up part-time shifts at a local diner. I had moved here because of my job and then the factory closed.
By Crystal Pietz5 years ago in Humans
Felicia’s Interview
Felicia was somewhat of a maths prodigy. Actually, somewhat does not do her justice. Throughout her childhood, she found solace in numbers (and later algebra), which became her trusted friends and a way to escape the challenges of growing up as a girl in rural Ghana. Whether it was the death of her father or witnessing her mother struggle to feed Felicia and her sisters, maths powered her on with an infectious smile. She counted herself lucky – she did not experience the extreme poverty that was so widespread across the country and the continent, but it was not the upbringing you and I would have had. After winning countless mathematical awards and trophies and completing a degree at Ghana’s most prestigious university, she was awarded with a full scholarship to complete a PhD at the University of Sheffield, UK. She completed her 3-year PhD programme in just over a year.
By Mike k5 years ago in Humans
The Proust Questionnaire Answered by
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Before answering this question, I need to admit that I became allergic to the word “perfect”, given I am a recovered perfectionist! This being clarified, I tend to make the difference between joy, happiness/fulfillment, and wholeness.
By Myriam Ben Salem5 years ago in Humans
Natalie Parra with Keiko Conservation
A thousand sharks don’t scare Natalie Parra, but a single plastic bag does. To Parra, saving the ocean doesn’t just mean putting a stop to plastic use, although that’s a huge part of it. There are many underlying problems that are causing the ocean’s downfall, including human’s ignorance with open ocean sharks and mammal captivity. When she began free-diving in Hawaii a few years ago, she couldn’t help but do something about the issues she saw.
By Manifestation Mindset Mentor5 years ago in Humans
Gio Made It, Taking The Media Industry By Storm
Gio Made It, Pittsburgh's very own. Devyn Giovengo (Gio Made It) is a 20 year old with a clothing line, record label, managing two music artists and much more. Gio's business "Gio Made It" is a media company that has everything you could ever need as a business or artist. Gio and his team do videography, graphic design, photography and visualizers.
By Melissa Arlington5 years ago in Humans
Cindy Mich
Cindy Mich, Founder of The Art is Alive Magazine is an active media personality and award-winning journalist. She contributes to a cluster of online and offline platforms, and her radio shows, Cin’s Chat Corner and Sons Spotlight, hold a total of 103,000 listeners spread across twenty states with a 15% international following.
By Tammy Reese5 years ago in Humans
A. S.imple D.ate review and interview with Rebecca Faith Quinn
They say that representation matters, so why are we still waiting for proper representation for autistic females? Plenty of autistic female writers and actresses exist, and yet filmmakers choose to omit them from stories about autism. Autistic women like myself didn't grow up seeing autistic females on TV, and the autistic girls of today shouldn't grow up the same way. My good friend Rebecca Faith Quinn is a fellow autistic who was also fed up with the lack of autistic female characters, so she decided to make her own. Her short film, A. S.imple D.ate, focuses on an autistic woman named Rachel who goes on a date with a guy she met online. It may be a short film on YouTube (channel name is YoungQuinn Productions), but it is undeniably a huge step in the right direction for autistic female representation.
By Cat the Autist5 years ago in Humans
Aline
Aline is an award-winning American singer/songwriter, rapper, and an award-winning nominee in the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA union known as Bethany Aline. She has recently worked for Halle Berry on her first directional feature "Bruised", and with Sally Field, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, and more on Netflix's "Dispatches From Elsewhere".
By Tammy Reese5 years ago in Humans
A cornered cat becomes as fierce as a … Garfield
August 16, 2020. Written by Edward Attwood “We’re in a neighbourhood now; I wanna get out and explore…” Many adult youths in Victoria are noticing massive changes to their everyday routines during the second wave of lockdown.
By Edward Attwood5 years ago in Humans
What is it Like To Be You
After letting him know my plan, I was able to sit with a co- worker and record our conversation about what it's like to be him, specifically, him being a white man. “ It’s not hard,” said Zach. “ Well, it’s definitely not as hard as others. I don’t have to be scared about being pulled over or anything.”
By Jess Brooks5 years ago in Humans
"You're Pretty For a Dark Skinned Girl"
I was going to start this blog post by defining the term ‘colourism’ from the dictionary, however I was quite surprised to find that this term does not exist in the English dictionary. Award-winning author Alice Walker is credited as one of the first people to use the term colourism, defining it in one of her essays in the 1983 book, In Search of our Mothers’ Garden, as “prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their color.” Racism, in comparison, is discriminatory behaviour or actions towards someone of a different race. Ultimately, both colourism and racism boil down to superiority and feeling that person A is more superior than person B purely based on their skin colour.
By Nuriya Shoro6 years ago in Humans
An Immigrant's Perspective
A man born in 1929 in Italy Why did you choose to leave Italy? After 10 years of the waiting for the war to end, my brother and I wanted to be here with our mother. I was eight when she left. It was before the war began.
By dizzy187 years ago in Humans