This is a short story that takes a harsh look at the sometimes disheartening and disillusioning realities of young love. After working coat check for a campus charity gala, the story idea struck me like a mallet. I wrote it feverishly over the course of three nights.
Every week 125 people in the UK take their own lives. 17.6 of those people are deaf or hearing impaired. and yet, the majority of mental health and suicide prevention focuses on telephone hotlines.
EXPANSION is Lexington, KY’s Psychedelic Experience and Music Festival. We pride ourselves on being just as visually-stunning as the music that’s on stage. Lexington has a great, tight-knit creative community of musicians and visual artists and the event gives them both a platform to showcase their work.
To appreciate those who are there for people who are battling any mental illnesses. One can easily lose his/ herself while trying to encourage someone else to find themselves. This is to encourage those who aren’t battling mental illness to keep taking care of themselves, so we don’t lose more people.
Our idea Helpi Truck, which helps collect unused and unwanted stuff from people to other people in need, was a part of the Young Lions competition submission.
We took America’s favorite news teleprompter and turned it into a board game. The goal is to read the news without laughing. Other players sabotage a mad-libs-style news story, selecting words & phrases like “gyrating” “undiagnosed drip” and “horny cousin” to get the newscaster to break. It’s just a hoot.
Escaping to NYC and moving up the ad industry ladder only heightened my trauma. I had to return to Mississippi to confront just how deep the toxicity can be for a poor, black, gay peripatetic.
Since I was a student in Ad School, we were encouraged to network with people in the industry that we admired and we’d like to work for.
One fine day I sat on my stoop, attempting to “live in the present” – as all the hustle-culture articles said I should be doing – while absorbing some much needed Vitamin D.
Introducing the Careless Bears NFT collection. This 100 1:1 uniquely hand drawn non-programmatically generated Careless Bears collection has been the most ambitious side hustle I’ve ever created. Cause frankly it has consumed my life, my nights and weekends when I’m not working my full-time job.
