features, Lifestyle

House of Silky’s Basjia Shares the Importance of Chosen Family

It’s gay Christmas, Sydneysisters (also known by many as Mardi Gras), and we’re gearing up for the festivities. This year, Absolut is celebrating queer Chosen Families and has enlisted editorial photographer, Liz Ham, to document a string of portraits by notable queer chosen families. Taking part in the series are QTBIPOC collective, House of Silky, […]

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Fashion & Art

Return to Me: An Ode to Gender Non-Conforming Musicians

“Return to Me” is a call back to the 1920s jazz styling, and a time when segregated gender, race, and sexuality were prominent.  Upon beginning this project, photographer Laura Du Vé discussed with Kaiit, a musician and artist from Naarm Melbourne in so-called Australia what she might be interested in creating. Kaiit uses she/he/they pronouns. “The […]

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Fashion & Art, features

Futuremood: Effortlessly Cool Mood-Altering Sunglasses

The self-care industry offers endless ways to tend to your mind and body. In a market saturated with aesthetic but ineffective remedies, people are scrambling to find coping mechanisms for their stress. Austin Soldner, the co-founder of California-based new-wave sunglasses brand Futuremood, realized this need and sought to make a difference. After several months of […]

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Fashion & Art, features

End Non-Binary Fashion, We Need to Degender All Clothing

Non-binary fashion icon and creator Radam Ridwan challenges the notion of static non-binary clothing, letting us know that there is not one singular way how an individual can look non-binary, nor is there a uniform universal non-binary style, sharing how we should focus our efforts on degendering all fashion. I am now an extremely chic […]

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Fashion & Art, features

Non-Binary Upcycled Fashion in ‘Earthly Identities’

In her collection, Melisa Minca takes upcycled clothing to transform bodies and make bold statements about our desires through non-binary fashion. These characteristics find their origin in the Garden of Eden where the binary roles for sex, gender and power became defined. Here, in this series, the Garden of Eden has been rediscovered and in […]

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events, Fashion & Art

Gypsy Sport 2020: Fearless Tropical Street Tribe

Gypsy Sport 2020: At 5pm on Monday, September 9th Rio Uribe’s distinctly tropical tribe of spring 2020 began slowly spilling out onto Canal Street. The group possessed an earthly yet alien-esque presence which became infectious to any passer-by who came in contact with the group. Dripping in animal prints, glittered body paint, bold tropical motifs […]

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