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Hello PaneloMonday Memo #13: 1,000 Hours of OutrageMonday, August 31, 2020Calling all outraged creatives! Help @thecreateresist visually document 1,000 Outrages that have happened during the Trump Administration. We are looking for artists/designers/illustrators/animators to create with us - we provide the fact checked outrage, you provide the amazing art. 🌈 BIPOC/LGBTQ+ creators are a must, but all are welcome. 💰 There is an $50 honorarium for every graphic posted. Multiple submissions accepted up to 10 pieces. 🗣 Let's raise our voices and end this insanity in November. 🗳 Campaign Signup: 1,000 Hours of Outrages👩🏽🎤 Please share with any activist artists or creat...
2020-08-3109 min
Hello PaneloMonday Memo #11: Light in AugustHello, friends!Thoreau called August the waning of life, but what did he know? He spent all year staring at Walden Pond, blissfully unaware that August is when NYC shines, in all that late summer diffuse golden light and whatnot.There are 20 Mondays left in 2020.It’s a new, fresh week — let’s do this.Where You’ll Find Me💇🏻♀️ Getting my first quarantine haircut (in 8 months!)☎️ Checking-in, 5-minutes at a time, an idea from Alisha Ramos of Girls' Night In:"I've been texting my friends on my...
2020-08-1713 min
Hello PaneloMonday Memo #9: Ablaze, Seasons ShiftingAugust 3, 2020August always feels like a shift in the air.In the last 48 hours, I became an Auntie* for the first time (👶🏻 Facetimed with a 7-hour-old!), witnessed my first Zoom wedding (👰🏻👰🏻 mazel tov!), and toured the tropical yurts of the isle of Brooklyn 🌴So, dear reader, what’s shifting for you this season? *I’m not like the other Aunts, I’m a cool AuntWhere You’ll Find Me🍾 Thrilled to announce I am a brand spankin’ new Wethos Founding Member!🧐 What’s a Wethos, you ask?? 💥 A game-chang...
2020-08-0303 min
Hello PaneloMotivation Monday #6: Portals to Other Worlds, Where the Streets Have New NamesLady Kia in front of magical portal 851, Pacific Street, Brooklyn.Where You’ll Find Me This Week👻 Still going on creepy adventures to otherworldly portals with the Randonautica app (details in this week’s mini-podcast). 🎮 Judging Session 2 of Indoor Recess, in founder Jiamen (Maggie) Peng’s words:“a virtual advertising competition where students tackle a brief over 2 weeks with help from industry mentors, speakers and judges. Inspired by the wave of internship cancellations and recent grads facing an incredibly tough job market, we wanted to create something for students to showcase during this ‘g...
2020-07-1310 min
Hello PaneloMotivation Monday #5: Invisibility, Randonautica, Art of Deckmaking“Art can initiate conversations when other media fails.” – Shepard FaireyLady Kia in front of her favorite eco-activist street art: Earth Crisis by Shepard Fairey, on the side of the Little Cupcake Bakeshop, St. Mark’s Street, Brooklyn.Writing✍️Finished my writing challenge, #30DaysofGaysianCulture, with a tribute to a photojournalist and a party promoter who changed my ways of seeing and being and making space for others. Reading🇵🇭 The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race by Anthony Christian Ocampo. As @AliWong says, there are Fancy Asians (East...
2020-07-0608 min
Hello PaneloMotivation Monday #4: No Pride in a Police State, Welcoming Conflict, What are You Fighting For?No Pride in a Police State🌈 This Pride Weekend was the quietest, soberest one in personal history. The annual summer ritual of partying down Fifth Avenue to the Village replaced by a Queer Liberation protest pepper-sprayed by the NYPD as they marched under the banner: “No Pride in a Police State.”As June comes to a close, I’m feeling the intensity of the past few months, not just from the global pandemic we’re all experiencing, but also my own personal Venn Diagram, amplified over the past few months into an intense, personal exploration of multiple...
2020-06-2905 min
Hello PaneloMotivation Monday #2: The Revolution Includes Joy“The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.”— Audre LordeMixtape: Stonewall was a Riot“Marsha P. Johnson [the drag queen who anecdotally threw the first brick at Stonewall] could be perceived as the most marginalized of people — black, queer, gender-nonconforming, poor. You might expect a person in such a position to be fragile, brutalized, beaten down. Instead, Marsha had this joie de vivre, a c...
2020-06-1505 min
Hello PaneloMotivation Monday #1: The Revolution Will Be StreamedHello friends,I’m so glad you’re here!Every week I’m sharing my hand-picked links, learnings, and longreads to jumpstart your week.Part newsletter, part mini-podcast, this email goody bag also includes: mixtapes, eclectic events, creativity/productivity/career hacks and apps, dope stuff for your desk, and a deck of the week.Looking forward to catching up here weekly… don’t be shy, drop a comment!✌🏽 Peace from Brooklyn, Sharon PaneloMixtape: Black Lives Matter “The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will be live.”...
2020-06-0805 min