Tara Sasiadek: Extraordinary Elixirs

“I’ve always thought of it as making potions.”

Rachel Herman-Gross: Hospitable Host

“We want people to be comfortable asking questions and inquiring about things in a way that just sort of demystifies cocktails.”

Maxine Doyle: Crack Cuisinier

“It was so easy and simple, but my mom could not stop raving about it. She would always say that everything tastes better when someone else prepares it for you.”

Julia Bottoms-Douglas: Artist Arising

“Rather than representing what I’m upset about, I’m representing how I want it to be.”

Prish Moran: Reanimator

“If I listened to everyone around me I would never have this — I would have never had this building!”

Alaysa Dale: A Tryst with the Abyss

“No matter what, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, you’re going to end up nine layers deep at some point.”

Amanda Amico: Rollin’ Wrapper

“I am learning so much about starting a business from the ground up, literally.”

Lindsay Robson: Social Seamstress

“I just love being out in the wild, I guess you would say.”

Jodi Drew: Motor Mama

Meet Spoke & Dagger’s Jodi Drew and join her for International Female Ride Day tomorrow, May 6.

Kelsey Claire Hagen: Pudenda Power

“All of our actions collectively make up the zeitgeist of our generation.”

Gaitrie Subryan: Shimmying with Shakti

“My training and teachers mentored me to bring this to the community.”

Allison Mitchell: Velvet Bethany and the Cosmic Abyss

“I just think of it like I’m going to touch the universe. And, that’s what it sounds like.”

Studio Sessions: /krēˈādiv/, with Obsidian Bellis

“She inspired me to subscribe to the life of a visual artist because I could practice creating what I wanted to portray with bits and pieces.”

Erin Moser: Countess of Chroma

“I put a tarp on the floor in my room and I cut hair in my room and charged friends like $5 for a color and then we would go to Denny’s and eat fries.”

Salon Sirens: The Women of Shianne Waxing Studio

“Taking your pants off and having someone all up in your genitals is a really personal experience.”

Breaking Bread with Allison Ewing

“We want to keep growing because our goal is to create as many worker-owner positions as possible.”

Donika Kelly: Language for the Living

“How it moves might be surprising, but that surprise is in a moment, and then you can dip out.”

Dayatra Hassan: Serving Up Empowerment

“When I asked women to come talk to the girls, the beauty is that so many women say, ‘Of course!’”

Jazmine Frazier: “I am Hop Hop”

“Everything is by sound. I’ll just feel around until it feels good.”

Cam-passion: Cameron Balon of Crisis Services

With federal support in jeopardy, agencies like Crisis Services will rely more on state funding and local support.

Emily Terrana: Agent of Change

“We’re just not going to have refugees coming from these countries, and these folks are the fabric of our communities.”

Leslie Zemsky: On the Art of Community

“It’s our family’s philosophy to keep building the neighborhood, but you do need to make these projects work.”

Psyko Kupkake: Skatin’ into the Dream

“We would be stupid if we didn’t take the spot, and we’re not ready, and we can’t afford it, and we’ll figure it out, and here we are.”

Olivia Frank: Weaver of Creative Movement

“I found that as my role early on because I felt blessed to have all this knowledge and practice from doing it every week.”

Christa Glennie Seychew: On the Fabric of Food

“One of the few places where people still have communal, shared experiences is around a table.”

Female Fierceness and Prowess of Verve Dance Studio

“The goal is not to have a specific form and to look like anyone else. The goal is to look like you.”

Lizy Reaves: Storied Soubrette

“This is right. This is something I should have explored earlier on.”

Mary Hetrick: Fanciful Furnishings

“I stand back, give it a look, and remember that I just did that with my own two hands from start to finish.”

Ebony “MaDamn Noire” Jones: Femme Provocateur

“We’re giving them honey but, somewhere along the lines we have to stand by something as well.”

Beth Geyer and Vienna Haak: A Collaboration of All Ability

“Thank you for doing this. You’re giving my daughter, my son, their dream.”

Carly Glenn Collier: Solving a Colorful Puzzle

“I’m wearing my insides on the outside and no one can tell me not to.”

Lisarie Martin: Woman of Many Faces

“You know how it’s nice to wake up and be excited about something? I have to do that or I won’t want to wake up.”

Elizabeth Siematkowski: A Love Affair with Words

“It feels safe to explore some things that maybe make people uncomfortable in their daily lives, that maybe make ME uncomfortable in my daily life.”

Marisa Caruso: Baby, the Stars Shine Bright

“I want to take part in projects that matter and facilitate change, because the path our culture is currently following is too scary to let ride out.”

Brook F. D’Angelo: Totes Badass

“Turns out, even after all the naysayers, the plan turned out to be an internationally recognized success.”

Afura Fareed: Witches in Our Midst

“The struggle is real, but when you have a destiny to fulfill, the miracles come when you need them most!”

Bambi Layne: For the Love of Science and Design

“Whatever they need to get it done, because that’s my driving force: the gratitude, not the money.”

Sarah “Bear” Cozzemera: Rockin’ Crocker

“Nothing has ever tugged at my soul, inspired, and motivated me to succeed as much as this does.”

Lori Fronckowiak: A Quad-Rad-ic Equation

“I used to make military airplanes for my job, so to me the skate itself is simple. But that’s a matter of perspective.”

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