“Leadership is not someone who we prop up so high that you feel like they’re inaccessible. Our leaders they come from among us, at least they should. This, to me, is not about only me becoming mayor. This is about proving to people, that you, everyday people, single mothers, nurses, teachers, the people who are solving our community’s problems anyway, this is the place for you.”
You can’t touch your face, but you can touch your face with a taco.
When QC contributor Tia Brown isn’t spending an abundance of time putting on concerts for her foster pooch, she’s pondering the hows and whys of all of…THIS. She’s devised some activities for us through this mulling process, and we couldn’t be more excited to get down to business.
“There are illusions of jumping, floating, and drowning. And then, empty space.”
A few weeks ago we asked you to encapsulate 2019 in 19 words, and what amazing, thoughtful, funny, poignant responses we received!! Thank you to everyone who made the last year of Qween City the best one yet, and here’s to more wonder in 2020.
Whether you gave 2018 the smackdown like Ocasio-Cortez to every one of her critics or you shutdown like our government, 2018 likely left you feeling some type of way. Utterance presents 18 word summaries of how it left some of our readers feeling.
“Rather than representing what I’m upset about, I’m representing how I want it to be.”
“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.”
The City of Good Neighbors is celebrating Pride for the 26th year this weekend. This year’s theme is “Connect,” but that doesn’t meant you have to connect with everyone.
“I just think of it like I’m going to touch the universe. And, that’s what it sounds like.”
Qween City sat down with burlesque performer/local artist/Hostel Buffalo-Niagara employee Cat McCarthy to talk about the hostel’s current fight to stay in their downtown location.
“We want to keep growing because our goal is to create as many worker-owner positions as possible.”
“Everything is by sound. I’ll just feel around until it feels good.”
“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.”
The Returners focuses on queens who spent a significant amount of time in Buffalo, left, and boomeranged back.