Week 1 of A Year with Queer Women’s Art, Film, and Music Ani DiFranco has always asked listeners to meet her in motion. Living in Clip doesn’t open with a statement so much as an atmosphere. The first track is instrumental, but her voice appears as sound rather than message—woven into rhythm, texture, breath. It’s a quiet signal that this album isn’t about polish or distance. It’s about presence. Like a lot of people, my entry point to Ani was through film—the movie Better Th

There are moments when engaging with culture feels like consumption—and moments when it feels like care. This project was born out of a desire to return to the latter. To slow down, pay attention, and spend time with queer women’s art in a way that honours both its creative power and its role in our collective well-being. Why We’re Doing This: Culture as Care At Visible Vibrant, we talk a lot about visibility—who gets to be seen, whose stories are centered, and what happens w