Week 2 of A Year with Queer Women’s Art, Film, and Music Fiona Apple makes albums that don’t ask for your attention so much as they require it. The Idler Wheel… is a record that pulls inward. It doesn’t perform emotion—it examines it. Where Ani DiFranco invites you into a room full of people, Fiona Apple asks you to sit alone with your thoughts and stay there a while. Released in 2012, The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You Mor

Week 1 of A Year with Queer Women’s Art, Film, and Music Zanele Muholi describes their work as visual activism, but that framing almost undersells what’s happening. Muholi’s photographs don’t argue for visibility so much as they practice it. They document Black queer and trans lives with care, intention, and insistence—creating an archive where one did not reliably exist before. There is a steadiness to Muholi’s work that feels grounding. The portraits are direct. Subjects me

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

With the crisp air and golden leaves swirling around us, it’s a time to draw inward, to ground ourselves and focus on replenishing