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By The Editors  Disnie Sebastien is an artist from the beautiful island of Dominica in the Eastern Caribbean, now based in New York City. A Jane of all trades, she dabbles in many aspects of art, from acting and directing to video editing and house managing. Disnie has a B.F.A in Multimedia Performing Arts from Lehman College-CUNY in the Bronx. She has been fortunate to work with influential people in the entertainment industry, such as Trezana Beverly, Tony Award-winner, and George Lefferts, an executive producer for NBC & ABC. Recent credits include Google, Condé Nast, and Urban Stages’ Tourist Traps Theater festival. She hopes to continue to excel in her craft and touch lives through her artistry.
We asked Disnie, who stars in our poetry film "Butterflies" (and has appeared in a few other Quail Bell video projects!), some questions about what it's like to be a NYC artist for stage and screen, before and during the pandemic. Here's what she had to say:
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By Alex Carrigan  There are many roles women are expected to fulfill in their lives, whether it's being a good wife, a loving mother, a hard worker, etc. But what's really upsetting is how much of it comes from relinquishing control over their role to others. Whether it's having to listen to older women for advice on marital roles, or putting faith in doctors in regards to bodily autonomy, it's shocking how much women must fit into a box, but also how much responsibility they are left to bear if they fail to live up to expectations.
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 Editor's Note: This piece was first published on Gayisfamily.com. Watch the companion video, an ode to womxn with body hair, here. Clam shells tweezers. Pumice stone razors. Flint stone hair shears. These were the varied, ingenious depilatory instruments that could be found adorning the grooming tables of the everyday ladies and gentlemen of yore. Even the likes of Egyptian Pharaohs and Roman emperors.
The Egyptians, though proud of their beards and bodily manes, shaved as a necessity, to fight the hot African sun. Alexander the Great, though initially aghast at their abject lack of body hair, soon realized how much more difficult it is for an enemy soldier to grab on to one's hairless, frictionless arms. So, he, too, shaved. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
 In a time when everything is about social distancing, wearing masks, and simply staying home, traditional theatre is impossible. There is no way to produce and create the live theatre that we all know and love with current restrictions and recommendations in place. Luckily, theatre makers are notoriously inventive people and where there’s a will there’s a way. At the beginning of March (before the major onset of closure and postponements) I was notified that I would be directing at a new works short play festival produced by the Avonlea Theater Company and Cobb & Co located in Spanish Fork, UT. This festival eventually came to be titled Six Feet Apart, a virtual and COVID safe festival. I was to direct two plays, but as the festival got closer and alterations hadn’t been made to ensure the safety of cast and crew I considered pulling out of the festival. I am so glad I didn’t.
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By Ghia Vitale  Photo Credit: Sofiya Alexandra and Nick Ross Sofiya Alexandra is a feminist comedian who creates and posts #saddadcards along with illustrator Nick Ross. These cards offer a new take on dad humor as we know it today.
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By The Editors  Here's a free sign to print, laminate, and stick on the floors of your public or semi-public space. Want to tip Quail Bell for this graphic? Send us some cash via Venmo @quailbellmag. We'd appreciate it and hope you can make good use of this sign! Download Here:
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By The Editors  Asano Agarie Gomez installation her work. See more work from this artist in Quail Bell. With New York City slowly re-opening, we're pleased to see the Queens Botanical Garden welcoming masked up visitors for the first time since the COVID-19 shutdown. QBG will be re-opening Tuesday, July 21st, with limited operating hours and social distancing guidelines in place. But this isn't the garden's only good news! This season also brings six new art installations curated by AnkhLave Arts Alliance, a non-profit arts platform for marginalized creators. (One just so happens to be our founder Christine Sloan Stoddard.)
We asked AnkhLave founder/executive Dario Mohr–previously featured as an artist here on Quail Bell—to tell us a bit about his organization, its Annual Garden Project, and what it has in store for Queens Botanical Garden guests this summer. Here's what he had to say: The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
By Susann Cokal Editor's Note: This piece previously appeared in Gemini Magazine.  Author's Introductory Note: The reason to write and read historical fiction is, I think, primarily to experience a story that couldn’t have been told at the time, one for which the historical record may be spotty. Such a story requires both research and leaps of imagination and emotion.
My portrayal of J. Marion Sims comes directly from his autobiography, The Story of My Life, which can be read in its entirety online. In what follows, I’ve italicized passages taken directly from Sims’s book or from newspaper accounts. The lone exception is the paragraph that defines fistulae, which I’ve cobbled together from his descriptions. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
By Rebel Tipton
Not to point out the obvious, but the world has gone to shit. If your mental health during the coronavirus outbreak feels like the equivalent of thirty landfills, you're not alone. The CDC reports that bizarre sleep patterns, heightened anxiety and depression, chronic illness flare-ups, and changes in eating habits are all totally normal reactions to living in the middle of a pandemic. Just in case you still don't believe me, here's why feeling like shit right now is totally okay.
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