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UBIKWIST magazine celebrates DIVERSITY UBIKWIST celebrates Diversity.

This biannual, international,independent New York based publication evokes global perspective and features emerging as well as established talent across all genres of popular culture: Fashion, Beauty, Music, Art, Film, Design, Illustration and Reportage
UBIKWIST seeks to be an authentic source of influence and opinions, fortified by alternative writing with a consistently progressive vision. It i

ntends to foster creativity through inspiration rather than dictation, with a keen eye on cultural sustainability. This visually luxurious, eclectic, multi-cultural publication will satiate the appetite of anyone seeking enrichment. By combining new innovative talent with unique ideas, UBIKWIST will push boundaries and exceed expectations of what a magazine can offer with thorough and consistent audacity.

08/11/2025

From “Within each one of us there is some piece of humanness that knows we are not being served by the machine which orchestrates crisis after crisis and is grinding all our futures into dust.”
-Audre Lorde

08/07/2025

😍❤️🔥 From Floran Polano

Master Collection — ‘Embraced me, Strangled Silk’

Photographer Sieme Hermans
Make-up and Hair Zoë Derks .derks
Photography Assistant Wout Vloeberghs
Models Malaika via Noah Management - Emily - Babette
Graphics Noa Ven

Thank you for opening your doors to us

08/04/2025

From On Aug. 4, 1964, the bodies of three lynched civil rights workers (James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman) were found, after disappearing more than a month before.

On June 21, 1964, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman were tortured and murdered by the K*K with help from the deputy sheriff near Philadelphia in Neshoba County, Mississippi. They were killed defending the right to learn and human rights for all.

The three young men had traveled to Neshoba County to investigate the burning of Mt. Zion Methodist Church, which had been a site of a CORE Freedom School. While searching for the three civil rights workers, bodies of other African Americans were found including Henry Dee and Charles Moore.

Learn More:
- Read “Lynching of Chaney, Schwerner & Goodman” at the Civil Rights Movement veterans (crmvet.org) website, a detailed description of their arrest, the complicity between the “law enforcement” and the Klan, their murder, and the fight to have their bodies found, autopsied, and the murderers charged.
- See the Southern Poverty Law Center list of Civil Rights Martyrs for more names of people murdered in the fight for voting rights and human rights in the United States.
- Listen to the Democracy Now! broadcast, “After Over Four Decades, Justice Still Eludes Family of 3 Civil Rights Workers Slain in Mississippi Burning Killings.”

📸: Photos of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, three civil rights workers who were tortured and murdered by the K*K.

08/02/2025

repost from Born in Harlem, New York, James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a writer and civil rights activist who is best known for his critiques on national identity and his semi-autobiographical novels and plays that center on race, politics, and s*xuality. He was reared by his mother and stepfather David Baldwin, a Baptist preacher, originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. Baldwin attended Frederick Douglass Junior High School, where he met his French teacher and mentor Countee Cullen, who achieved prominence as a poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

Baldwin’s works helped to raise public awareness of racial and s*xual oppression. His honest portrayal of his personal experiences in a national context challenged the United States to uphold the values of equality and justice. He explored these topics in such works as “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” “Notes of a Native Son,” “The Fire Next Time,” “Giovanni’s Room,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and “Another Country.” Baldwin firmly believed s*xuality was fluid, and that it should not be divided into rigid categories and labeled.

Through his popularity and writings produced at home and abroad, Baldwin contributed as an agent of change to the artistic and intellectual traditions in American society.

Follow the link in our bio to learn more on our Searchable Museum.

📸 1. James Baldwin, 1965. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, © Sedat Pakay 1965. 2. James Baldwin, 1966. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Sedat Pakay © 1966.

07/28/2025

Anne Braden, born , was an unlikely yet powerful force in the Civil Rights Movement.

Raised in the Deep South by a white, middle-class family, she became a fierce advocate for racial justice. She helped desegregate hospitals in Kentucky, protested unjust executions in Mississippi, and organized white Southerners in support of civil rights.

In 1954, Anne and her husband bought a home and transferred it to a Black family who had been repeatedly denied a home due to discrimination. When the house was later bombed, no one was indicted. But the Bradens were charged with sedition.

Anne never stopped pushing for justice.

07/28/2025

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06/28/2025

From On June 28, 1969, New York City police arrived at the Stonewall Inn, a bar in Greenwich Village that catered to the gay community, to conduct a routine raid and arrest any individuals found to be cross-dressing.

The raid did not proceed routinely, and resulted in resistance and demonstrations by the bar’s patrons and other individuals who gathered around the scene. The Stonewall Riots are considered to be a spark that ignited the gay rights movement.

However, in Teaching Stonewall’s 50th Anniversary, Teaching Tolerance editors note that it is important for students to learn that the gay rights movement did not begin with Stonewall:

“Before, during and after Stonewall, activists in New York City were fighting against a system that criminalized their love lives and outward expression. Jason Baumann, who curated the New York Public Library’s exhibit honoring the Stonewall Uprising’s 50th anniversary, points out that as early as the 1950s, groups like the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis were opposing job discrimination. Q***r people at San Francisco’s Compton’s Cafeteria, Philadelphia’s Dewey’s Restaurant and Los Angeles’ Black Cat tavern all protested to demand access to public accommodations and freedom from police harassment.“

The Stonewall Riots were part of a long continuum of LGBTQ oppression and resistance. Read a short description from a teacher workshop at the Stonewall at 50 at the New York Historical Society exhibit: https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/stonewall-50-new-york-historical-society

To learn more, we recommend listening to “Before Stonewall” on the NPR podcast Throughline.

📸: Sylvia Rivera, a Puerto Rican and Venezuelan trans civil rights activist involved in Black and Latino liberation as well as LGBT rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. She participated in the Stonewall Riots in 1969, and co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) with Marsha P. Johnson in 1970.

06/14/2025

From Facial recognition software is most certainly being used today. And, there will be fascists combing social media to find targets. Keep yourself and others safe!

06/05/2025

From That quote from Nina Simone beautifully encapsulates the responsibility artists have to engage with and comment on the world around them. By reflecting the times, artists not only express their own truths but also give voice to the experiences and struggles of others.

Simone herself embodied this duty through her powerful music and activism, addressing pressing societal issues and inspiring generations.

Her work reminds us that art can be a catalyst for change, encouraging discussions about justice, equality, and human rights. It’s a call for artists to remain attuned to the currents of their era and to use their platforms to shine a light on important issues.

05/26/2025

From According to the we already have enough clothes on the planet to dress the next 6 generations. So why do we keep buying more?

We are consuming more than ever. Yet our relationship to our clothing has never been so detached. We consume and discard clothing at a relentless pace and it’s costing people, the planet and our future.

Both overproduction and overconsumption are fuelling a global crisis. Communities, like Ghana’s Kantamanto Market and Chile’s Atacama Desert have become a dumping ground for the Global North’s discarded clothing - bearing the brunt of a waste system they didn’t create.

So, despite knowing all this, why are we driven to consume more?

We’ve been sold the idea that constant consumption is essential - to express ourselves and to stay relevant. But this endless chase for ‘newness’ is pushed by a trillion-dollar industry that profits from our insecurity.

Yes, the responsibility lies with Big Fashion to first produce less and with governments to enforce regulation. But as consumers we have power too.

We can buy less and buy better.
We can reframe our relationship with clothing and see the value in what we already own.
We can advocate for more just and equitable systems that don’t lead to fashion waste littering beaches and deserts.

It’s time to rethink not just how we consume, but why.

Images: re:FRAME shot by with creative direction by

04/22/2025

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Dear Prince,

I saw a comment on the internet that said, “Prince ain’t got no business being dead.” And I said: yes, this feels true. Then I listen to your voice, and your songs, and the music you made with your own holy human body and infinite spirit and I think-feel: OH—Prince is only a little dead. Mostly, he is still hear/here. I hear you alive inside of my own bones. The cells of my body are at a live concert and dancing to your music whenever it is playing, you are right here and we are together and it is so magical it is medicine.

For how music is alive forever. For how it alters the air. For how it touches the trees that are listening outside of my window— for how the trees and giggling and dancing. For how the trees are shuffling their intertwined roots and raising their branches up into the wind to dance with the same breeze that has been moving since all breezes began. I know the breeze i feel right now was once in your hair.

….
THE PRINCE ALTARS.

I made these and it was like spending time with you. I want to make a PRINCE CHAPEL. It will be a place to be so free and whole and loving that it makes sick people well and well people vehicles of everyday emancipation.

We love you and we thank you for showing us a way to be in living-love our own selves in deep and wild wholeness.
…..

We miss you. I still cry about it.
There has to be a time to still cry about it, right? The joy is so so so divine.

Thank you for singing to us in the always of it all.

…..
prayers for human wholeness in communities of emancipation and
Grace. May Justice reign upon the earth.

04/11/2025

repost from On this day, April 11, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 into law, also known as the Fair Housing Act. This landmark legislation was enacted in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., addressing the pervasive issue of racial discrimination in housing. The Act prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, s*x, or national origin in the sale, rental, and financing of housing. It also strengthened federal enforcement of these anti-discrimination laws, ensuring greater access to housing opportunities for marginalized communities.

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 had a profound impact on Black history by challenging the entrenched systems of racial inequality, particularly in housing. Before its passage, Black Americans faced widespread discrimination in securing housing, often being denied access to homes in predominantly white neighborhoods. By prohibiting such discriminatory practices, the Act opened the door for Black families to access better housing, fostering economic growth and mobility. It also served as a powerful symbol of progress in the Civil Rights Movement, reinforcing the ongoing fight for justice and equality. This critical legislation remains a cornerstone in the effort to dismantle institutional racism and promote a more inclusive society.

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UBIKWIST celebrates Diversity. This biannual, international,independent New York based publication evokes global perspective and features emerging as well as established talent across all genres of popular culture: Fashion, Beauty, Music, Art, Film, Design, Illustration and Reportage UBIKWIST seeks to be an authentic source of influence and opinions, fortified by alternative writing with a consistently progressive vision. It intends to foster creativity through inspiration rather than dictation, with a keen eye on cultural sustainability. This visually luxurious, eclectic, multi-cultural publication will satiate the appetite of anyone seeking enrichment. By combining new innovative talent with unique ideas, UBIKWIST will push boundaries and exceed expectations of what a magazine can offer with thorough and consistent audacity.