Citizen Brooklyn

The only down side was that I was never ready to leave when I had to move on… I just wanted to just stay and continue the experience.

The day that I saw Storyboard P dancing on a lovely summer evening in front of Barclay Center, my camera had no rest.

Photographer Stephanie Diani got to the heart of the matter, literally, by constructing these fascinating accessories out of offal and artistically draping them around beautiful models to make a statement, “Meat as fashion must be in the collective unconscious.”

Living in remote villages, Sworn Virgins are believed to be the only formal, socially defined female-to-male cross-gender and cross-dressing role in Europe. Roughly 30 of these fascinating women are left. Photographer Jill Peters beautifully captures the fortitude and stoicism of a group of women who chose to take a radical stand against the gender role they were born into.

She’s more of an alchemist than a designer. She stashes emotions inside her mind, and blends them out into delicious creative juices.

Burlesque can just be stripping, but when it’s done expertly, it can be about so much more.

It is most striking is that every single woman photographed looks so comfortable in her own skin radiating confidence.

Be drunk with shame, more love drawn memories too soon to forget…

Here’s a CBK exclusive world premiere of the video for “Life Stylo 3” by iREBELYELL, production by John Sell.

‘Nudity is a form of dress.” John Berger

Lin Kim would often buy Smirnoff Apple and Goldshlager for us with her oldest sister’s ID, explaining, “Nobody can tell Asian people apart.” It became like her mantra.

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