Embrace Healing at Love Now Live!
Every artist gracing the Fringe stage is featured in Love Now Magazine’s Winter 2024 issue, with the theme: HEALING. Every story in the issue is an account of transformation and wellness from some of the city’s most inspiring figures: Taj Murdock, Victoria Best, and Vashti Dubois, to name a few. You’ll receive a complimentary copy with your ticket so that you can take the inspiration home with you.
In Memoriam: Judith Jamison
In honor of the legendary Judith Jamison, we dedicate this article of remembrance to her legacy.
Kristal Bush on Freedom and #FreeMyWeedman
Bush sees herself as a disrupter and change agent. “I create movement in community for people who are voiceless,” she says, “but it all comes from the grassroots.” For Bush, the ability to shift to fill the needs of those in her community is freedom. She believes that education and the respect it brings is freedom.
The Syphax Freedom Fairytale
Together, they remind us that the best things in life come in their own time—love and success come with hard work. Tracey and Cheri Syphax do not take for granted that they get to enjoy the freedom they’ve earned along the way. Instead, like everything else, they share it.
An Uphill Climb to Prosperity: The Journey of a Returning Mother
A wise poet once wrote, “life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” This could not be truer for a person who is justice-impacted. As a mother returning from incarceration, life is full of bumps, cracks, and splinters on stairs that bruise as they knock me down one step for every two steps that I climb. My journey from incarceration to stability has been a roller coaster ride since I returned to society nearly two decades ago.
Freeing the Cvgebird
Cvgebird takes social and systemic issues, and makes them sonically compelling, as well as being informed and interesting. Everything is intentional, whether it be for Selina, the listener, or both.
Love Now Media Partners with Women’s Way to Launch the Beyond the Razor Wire Fence Podcast
In partnership with Women’s Way, Love Now Media is proud to announce the launch of Beyond the Razor Wire Fence, now available across all podcast platforms.
Cosmic Bonds and “the Comet of the Century”
On Saturday, October 12th, a rare comet will be at its most visible over Philadelphia – streaking through the sky and easily visible with a telescope or binoculars. Named “Tsuchinshan-Atlas”, the comet will make its closest approach to Earth for the next 80,000 years and promises to be the “comet of the century.”
The Exemplary Manhood of Frontline Dads
So, what does it mean to be a Frontline Dad? Jones describes it as “exemplary manhood,” a recurring phrase taught to mentees. “You don’t have to be a biological father to be a dad,” he emphasizes. “We come from communities where we believe in taking a village to raise a child.”
Weaving Freedom Dreams: A Collaborative Poem
This poem was compiled at the Fall 2024 Release Party for Love Now Magazine. Attendees were asked to write down their feelings and responses to various prompts, in haiku format, and submit them anonymously for publication. Following the event, the haikus were compiled by curator Kim Russell into a longer form poem, published above.
