In a booth at the Durham Art Walk Holiday Market one Saturday morning, Nicole Kligerman tells two very different stories with the clothing she wearsone of fast fashion and one of slow fashion. Over a simple black top from American Eagle and jeans from Urban Outfitters, she wears a vibrant, indigo-dyed silk kimono with a […]
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For Some Breast Cancer Survivors, Nipple Tattoos Offer a Return to Normalcy
Tara Dunsmore never imagined she would grow up to be a tattoo artist. The forty-three-year-old registered nurse never got into drawing as a kid. She pursued a medical path in school rather than an artistic one. But after being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012 and undergoing a double mastectomy, Dunsmore heard about areola tattooing […]
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A Transgender Woman Comes Out and Reshapes Her North Carolina Family
Since moving back to North Carolina in May, Christine Newton Bush has been carrying an envelope labeled “For N.C.” in her purse. The envelope contains name-change documents, a newly printed birth certificate, and a signed letter from the board-certified surgeon who performed her gender affirmation surgery. “You and I sitting here don’t need to carry […]
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At Moogfest, Cyborg Activists Take Wearable Tech to the Next Level—Inside Their Bodies
NEIL HARBISSON Thursday, May 19, 4 p.m., PSI Theatre, Durham Friday, May 20, 10 a.m., Carolina Theatre, Durham MOON RIBAS Friday, May 20, 1:45 p.m., PSI Theatre, Durham www.moogfest.com Transhuman rights is a burgeoning idea, and many self-described cyborgs see a battle brewing over the right to engineer their bodies and minds, expand their senses, […]
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UNC-TV’s new series Reel South sends real Southern stories far and wide
REEL SOUTH UNC-TV, 9 & 9:30 p.m. Mondays in January After a recent episode of Antiques Roadshow on UNC-TV, Alamance County dairy farmer Randy Lewis sat in front of his television with friends and local filmmakers Jason Arthurs and Ted Richardson to watch scenes from his life in The Last Barn Dance. The 26-minute documentary, […]
