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A Room of One’s Own, established 1975 in downtown Madison, is Wisconsin’s oldest queer, feminist bookstore and one of only 14 queer bookstores left in America today. Join director Ashley Harrison in an intimate conversation about the store’s past, present, and future with current Room employees Gretchen Treu and Fawzy Taylor.

Comic Books are seen as a fad industry, where sales can be unpredictable. Fallen from their place in the mainstream, comic book stores must adapt in order to survive. In this short documentary, Casmir Byrne shows us how two local shops are dealing with the current scenario.

“I was an orang kosong,” said Karim Mohammad Shafie. Orang kosong is the term many Rohingya use to describe themselves due to their status as a stateless person. From Malay, it directly translates into empty person. Shafie, originally from Myanmar, is one of those Rohingya.  Arriving in Milwaukee as a refugee in 2017, Shafie has […]

Dr. Swarnjit Arora is a retired economics professor at UWM who has worked in higher education for over 50 years. Born in colonial-era British Subcontinent, he had to relocate from modern day Pakistan to India (moving between refugee camps for most of his early life until he settled in Punjab), and later went on to […]

Emmanuel Rogers; also known as Manocutz, is a well-known barber, entrepreneur and content creator in the Milwaukee community. The 26- year-old Milwaukee native has always had a passion for cutting hair and is always looking for new ways to grow his clientele. With a busy work schedule, Manny finds ways toincorporate marketing for his clothing […]

Samantha Goldman is a passionate violinist and first chair in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee orchestra. From a young age, Sam has always had a deep love for music, spending countless hours practicing, performing, and immersing herself in the world of classical and contemporary sound. Now a college student, she is chasing her dream of one […]

Melee Queen and Roxy Delarue Toxin are both Milwaukee-based Drag Queens. Both have been performing in drag for years and have a fond love for the art form. With the recent closure of This Is It (Tits), Wisconsin’s oldest gay bar, Milwaukee drag culture has suffered an immense loss. Despite this, queens such as Melee […]

Every year, the Milwaukee Public Library partners with the Bindery to host the Milwaukee Zine Fest, which attracts vendors and attendees from all around the nation to celebrate zine culture and participate in a creative space.

There are 68 teams, and it went down to only two teams in the 2025 NCAA championship game. The number one seed, the Houston Cougars, were trying to win their first tournament, and the number one seed, the Florida Gators, were trying to win their third one. This is the Houston Cougars’ third appearance, but […]

Recent international student distress has contributed to low campus morale at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a campus-wide action team says they wish the Student Association was more active in giving students a voice. The Campus Community Issues Action Team held a meeting on April 23 which looked at the morale of the campus along […]

This Is It, Milwaukee’s oldest gay bar, permanently closed due to financial troubles stemming from COVID closures and road work, according to an Instagram post from March 9.    “We have closed our doors permanently,” said the bar in the post announcing the closing. “The COVID crisis and the years following 2020, coupled with the 8-month […]

A “Day without Immigrants” protest and rally held Thursday morning included demands for the release of Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, who was arrested for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest.   The rally and march, organized by local civil and workers’ rights advocacy group Voces De La Frontera, began outside their offices on […]