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Thank you MIT for having us at your first Pridefest! With our Qwear Zine cover model Amanda Shea as MC, the event drew hundreds from the MIT community and beyond.
Julia Turcotti, one of MIT Pridefest's organizers, shared her team's dedication to building on both the strength and the joy of MIT's community through the celebration. "MIT is the home of most of the most incredible people I've ever met, and it's worth fighting for. Today showed us that we'll never be fighting alone."
When Blessitt Shawn B. was 32, they developed debilitating back pain. Doctors blamed their weight and cerebral palsy, told them it would never get better, and said to prepare to leave the workforce.
They were dead wrong. There is treatment. But like so many disabled people, Blessitt had to fight through dismissal, delay, and denial to even get close to it.
In their latest essay for Qwear, Blessitt calls out Medicaid budget cuts, urgency culture, and the violent systems that devalue disabled and chronically ill lives—especially Black, trans, and nonbinary ones.
Alexander is a SoCal-based creative whose fashion is equal parts affirmation and rebellion. Raised in Venezuela and later Florida, they grew up in a conservative household where clothing was strictly gendered and didn’t begin exploring their identity as a transgender, nonbinary person until adulthood. Since then, he’s embraced style as a tool for self-expression, healing, and resistance by blending masculine and feminine elements to reflect the full spectrum of who he is. Whether they’re pulling inspiration from Julia Fox’s avant-garde chaos or Mariah Carey’s Y2K glam, Alexander’s style is a walking declaration: confidence is the most important thing you can wear.
