Category: Lifestyle

Your Guide to Women and Non-Binary Tattoo Artists in Kansas City

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By The Catcall Team
Photos by Whitney Young and Travis Young

Whether you’re carefully planning your first tattoo or ready to add to a growing collection,—psst, many tattoo parlors offer discounts on tattoos on Friday the 13th—choosing the right artist to ink out your dreams is a must. 

At Catcall, we’re partial to our gals and non-binary pals in the Kansas City metro who get us—and what we’re looking for in a tattoo. So, we made a guide to all the female and non-binary tattoo artists in the KC metro we could track down.

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Woman & queer-owned indie film company New 32 puts inclusion first

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By Sophia-Joelle McDowell

New 32 Productions is a small, woman and queer-owned independent film company based in North Carolina. The company bases its decisions on values and is hell-bent on creating better conditions for creators in indie film. 

With New 32 Productions, they focus on developing small crews of people who are treated well and are good at what they do. And their team is stacked.

Raven Angeline Whisnant wears a lot of hats. She leads the team, films, produces, directs, edits, writes, and constantly needs to be ready to deal with whatever the day calls for. Co-founder Charlie Monroe is another woman of many talents. Monroe is even starring as the title character in the upcoming comedy Bernard Gets Famous. Additionally, she wrote their new short film debut, Biters & Bleeders.

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Madigan’s Intersectional Feminist Podcast Might Just Be Essential Listening

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By Sophia-Joelle McDowell

When Trump campaigned for president in 2016, he rejected feminism. By the end of his presidency, the list of sexist comments he made was lengthy. His views on women fueled the growth of many feminist activists. Madigan and her previous co-host Keegan of the Your Angry Neighborhood Feminist podcast were no exception.

After attending a march the day after Trump was elected, the two wanted to make a more significant statement. Eager to keep the conversation going, Your Angry Neighborhood Feminist was born to create a space for support, education, and growth.

We spoke with Madigan about the podcast and goal to create a community of loving and like-minded intersectional feminists and a place for support.

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Screaming your way to a spiritual awakening

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By Erin Gabriel

Candice Wells screams for a living.

No, we’re not talking about screamo music. We’re talking about breathwork. As the owner and facilitator of Screamwerk in Denver, Colo., Candice is a breathwork facilitator, energy worker, yoga teacher, and entrepreneur who guides individuals to scream their way to a spiritual awakening.

When most people think of breathwork, yoga breathing patterns to calm the nervous system or active breathing techniques like what you see on apps like Calm or HeadSpace may come to mind. But Screamwerk utilizes a form of psychedelic or somatic breathwork, which is more focused on the body. 

“As I taught breathwork classes, I recognized that a primal scream timed at an integral moment of the practice helped to fully release pent-up feelings,” Candice says.

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Cafe Cà Phê Invites You to Celebrate AAPI Heritage at AAPICONIC 2023

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By: Nicole Mitchell

Kansas City’s first Vietnamese coffee shop Cafe Cà Phê is hosting another iconic festival this spring at Columbus Square Park, and you’re invited. Join the party on May 20 for the second annual Kansas City AAPI Festival, presented by Fresh Karma Dispensaries.

The theme is ICONIC: A Throwback To 1999—a time where music, fashion, and pop-culture were at their finest. Fresh Prince was on the TV and Britney Spears ruled the world. The aesthetic for the event is “1990s Magazine Cover,” so dig out your favorite tube tops and acid-wash jeans and join for a day of live entertainment, booths by local makers and artisans, and nostalgic vignettes designed specifically for photo ops.

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