Where Do We Begin?

Atiyana, Founder(left) and Darnel, Content Creator and Business Owner (insta @fatmandkc)

Love and Community are hand in hand. I want this site to be an extensions of all your communities. Here, we share knowledge, we share skills, and space, and time, and passion. This is a space to boost artists and creators and their creations and services. This is a place for communion and communication, honoring rage and wonder alike; we come here to speak, to share. Here you can find that thing you’re looking for that you used to buy from Amazon but there’s a black owed business that sells it and you want to support them instead. Here you find a reprieve from soul sucking, energy leaching, mindless information that either sends you despairing or numbs you. Here is hope. And the love and understanding that will help sustain it.

I do not know a lot. I aim to learn more every day. I had to learn to be a better person, to be kinder and more loving and more generous with myself, before I could hear this project calling out to me. It is ambitious—something I never thought I was or ever would be, and I implore you to be as well when you use this site. Can’t find something you want to hear about? Send your own piece or request the topic. Think a piece on here doesn’t cover what you think it ought to or is wrong (cause who really knows what wrong or right is in a vacuum)? Comment. This website should be as engaging as possible and I hope that you want to engage with it. If not, tell me why. Trust me, I care.

My name is Atiyana Ringling and I am the Editor-in-Chief, Executive Creative Director, and Founder of the site. I want to be content with my life(because happiness is not a constant state and shouldn’t be, that’s a lot) and I want you to be content to. That’s how we save the world.