Connor Barry

Dami Quinones was 25 years old, her 2-year-old daughter Marlie was about to have brain surgery, and over 300 strangers had just paid for it.
This was the moment she began to realize that she had built something real online. Quinones’ Instagram page, @MiracleMarlie, which currently has over 7,000 followers, started out as a way to connect with family and friends during COVID-19.
She was 23 when her daughter was born four months premature. They spent the first six months after that in the hospital...

Marc Sirdoreus was in the second grade when they wrote their first song. 
Sirdoreus said that it wasn’t intentional; writing was just the way they began processing a particularly rough night of abuse.
“I had to go to school the next day … The next thing I knew, I was writing stuff, and it was a song,” Sirdoreus said. “Since then, I’ve used that process to think through situations I don’t understand, in song, so that I can remember it.”
Now, 25 years into a music career as Marc with a C, this met...

Juleigh Mayfield is an intersex woman and one of the biggest intersex advocates in Florida. Over the last 10 years, she has worked to educate people on what it means to be intersex and has fought for intersex rights and equal treatment, both socially and legally.

Chanting could be heard from across Loch Haven Park, even over the sounds of music blasting from the stage speakers.