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How Black Girls Code is Bridging the Digital Divide

In 2020, a projected 1.4 million computing jobs will become available in the United States. Kimberly Bryant, Founder and CEO of Black Girls Code, is training the next generation of women of color to take advantage of these growing opportunities and enter this burgeoning industry. Through its coding programs and…

BY Jordan Roberts
Kimberly Bryant

Twice as Anxious: Seth Rogen Unveils Two Comedies at SXSW

Twelve years ago, SXSW audiences were the first to discover that Seth Rogen was a leading man when the festival premiered a work-in-progress screening of Knocked Up. Three months later, Rogen had earned so much star clout that he reshaped the Hollywood comedy in his image: jokey and smokey and…

BY SXSWorld
Seth Rogen. Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for SXSW

At A Glance: Meet Sophie Roach, SXSW 2019’s Big Bag Artist

SXSW 2019’s Registrant Bag artist, Sophie Roach, is a self-taught artist who splits time between Austin and Brooklyn, New York. By using familiar shapes, patterns, and her own intuition, she has created a unique visual language based on spontaneity and rhythm. In addition to commercial collaborations with both local and…

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For Ross Golan, Theory and Intuition Go Hand in Hand

For Ross Golan, Theory and Intuition Go Hand in Hand Multi-platinum songwriter on his creative process, podcasting, and advocacy Songwriter Ross Golan knows that hits aren’t written by mistake. “Composition is all about editing. That’s when theory thrives,” he says. “Most of the time, I trust the numbers over my…

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Ross Golan. Photo by Matty Vogel

Everyone Wins on Arlan Hamilton’s Level Playing Field

Arlan Hamilton could tell you the story of how she started up Backstage Capital four years ago and gave up a promising career in the music business to pursue her dream of founding a venture capital fund for people who, like her — a black, queer woman without a college…

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Arlan Hamilton speaking at Bloomberg in NYC, 2018. Courtesy of Bloomberg

New Comedy Series Takes On the Struggle for Self-Love

There is a moment early in the first episode of the new Hulu series Shrill when Aidy Bryant’s character Annie puts on a shirt and checks herself out in the mirror. She doesn’t feel comfortable in it, so she squats down and pulls the shirt over her knees to stretch…

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Shrill - Photo by Allyson Riggs/Hulu

Back From the Brink, The Chills Can Write Their Own History

“It would be hard now to understand just how isolated we were,” says Martin Phillipps, who founded The Chills in 1980 in a then-remote Dunedin, New Zealand, long before the internet made music videos, websites and global radio streams instantly accessible. “We had so little contact with the reality of…

BY SXSWorld
The Chills. Photo by Alex Lovell-Smith

Algoraves Put Live Performance Into Programming

Let’s start with a basic question… What is Algorave? “Algorave is a stupid term. It’s a funny term. It’s a silly term. Algorithm is a term that just is intimidating by its nature. People think algorithms are complicated things, but sometimes they are simple things, like basic mathematics. Algorave makes…

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AlgoBabez. Photo by Antonio Roberts
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