Sharla Steinman

1 month ago | oregonlive.com | Sharla Steinman

On “Blurring Time,”the title track to Bells Larsen’s latest album, listeners hear the song sway between a high, female-sounding voice, and a low, male-sounding voice. “It’s not as simple as either or. I am both and I’m more, most of all I’m unsure,” Larsen recites. While the song may sound like it was recorded by two different artists, this isn’t a duet. It’s entirely sung by Larsen, who uses his voice to tell the story of his sophomore album, released last month.

1 month ago | unclosetedmedia.com | Sharla Steinman

On “Blurring Time,”the title track to Bells Larsen’s latest album, listeners hear the song sway between a high, female-sounding voice, and a low, male-sounding voice. “It's not as simple as either or. I am both and I’m more, most of all I’m unsure,” Larsen recites. While the song may sound like it was recorded by two different artists, this isn’t a duet. It's entirely sung by Larsen, who uses his voice to tell the story of his sophomore album, released last month.

Feb 7, 2025 | theemancipator.org | Sharla Steinman

This story was first published by Uncloseted Media. Kennedi Lowman thought it was another routine blood donation day. But in a single moment, her life was forever altered — shocked by an HIV-positive diagnosis she never saw coming. “It was scary, heartbreaking, and shameful. Working in medicine and having my degrees, knowing what I knew about STIs. ‘Why me? How me?’” Lowman told Uncloseted Media.

Feb 2, 2025 | unclosetedmedia.com | Sharla Steinman

Kennedi Lowman thought it was another routine blood donation day. But in a single moment, her life was forever altered—shocked by an HIV-positive diagnosis she never saw coming. Lowman, a 38-year-old Black woman in Atlanta, Georgia, was a medical technologist at the time of her 2016 diagnosis, which came as a total shock.

Oct 7, 2024 | nytimes.com | Anvee Bhutani |Sharla Steinman

Columbia University has been a focal point of anger and tensions over the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7 last year and the war in Gaza that has followed. On Monday, the anniversary of the attack, it took on that role once again, as students and faculty held rallies, class walkouts and vigils to mourn the lives lost in both Israel and Gaza.