TRM BEHIND THE SCENES: Find community during COVID with expanded Calendar
To help provide support during this COVID-shaped winter season, we’ve made some big improvements to The Real MainStream Calendar. More online events, more recognition of nontraditional holidays, and more annual “awareness” days — both fun and serious — are now part of the Calendar, updated weekly and highlighted in the TRM Weekly newsletter. We’re all striving to find belonging and community, while also trying to stay away from each other! These challenges are peaking right +
Queer, BIPOC activists unpack white privilege, white urgency in “Dah Tea”
Burnout among Black activists and community leaders is real, and so is the role that white privilege can play — even among “woke” white people +
Iowa City’s WOB rises to challenges of COVID-19, historic bicycling interest
IOWA CITY — Here and there, silver linings exist during the COVID-19 crisis — and one of those is a burst in bicycling interest across +
Artwork: Council Bluffs artist reaches new heights during pandemic
Artist Cait Irwin isn't afraid to make statements with her art. +
SOMM Wines stays a step ahead, finds new COVID-aware location during crisis
UPDATE: As of Nov. 3, SOMM Wines is back open! Limited curbside pickup hours of NOON TO 5 PM TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. Watch Somm +
Coralville mom captures the emotion of her teen’s gender transition with “He”
“Basically, I am a gay mom who is also raising a 13-year-old trans guy. Being the parent of a trans kid is a unique experience, +