Tell Your Pride

On Tell Your Pride (WFNU 94.1 FM and wfnu.org), host Shimmer welcomes designer and barber Von-Taylor, first-place winner of the 2022 Prince Purple 1s Season 6 fashion competition with a Raspberry Beret–inspired look. He shares how he’s been making clothes for years, began teaching himself more seriously after his shop shut down in 2020, and how Shimmer encouraged him to compete after an earlier ye...

On WFNU Radio’s Tell Your Pride, host Shimmer (she/her) celebrates Minnesota’s Prince Rogers Nelson, reflecting on how his music, fashion, philanthropy, and fearless gender and self-expression influenced her identity. Shimmer and Katey discuss Shimmer’s Prince-inspired fashion competition, The Purple Ones, which began in 2016 after Prince’s death and invited Twin Cities designers to create origina...

Host Shimmer (she/her lady women glitter pronouns) welcomes Andi Otto (he/him), executive director of Twin Cities Pride since October 2022 after 16 years as a volunteer. Andi shares how he fell into the role, why he chose to be openly trans in leadership, and the ongoing challenge of representing a diverse LGBTQIA2S+ community while making space for more voices. He highlights expanding Twin Cities...

Host Shimmer welcomes Kimmy Hull, the founder of Sequeerity, a queer and POC-owned deescalation company dedicated to creating safer spaces for POCs and marginalized communities through physical presence, training, education, and community involvement. Kimmy shares how Sequeerity began as a liaison helping queer events navigate cis/hetero venues amid misgendering and misunderstandings, then expande...

On Episode 2 of Tell Your Pride , host Shimmer sits down with Twin Cities icon DJ DaddyRox aka Roxanne Anderson for a powerful conversation on community, culture, and creating space where it’s long been denied. From co-founding Our Space and advancing housing for trans, youth, and elder communities, to building alternatives to policing through REP, Rox shares a blueprint for collective care and li...

The premiere episode of Tell Your Pride starts with a powerhouse conversation. Host Shimmer welcomes Nomi Bad Boy—a two-spirited Indigenous Black transgender woman, Twin Cities Pride board chair, and celebrity hair and makeup artist whose life story is as bold as her talent. Nomi shares how she went from addiction, incarceration, and life on the margins to celebrating 14 years of sobriety andbuild...