Available in a wide array of colors, Daisy Native's "Girls Support Girls" shirt could be seen across women's marches in January, worn as a sign of solidarity for all women. 

As Adrienne Dawes tells it, 2016 was a super crazy year for the multi-hyphenate playwright, director, producer, and all around creative force. In addition to writing and/or producing three sold out productions last year — Denim Doves, Love Me Tinder, and Doper than Dope — Dawes also ran the show at Heckle Her, an Austin-based production company committed to original comedies featuring people of color. 

Even if at times it may seem like it, not everyone in Austin is an aspiring musician, painter, maker, creator, etc. Knowing that, Candice Digby has focused her own talents — creative thinking and a penchant for community building — to help those who are creating art in this city (as well as those who want to be) thrive. 

Boss Babes ATX Resident Artist Dawn Okoro talks with us about self-reflexivity, what inspires her, and her process (lots of "A Seat at the Table" on repeat).  

Driven by a genuine need to help people and a commitment to the non-9-to-5 lifestyle, Ezra Edwards — perhaps better known as DJ GirlFriend — has been creating spaces for the Austin queer community since 2011.

Taking her business' name — "Poco A Poco," or little by little, in Spanish — to heart, Rebecca Ruiz Acosta has built the project into so much more than her original vision, working step by step to create a space for the misfits and the marginalized, the revolutionarias and rebeldes

After visiting her mother in Austin for what was supposed to be a two week stay, 2016 Babe of the Year Miriam Conner was transfixed by a tangible sense of the city's soulfulness and creativity. 

So she stayed — and has committed herself to carving out room for that soulfulness and creativity since.

It's appropriate that Claudia Gizell Aparicio-Gamundi derives her creative energy from community as she's been such a creative force for ours, whether through her work with Chulita Vinyl Club, Mosaico Experiencia, or Puro Chingøn Collective.