What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
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PEOPLE TO WATCH 8 WHAT'S UP! JANUARY 9-15, 2022 would like to immerse myself in those ideas in 2022! I'd also like to show people that even though I have a romantic relationship with my pepperoni pizza, I can still act and sing while being comfortable with my body. I would like to showcase my skills in creating movies and music, to move people with my acting and singing. Taking it one day at a time and executing the present with a positive outlook. That is what I hope to do in 2022." Love Delia Founder New Legacy Village Known as "Delia," "Ms. Delia," "Love" or "Love Delia" — like a sign- off like at the end of a love letter — Ms. Delia came from a childhood that wasn't as picturesque as her Berkeley, Calif., roots. "My parents had five children and adopted five children when I was young," she explains. "We were later taken away from my family of origin due to physical and sexual abuse and neglect, and I lived in the first of many foster homes. In and out of foster care starting at the tender age of 6, I would almost age out of the foster care system at the age of 17 1/2." Undeterred, Delia studied religion at Pepperdine University and moved to Arkansas shortly after she graduated in 2006. Now, having suffered from housing instability and food instability herself, she has made it her goal is to create an open source housing model that can be replicated, duplicated and modified in order to "make homelessness history!" Delia's New Legacy Village is modeled after concepts like college or the military, where almost everything was included, but she says that's not good enough. "All-inclusive," she says, should include "everything" — housing, food, utilities, child care and a salon, store, garden, cafe and more. In 2022, she says, her goals are to create partnerships with professionals who want to help change the world; link up with trade schools and community colleges and create internships and apprenticeships with local tradesmen and women; launch the website about the organization; create learning materials for the residents that will help them transition into the village as easily as possible; get "loads of grants and funding"; break ground or purchase a structure; staff New Legacy Village; launch New Legacy Village; fill it with residents; change the world; and repeat. "Anyone who knows me knows that I fix broken things and I create new ideas," she says. "This is not only in my wheelhouse, but this is right up my alley." If you would like help, reach out to Delia at newlegacyvillage@gmail.com. Maddy Morphosis Drag performer 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Born in Russellville, Maddy Morphosis — yes, that's a stage name — has lived in a small town outside of Fayetteville since the age of 3 or 4. "We lived out in the country, and so there wasn't much to do. I spent most of my time just sitting around playing video games — pretty standard boring childhood. But I think I was always drawn to performing to some degree. In high school, I was in band, choir and drama. I think there was one year I did all three! "From high school, I went to the UA for a few years. Life happened, and I didn't manage to finish my degree, but I still have plans to hopefully go back to school at some point. Other than that, I've just been working different retail jobs around Northwest Arkansas and became a full-time performer about a month before the cast announcement." When Maddy says "performer," it means in drag. "I always kind of wrestled with 'masculinity' and 'femininity.' I never understood why there was that line between them, or why certain things were assigned to men and women. And the only people I ever saw that crossed those lines were gay and trans people in TV and movies or online," Maddy muses. "So the fact that I questioned it, and had interests in 'feminine' things like makeup and fashion, made me question myself. Like, was I gay or trans and didn't realize it? And my journey of self discovery led me to C4 [Nightclub and Lounge] in Fayetteville. It was one of the few places I knew of where you could go and not be judged for being different, and was a place where I could explore my own identity and talk with other people in the community. "Drag just happened to be there, and People 2022 Continued From Page 7 Love Delia Blaire Hastings