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05-04-2017, 12:54 AM
This quirky new t-shirt company is run by homeless and LGBTQ youth
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A new streetwear brand is focused on making apparel with a purpose, helping at-risk youth **t only rise, but take flight.
The company, called dfrntpigeon (http://www.dfrntpigeon.com/), is giving marginalized youth in Portland, Oregon, the chance to design t-shirts that reflect their lives and experiences. The brand's first line of shirtsis called the Identity Collection (http://www.dfrntpigeon.com/store), featuring designs by six young people who created pieces representing their identities and perspectives.
SEE ALSO: These engaging, hyper-visual maps can help us better understand homelessness (http://mashable.com/2017/04/18/understanding-homelessness-map-data-viz/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Portland-based **nprofit New Avenues for Youth (http://newavenues.org/), which helps support at-risk youth through counseling, meals, and career services, launched the dfrntpigeon program in 2016 as a way for at-risk youth to express themselves through visual arts. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/03/dfrntpigeon-shirts-homeless-lgbtq-youth/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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A new streetwear brand is focused on making apparel with a purpose, helping at-risk youth **t only rise, but take flight.
The company, called dfrntpigeon (http://www.dfrntpigeon.com/), is giving marginalized youth in Portland, Oregon, the chance to design t-shirts that reflect their lives and experiences. The brand's first line of shirtsis called the Identity Collection (http://www.dfrntpigeon.com/store), featuring designs by six young people who created pieces representing their identities and perspectives.
SEE ALSO: These engaging, hyper-visual maps can help us better understand homelessness (http://mashable.com/2017/04/18/understanding-homelessness-map-data-viz/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
Portland-based **nprofit New Avenues for Youth (http://newavenues.org/), which helps support at-risk youth through counseling, meals, and career services, launched the dfrntpigeon program in 2016 as a way for at-risk youth to express themselves through visual arts. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/03/dfrntpigeon-shirts-homeless-lgbtq-youth/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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