Our Team

Sonny Oram is the founder of Qwear and a leader in the queer fashion movement. Sonny has been writing about, documenting, and experimenting with queer fashion for over 10 years, and has been called on as an expert in the media including Huffpo and Buzzfeed. Sonny has also been featured in Design*Sponge, QTYPE magazine, S Moda. In March 2016, Sonny spoke at South by South West's first official queer fashion panel.

Through Qwear, Sonny has helped launch famous campaigns such as #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike with Yasmin Benoit.

Sonny uses search engine optimization techniques to bring more diversity to search results for terms including “androgynous style”, “bisexual style” and “asexual.”

Sonny also brings their expertise to MIT as a Communications Officer. Their further talents expand to viola and painting.

As Qwear’s Fashion Director, Ru seeks to dismantle preconceived notions of gender expression and explore the identity constructs of queer fashion. Ru’s goal is to provide a platform for the community to share their stories with the aim of demystifying the borders of queer fashion and reinforcing queering fashion as an intimate experience closely related to one’s individuality.

Hailing from Scotland, with Trinidadian roots, this veteran designer and activist has immersed herself in queer theory and fashion for nearly a decade. A graduate of Rhode Island School Of Design, Ru merges their knowledge of queer theory and critical race theory with their passion for fashion. Recently, Ru’s work has been presented at Queer Fashion Week (2015), Rainbow Fashion Week (2015), The Institute Of Contemporary Art, Boston (2016 & 2017), and BU Art Galleries (2018).

Yasmin Benoit is a British model, multi-award-winning asexual activist, writer, speaker, media consultant and researcher. Described as the "unlikely face of asexuality" by Cosmopolitan Magazine, she quickly became a leading voice for the community after publicly coming out in 2017. She started the #ThisIsWhatAsexualLooksLike movement on Qwear for diverse asexual visibility and representation and co-founded International Asexuality Day (April 6).

Her unconventional approach to activism has been covered throughout British and international press, including Vogue, MTV, Sky News, Paper Magazine, Attitude Magazine and the BBC. In 2022, she launched the UK's first asexual rights initiative - the Stonewall x Yasmin Benoit Ace Project - in partnership with Stonewall. That same year, she won 'Campaigner of the Year' at the Rainbow Honours Awards.

Blessitt is a social justice advocate, digital strategist, ambulatory wheelchair user, and style expert who uses their love of activism and fashion to challenge the definition of beauty. 

By centering black, queer, femme, plus size, and disabled bodies in their work, Blessitt envisions a world people of all identities are celebrated and able to live freely and without apology. Their portrait can be found on display at the Eaton Hotel and Workshop, a socially engaged hotel and creative lab at the intersection of culture, media, hospitality, wellness, and progressive social change with locations in Washington, D.C. and Hong Kong. 

Blessitt currently resides in Kansas where they can often be found hosting brunch and mastering the perfect selfie. They currently work for the RX foundation and serve on the board of the Fostering Change Network. They were a founding member of the National LGBTQ Workers Center.