On my way to thirty-seven years
I do not know if I’ll ever know
What in the living fuck I’m doing here
Does anyone know if this is normal?
I wonder, I wonder
✨Our next Queer Fandanguito is on 11/15 hosted by the mujeres of @corazondecedro 🌹
Corazón de Cedro’s Queer Fandanguito is a community fandango that centers and uplifts queer and femme voices, poesía and zapateado in Son Jarocho, a musical tradition rooted in resistance, celebration and collective liberation. Join us on the tarima as we lay down prayers in honor of our ancestors, our immigrant familia and our Palestinian relatives through melodies and rhythms that serenade our diasporic hearts.
Saturday, November 15th, 7-10pm
✨7pm - Doors
🫀7:30pm - Performance by @corazondecedro w/ special guests
🌹8-10pm - Community Fandanguito
🌼 Ofrenda by @yanelit.mz@sauceebae
📍Galeria de la Raza Studio 24
2779 Folsom St. Suite A
San Francisco, CA 94110
Bring your instruments and zapatos to join us on the tarima! Bring florecitas, your intentions, and recuerditos of loved ones for our ofrenda 🌼
♥️ This series is funded by @galeriadelaraza ReGen Artist Fund Grant
✨Art by our queride: @broobs
Grateful to be able to visit the motherland. I haven’t been since I was a child and wowee was it freaking beautiful. Wish we wouldn’t of gotten sick so we coulda done everything on our itinerary but such is life. It was a beautiful time regardless. Did it fix me? Maybe
Rest in peace to the legend Paquita La Del Barrio. I made this for @vivamusicfest back in 2022? I think that year was cancelled so this collage never came out.
2024, grateful for many beautiful memories, lovers and queers. Coming out from depression spiral and starting to feel again was a nice journey. Much love to my community💋
November 8th is #IntersexDayofRemembrance and it’s more important than ever to remember what is at stake if we continue to live in ignorance and fear of intersex people. Rest in Power #HerculineBarbin 💜💛
Excerpt from my piece “Bringing Intersexy Back” (@wussymag vol. 11 ft. artwork by @broobs ) :
“In the act of othering queer indigenous culture, a certain irony emerges in that some of the most detailed accounts we have of intersex people come from Europeans. A notable example is Herculine Barbin, an intersex person whose self-titled memoir provides us a glimpse at what queer life was like in 19th-century France. Assigned female at birth and raised accordingly, Herculine worked as a teacher at a convent until an affair with another woman resulted in her being medically examined and forced to live as a man, ultimately taking her own life. Intersex Day of Remembrance commemorates her birthday on November 8th and honors all intersex people whose lives have been lost to violence in a world that refused to love them, or even let them love themselves.”
It’s been a minute since I’ve posted or honestly felt like I’m present. I decided around the time that penny hit one year of chemo that I would try and just live my life, go out more, socialize, and focus on trying to fall in love with life. I want to be here. Art has taken a major step back because it was wearing on my body and soul. My arms hurt, my trigger finger is back but I do feel the need to create again. Finding the joy in that. I also might be starting to work for the post office which is a long time dream of mine. My birthday is next week so I just wanted to share some updates of where I am.
Happiest birthday to my mother, the one and only, La Shorty Tina. Always inspired by her and her ability to love. So lucky to have a mother like you. 💕
