join me along with sweet Sarah with @kissandrideatl and the lovely folks at @liminalspaceatl in a friendly spring book swap. part with some beloved books and pick up some new finds for your collection. 📚✨ liminal space is located off @littlefivepointsatl and parking is available off Mansfield Avenue. masks are encouraged outside and *required* indoors. monetary donations can go to supporting the revamping of Kiss and Ride, the link is in both our bios.
Sunday March 22nd from 11am-2pm. we hope to see you there! 💜
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leftover books will be donated to a local substance use treatment facility but please DM me recommendations.
❤️🔥sometimes my life feels small but I am never too bored sad or lonely for long. ⛓️❤️🔥
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thankful for all of the people and experiences lighting up my life 🥹
something about this year felt like i had to show up, and not for the reasons i expected 🌈 i have gratitude that i haven’t had to endure what some community members have and yet, i hope my work can be rooted in gender and relationship liberation that releases us from the ideas of worth as transactional and value as self-sacrifice. this means forgiving people who have harmed me, even if only for myself. this means offering warmth again and again and again until independent friends finally realize they don’t have to do this alone. this means asking more of my relationships even when it’s uncomfortable. this means showing up and failing and not getting it right. this means changing in every moment, like a spectrum.
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i think of it as a paper chain, some of us start drowning, burning, are cut or ripped apart. but I won’t stop gluing and stapling and adding new bits and pieces because dammit i refuse to stop holding your hand until we both can’t any longer.
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Photo ID: a Black trans masc person (1) wearing a white crop tank top and jean shorts a pin is in the shirt where a nipple would be underneath and says “they/them” on it. they are also wearing necklaces, one that has a testosterone vial on it. two Black queer friends, one more femme presenting one more masc presenting (2 & 1) posing in front of a colorful pride themed background. two Black queer friends (1 & 3) smiling in a selfie. a photo of an instant photo with two friends (1 & 3) hanging out on a blanket on a field at Atlanta Pride.
🍁 A U T U M N 🍁
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been very busy with school, internship and going to a few events here and there as i can.
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Photo ID: a white man and black genderqueer person hiking, a white appearing drag king performing on stage, a PowerPoint part featuring a PowerPoint title slide that says “Steven Universe characters and what drugs they should try”, a sound bath setup with a white shag rug sound bowls chimes and pillows, a white man at a river, orange chicken of the wood mushrooms, a classroom with an Asian woman professor lecturing, a full moon, a Black man identified person singing karaoke, a fried pecan pie, a mixed gender and race group of friends smiling after moving, a sunset in a Walmart parking lot.
WOOF 2019! I was definitely more inspired at the time but I have grown in technique since then
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Picture ID: a self portrait, ambiguous ethnicity Brown woman in streetwear, @iamtianapink_ , cosmic Brown woman, a scene of Athens GA (at hendershots specifically 😆)
since 2023! this has been my “make complete works” sketchbook and it’s been nice challenge to push myself to execute my ideas fully. some are wips but I intend to fully finish them. at the same time, i think my next sketchbook will be focused on doing studies and sketches. the duality of it all is nice.
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Picture ID: two winged battleworn cats taking refuge in each other, a scene from spirited away, an impressionist style pond, a Luna moth and orchid, a young black girl in pajamas, and 80’s style businesswoman on the phone.
besitos💋
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photo dump of a black trans masc person (Kai). a plant store. a photo of a video shoot. a group of black friends. a rainbow through a rainy window. Kai and a friend eating Korean bbq. Kai doing yoga. a black tortie cat.
Trans Day of Visibility 2025 with @snap4freedom
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two Black trans masc people at Atlanta City Hall smiling at the camera while attendees are sitting in the background.
looks like yr stuck with me 🤭🤭 i didn’t think meeting you at UGA would mean over ten years of friendship and cosigning my shenanigans but here we are
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photos are of a black woman and black nonbinary person at a park and at a restaurant patio.
Glo you bring so much effortless joy in my life. may the love you deserve continue to find you. i will always be here for the late night FaceTimes, dreaming about the future and catching up on the latest celeb dr@m @. can’t wait to travel the world with you! 🫦🤧🙄🥰
not gonna lie…relationships have impactful on my self esteem and my life in general. i realized i was too willing to put aside every need to attend to an avoidant, angry person and we would cycle between me bringing things that were harmful, them avoiding the conversation, getting loud, or getting so mad they were yelling or became violent, then later apologizing profusely, things would be okay for a while, then go back again.
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i admit that i allowed myself to be codependent with someone because i felt i was missing something and craving any love that came my way.
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since then i’ve been intentional with learning to date and love myself more authentically. i go out to events alone, i take myself to dinner, i hike, i started using a self date jar. i took a bunch of things i enjoy doing, put them in a jar, and when i have a free day i do something random from the jar.
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i also do something i call bouquet of the week (or really month) where i take some flowers from the discount section and make a little arrangement. my last one i made of wildflowers i picked. i was running late to class and decided to just let go, slow down, and pick flowers on my drive. those few more minutes were more meaningful than stressing myself out and being hard on myself for what I wasn’t doing right. it feels really good to be more comfortable with myself.
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