Thank YOU. In just two hours we raised over $1000 dollars for @immigrantfreedomfund and @casadepazco ❤️‍🔥🍚 I still have more cookbooks to sell so once this first print run is completely sold out I will send the funds! I will also keep y’all updated with where I will continue to sell and how much we fundraised altogether! And to be honest, I was so so anxious organizing this event. Honestly every event comes with some fear and anxiety but thank you to everyone for your grace and affirmations. I’m really tough on myself and get afraid that something might go wrong or folks might feel left out at these gatherings. But I’m reminded that these spaces are co-created and that things work out because of community like y’all who are so so kind and supportive. I know I sound like a broken record, but these spaces really doesn’t exist without y’all. Thank you for showing up. For believing in me and these efforts. For supporting. For caring for one another. I’m really honored and humbled every time I see new and familiar faces at these gatherings. Truly truly thank YOU. 🥹🫶🏼 ID 1: a photo of Helen standing in a cream t-shirt with a three lady rice bag print that says “abolish ice” and blue cargo jeans. She’s smiling holding three black “fuck Ice, eat rice” cookbook! The background is a white hoop farm and purple irises ID 2: a photo of handmade ingredient card with drawing and words of Helen’s mom fried rice with the fried rice behind it ID 3: a photo of the potluck food table full of rice, food and drinks ID 4: a photo of a white table with rice arts that says “Fuck ICE” and “Eat Rice” and a small hand point at the art piece ID 5: a photo of a group of friends masked and a little girl smiling and making hand signs. The background is white hoop house ID 6: a photo of the Urban Farm. There is a dirt road with trees and animals around ID 7: a darkly edited photo of Helen holding three of the cookbooks on her right arm. Around her our emojis of the rice bowl, 100, fire and ice

When I say “Fuck I.C.E.”, I’m not just talking about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, I’m also talking about the Imperial, Colonial/ Capitalist Empires that creates these violent conditions in the first place. This cookbook is more than food and culture, it’s a place for (political) education and hope. My intention is to respect food in a way that fuels our mindbodyspirit (literally and figuratively) and the revolution. Food is more than just for consumption. It’s for community building. Cultural Preservation. Connections. Crumbling of empires. If food is used as weapon in wars, my hope is to uphold food in a way where it builds people power and return material needs back to our communities ❤️‍🔥 Also, I wanted to make this post because these photos taken by the brilliant @sophiacalderonfoto didn’t make it into the “Fuck I.C.E., Eat Rice” community cookbook but still deserve to be SEEN. I knew from the beginning that I wanted you to be a part of the project and I’m so honored and grateful to collab with you and have your art in the cookbook 🥹 I love your vision and the heart you put into each and every piece you create and capture. Sophia is also currently working on her own photobook and it truly is such a beautiful reflection of the South. Please please follow her too if you haven’t yet, you don’t want to miss out on her art and storytelling! She’s truly a visionary! 🫶 Last but not least, what are y’all bringing to the rice potluck?? Let me know in the comment! Or please add it into the Google sheets 🤪 ID in comments

I had the honor of attending the opening night of @yammakesstuff solo exhibition “Rice, Root, and the Road to Cultural Exploration”🍚❤️‍🔥. It was so so sweet to finally meet you in person and see your stunning art pieces! The places and art you created for your community and people to be seen and celebrated was so inspiring to witness. Thank you for being you and the culmination of all who became before you. ✨ If you want to see more of Yam’s amazing art, go follow her (if you haven’t yet) AND buy the “Fuck ICE, Eat Rice” Community cookbook! The cookbook has multiple rice art by Yam that depicts the cultural significance of rice in India— from the grains of rice being sown all the way to the final meal shared on the dining table! This cookbook was meant to also honor migration and the people who left their homeland to create a better life for themselves and their family. I thought it was so precious that your parents and my mom was there to see all of our work 🥹 And also how Seattle was the place my mom came to when she first landed on Turtle Island 35 years ago. Truly a full circle moment. All in all, the art/ photos/ stories/ recipes in this cookbook is a representation the labor of love it takes to grow and create something—even if we don’t get to see the fruits of it or who it will nourish, it’s still worth it. Thank you to the older generations and ancestors who helped planted and water the seeds. Thank you to the current and future generations for tending it and imagining a better world for all of us. Never underestimate what a single seed can do and the village it takes to grow it 🫶🏼 ID coming soon

IT’S HERREEEEE!!! I hope to see y’all at “Fuck ICE, Eat Rice” community cookbook and rice potluck on Saturday, May 16th from 5-7p at The Urban Farm !! 🍚❤️‍🔥 This project has been almost a year in a half in making and it’s been a rollercoasters of emotions but I’m overall feeling really grateful and excited to sell these cookbooks to fundraise for local immigrant orgs and funds in Colorado! This time the funds will go to @immigrantfreedomfund and @casadepazco ! I also want to give gratitude to every single person who submitted to this cookbook and shared your stories and recipes with me. It truly was such an honor to hold and document it all into this cookbook. I was touched by every submission and can’t wait for others to read your stories and try out some of these special recipes 🥹 I also want to thank @yammakesstuff for supporting this project and allowing me to add your beautiful art pieces in here. I’m so grateful for the connection that came from this! Also, to my dear friend @sophiacalderonfoto for always willing to dream and create with me!! Your photography in this book makes it even more special!! 🫶🏼 And last but not least, thank you to @lanisilvaa for helping figure out logistic and find a place for this event!! It truly takes a village so thank you for being a part of it! If you all have any questions, comments and concerns, let me know! Also, pleasseeee if you’re bringing something to the rice potluck, fill out the sheets through the QR code so we can better plan for this event!! Thank you again and can’t wait to see y’all 🥰 ID IN COMMENTS

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! 🗓️ The official “Fuck ICE, Eat Rice” community cookbook release and rice potluck in Colorado will be on May 16th, 5-7p! Location and more information to come!!! I’ve also been casually selling the cookbooks to some homies in the Bay Area and a family friend but have already raised $300 so far and wanted this first round of donation to go to @colorado_trans_immigrant_fund , specifically for Ranay! Transgender migrants faces higher level of violence in ICE such as physical and sexual assault, long-term solitary confinement, and the denial of lifesaving gender-affirming services. The goal though is not to pinkwash ICE through Transgender “Care” but through abolishing the entire system. To care for our Trans community is to get rid of systems and structures that create the violence in the first place. On top of that, Ranay is a Black transgender women, adding a layer of racism and danger to her identity as she moves through these oppressive systems and possibly be deported to a country she hasn’t seen in 40 years, where there are no protections for transgender people. So please continue to share and support Ranay! If Ranay is deported before they secure a lawyer, any funds raised will still be used to help other immigrants in detention needing legal services!! Also, the next set of donations will go to @casadepazco and @immigrantfreedomfund ! There’s only a limited about of cookbooks so you don’t want to miss out!!! ❤️‍🔥 ID in comment

Going to the Asia Center is always a trip down memory lane for me. But when I saw little kids and intergenerational families there yesterday, it reminded me that so many new memories are still being made there and how important this space is for us. After witnessing and hearing so many stories yesterday from the community, I wanted to start collecting and documenting our personal stories and testimonies around the Asia Center to show the city and developers that WE ARE HERE TO STAY!! This is a way for us to preserve our stories and spaces. To share our experience and come together. Please submit your stories and memories so we can show to the businesses, city council and the developers, how much this place means to us! May our stories be a testimony of our love for our community, an ode to the generations before us, and a reminder to fight for future generations. 🫶🏼 I also want to share that what is happening to the Asia Center is not new. Development in and displacement of BIPOC community has been happening in Denver for decades. I know of people and hear their stories of being displaced in historic neighborhoods such as Five Points, GES, the Northside, Westwood, etc. These communities have been there for generations and are still being pushed out by gentrification and greed. It’s a consequence of capitalism. They will always say that it will make the neighborhood “better” but for who? Who benefits? Who profits? Profit should never be more important than the people. Development does not need to lead to displacement. Whatever changes that comes to South Federal needs to come from the community and not city or corporate interest. I’ve seen the resilience in these Denver neighborhoods and believe in the power and fight in our communities. Also, if you haven’t yet please sign and share the petition started by @katrina.realtor ! Thank you for spearheading this ❤️‍🔥 #WereHereToStay #SaveAsiaCenterDenver ID in comment

Extremely honored to contribute photography to “F*ck I.C.E., Eat Rice: A Community Cookbook” 🍚 Within the cookbook you will find a wide diaspora of rice recipes, poems, photography, rice-centered memories, and stunning artwork by @yammakesstuff The prologue says it best: “The “Fuck ICE, Eat Rice” cookbook is a culmination of the labor of love passed down from the generations before us— and the radical imagination that has sprouted from its environment. The story of rice is also a story of migration. A story of resilience. Of hope. Of possibility. And believing that a single grain can feed a whole village. This community cookbook is about preserving and honoring that legacy and love. It’s about believing another world is possible even if we don’t see the fruits of our labor. Even “a single grain of rice can tip the scale”, so please don’t underestimate yourself and the impacts that you will leave behind. Because every act of resistance rooted in love is never wasted. When we are no longer here, may the recipes and stories in this community cookbook be a testament of our love and care for one another.” Dedicated to all who dream(ed) that a better world was possible. Available through May at @_common_objects with all proceeds going to the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project 🤎

Get your copy! 📖 🍚 I’m so excited to announce the official first print run of “F*ck Ice, Eat Rice,” edited by @standing_eggg with photography by @sophiacalderonfoto calderonfoto, who are amazing Colorado based artists and activists! Together, we rallied our communities to create an incredible cookbook for a cause. Every recipe, poem, photograph, and artwork in these pages is a reminder of communal resilience. Reading the prologue had me in tears; this zine perfectly encapsulates the themes I strive to portray in my own work. I couldn’t have imagined a better partnership. I can’t wait to try some of these recipes! And if you’ve been looking for some kind of print of my work, this is your chance! Thank you @standing_eggg for including so many images of my pieces. Details: 📍 Available through May @_common_objects 🤝 All proceeds go to the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (@n.w.i.r.p ) Huge thanks to: ✨ All the contributors for sharing a piece of yourselves ❤️ ✨ @foxcryillustration for sending me the call for submissions—I never imagined it would kick off such an amazing journey! (And I’m so glad your beautiful poem is in here, too! ❤️) ✨ @kc4culture for funding this run of 100 copies!

2026 TWICE THIS IS FOR WORD TOUR @twicetagram 💙 Thanks for being the best little big sister @chuchu_hoamary and for always being my “chaperone” despite barely knowing ANY kpop 🤪 Can’t believe our first concert was ten years ago! [image description 1: a selfie of Helen in a red crochet hat with charms and pearls. She is wearing a black leather jacket with red tinted makeup and face gem neat her eyes. The background is white ID 2-3: a photo collage of Helen in the Same outfit and background sitting back to back with her sister who is wearing a read long sleeve sweater and blue pants. There is two photos in frames of Helen and her sister and another with her mom that is on both slide 2 &3. On slide 3 is Helen standing front of the Ball Arena with hands holding freebies of photo cards and bracelet in a plastic bag ID 4-5: a collage that has a green and purple poster of Jihyo posing and then the background of the stage with a blue and white neon sign that reads “twice this is for” and twice letter cutouts underneath ID 6-7: a collage again of the concert showing the members of twice and photos of Helen in a black mask with her sister throughout the concert. Image 8: an old selfie of Helen and her sister from ten years ago at another kpop concert. Helen is wearing a white cap backwards, a pink too and black overalls with a glow stick smiling. Her sister has glasses and in a white shirt]

“Micro joys are how we survive macro grief” -Glo Atanmo This year a big intention of mine is to welcome joy and play into my life. Not in a way to distract myself from the ongoing grief and atrocities in the world but to remind myself that I am also so deserving of the beauties in life as well. The past couple of years has been filled with immense grief (still is) and I was only to make it with through with the support from my loved ones. Thank you to all my friends and family who bring joy in my life in the smallest (and biggest of ways). I’m so grateful for the joys and griefs that keeps me alive and allows me to create. I don’t particularly believe “joy is resistance” anymore but I do believe that resistance needs joy and hope to survive. And I know this because I’m reminded of all the ways are ancestors access joy through the hardest of times. Whether it’s singing in the fields or sharing food with each other, joy is sacred. And I know the oppressors rather have us be sad and in despair, and I will never succumb to what they want. So this militant joy is a reclamation. A way to expand my capacity to create and resist. Some micro joys that has been prevalent this year is creating art and planting seeds with friends (literally and figuratively), weekend game nights with my niblings, connecting with old and new friends, eating good food, singing in the car, smelling lilacs, blowing dandelions, seeing ladybugs. What are micro joys that have been keeping you alive? ID in comments

Happy one year death anniversary, Mệ Ngoại 🫶🏼 Thank for visiting today at @theabolitiongarden 🥹🐞 Your love was/ is your biggest legacy. May I continue and grow that legacy/ love you left behind for generations to come. ❤️ [image description: a close up photo of a red lady bug on a mint colored denim jacket]

Hi y’all! 💖 We want to invite you to “Propaganda in the Park” on Saturday, April 11th, 5-7p at Ruby Hill Park! Come join @dystopiantimesmedia and @acab.baes for a chill creative gathering where we make propaganda, connect, talk strategy/ systems and organize! We will have art supplies but feel free to bring your own!! If you have any other access information, please don’t hesitate to reach out! We will also be gathering donations for JBS workers at this event! Over 3,800 workers up in Greeley are still on the picket line (now in their third week)!!! All the supplies will go to help fuel and feed them as they continue their fight to fair labor practices and wages ✊ Even if the JBS workers go back to work next week, any donations will still be helpful for the families as they try to find some stability again. Our homies at @alfrente_youth will help distribute the donations directly to the workers and their families! Diapers and wipes were a big need as well as snacks/ drinks. If you’re unable to come and still want to support, please share or donate to the supply and strike fund! Propaganda means nothing without praxis! We believe not only in dreaming new worlds together but taking actions to make that world possible ✨ ID in comments