lately <3
A few things to note:
- Pop out to print isnt dead tomorrow April 24th
- Look at my new favorite boots
- Face and hair EATINGGG
- Experienced my favorite local show of the year thus far with @fortyworldwide
- Survivor audition is filmed but not yet submitted (the file was too big)
- love that rooftop it's so peaceful up there
- Activating spaces for community use is so freaking cool and I'm so excited for plaza Borinquen
- Doing cool creative things with @guerrilla.mag and my partner in crime @tatiana.white
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can you meet me halfway to the afty? 🫶🏽💿 come party with us this Friday from 10-2 at the Print Isn’t Dead after party! $15 off your ticket if you come to our Print Isn’t Dead event during the day from 6-9 PM 🤍
shot by @kobk617
effects by @kobk617
edited by @vradiate
models @vradiate@tatiana.white
shot at @clubhouse.bos
In the words of Assata Shakur, who we are mourning, but will ensure lives on through every single one of us:
IT IS OUR DUTY TO FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM
IT IS OUR DUTY TO WIN
WE MUST LOVE AND PROTECT EACH OTHER
WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS
I remember when people would ask me what i thought the apocalypse would look like they’d laugh or just be super skeptical when i told them it’ll probably just be a military take over and soon enough we’ll have military tanks driving down our streets. i hope yall see we’re actually not too far off from there as we see many black people and immigrants get abducted in Chicago and the national guard being called to so many cities.
maybe it was too hard for some to acknowledge because that would also mean acknowledging that so many other countries have been facing their own apocalypse for decades at the hand of u.s. imperialism. or that black neighborhoods with the perpetual police presence and over policing feel bits of it everyday and act as the training ground for what’s to come.
The best thing we can do in these moment is dream and prep for survival instead of expecting doom. so if you’d like to prep for your and your communities militant survival with me i welcome you with open arms.
i’m happy to share what i put in my emergency bag which you already have access to if you own a copy of @guerrilla.mag .
i’m also exploring getting my gun license this year, join me on that journey.
as always mutual aid is how we take care of each other. join a food or resource distribution group near you or start one yourself!
If you’re an artist we need you now more than ever!
“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible” — Toni Cade Bambara
Thank you to my friends, family and community who continue to nourish me and protect me !
I can Imagine a future where it’s safe outside! where we can go out to play!
“let’s work together my friend so we can play in the storm!” - @lovexrageofficial
summer! you will always be loved! grateful for the memories, see ya next timeeeee
skirt by me! reworked @clothesbytomo top by me!
haven’t written a monologue in while so here ya go:
This year i claimed the title of an artist! I let go of the fear and the anxiety and i chose to just create, not for anyone else, and for no other purpose other than to create and before i knew it i got a lot of shit done. it took trusting my vision, giving myself grace and telling myself it was okay not to get it right on the first try. it feels so stupid that it took me this long but i’m just glad that i am here, that i can cultivate this further, that i finally see in me what others have named and could already see! i just needed to believe in myself to know no matter what my art always has a place, even if it’s only with me. i love all of you who have encouraged me over the years, those who called me an artist before i could say it myself, you gave me the courage to take a leap. thank you to my baby who invested in what i considered to be a wild childish dream, and bought me my first ever sewing machine.
i’ve shared this quote many times and i’ll share it a million times more, “the role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.” For years i’ve shared his quote and done my best to embody it, even as i distanced myself from the tile of artist, and surrounded myself with the artists that inspired revolutionary action in me. Now that i’ve arrived, that i’m here, that i own this as a duty of mine as an artist myself, it’s time to take it to another level!
