I am energized by the duality of storytelling & creation.
I made these months ago.....now feel compelled to ๐๐ all proceeds {after shipping} go to @blackresiliencefund ‘s Juneteenth event. It’s crazy to imagine THE DAY on which your bondage and the bondage and suffering and murders of your ancestors came to an End—or at least the news of liberation started to spread slowly (Texas was the most remote slave state, by far and still is the largest state (in area) was the last to get the news). What about THE person who was the Final to be freed? What does it mean when A surviving single story has to be a placeholder for thousands fallen away.... It must have been(be) so intense on any and all levels—people in instant liberation โค๏ธ Jubilee Liberation freedom dignity humanity requires cemented celebration and learning and commitment to memory. Liberation is one way to ascend and a clear sign of healing. If my living Japanese American family got $20,000 each in 1988 <Yes, Regan> for being imprisoned w/o charge (WWII Internment) 45 years after the 4-year false imprisonment happened & if this country can build WORLD ๐ class museums and put literally millions into education curriculums art film and support for Holocaust Remembrance Day events, then the US needs to step it the EFF โค๏ธ๐ญ๐ค๐๐ค๐พ up and officially recognize acknowledge w an authentic national apology for human atrocities compensate support fund affirm protect educate around June 19th according to what people say they want. No, will never “be enough.” accept that and do your best. it doesn’t take just one thing. You need it all. Give it a Day. ๐๐๐ค๐พ๐๐ฝ๐ฆ๐น๐ค๐๐๐ถ๐ฅบ๐ญ๐ญ ๐
When you are reminded of how much it hurts โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ, Remember that pretty much ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฅบ๐๐ฅบ๐ฅบ๐ฅบanything that connects with the core of our being ๐ฅบ๐ง ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฝ๐ is also helping us heal, Wounds are fundamentally worse in a dark room even if the prize rose ๐น ๐ arises from the garbage Anything has tool potentiality
๐ ๐ธโ๏ธ๐ฌ quartz, brass, brass wire, a lil turquoise pendants๐$25 each & ๐ฏ of proceeds after shipping to @blackresiliencefund. #crystals #crystalhealing #brass #tube #wire #sayhername #justice #justiceforbreonnataylor #justiceforgeorgefloyd #healing
The world it a mess. It’s always been a mess. It’s also a Monday evening right before summer solstice ๐ & I’m fucking alive ๐ค๐พ #purifiedchampion #josephcampbell #queenofwands #sunflower
Shout out to the anniversary of #lovingday. beautiful things happen when folks from disparate places meet and โค๏ธ๐ค #hapas and #mixedrace and #mestizos etc etc are ๐๐ฉ๐ปโญ๏ธโค๏ธ๐๐ shout out to my great grandparents from ๐ต๐ฑ and ๐ฏ๐ต circa 1900. ๐๐พ๐๐ฝ and my ๐๐งฉ๐๐งฉ Ma and Da! “Seeing color” and still supporting fully without its consideration just on human level are not mutually exclusive. ๐งฌ๐งฌ๐งฌ๐งฌ๐งฌ๐งฌ๐๐๐งฉ๐งฉ Segregation enforced laws and did violence against any indication of love between races of any kind was Nearly eliminated bc they didn’t want ๐ค and ๐ค to learn and love not hate and fear๐ฃ๐ฃ therefore, ergo, one reason why it took so long to legally affirm interracial marriage (love, not abuse!) was BECAUSE it was known the children (sadly treated poorly/internalized shame/social stigma) would be THE Ambassadors and the mix of water and dust alike (you need both!) to make the CEMENT to build a new society ! #hapapride #hapasforblacklivesmatter
What does this look like sound like feel like for folks right now?? This is a book cover by editors Bailey and Brake. Haven’t read it yet but can we also talk about that FONT ?!? ๐คโค๏ธ๐คโค๏ธ๐ค๐งฎAlso social work history is......very interesting from its modern formation in 1868 London to its use of mostly but not all urban middle class educated wyt women ๐ง๐ปโ๏ธ๐ต๐ป๐ฑ๐พโ๏ธ who ultimately were cogs in sub-systems that caused fucking all kinds of trauma and pain to BIPOC and families etc. and was knowingly or not complicit in actually having to hold up, feed in to, ๐ฅand syphon off of the ACTUAL TEAT ๐ถ๐ผ ๐ผ of larger capitalistic structure w white men๐คต๐ผ๐
๐ผ๐คด๐ป running the show while assaulting the Earth ๐ women immigrants poor landless genocide survivors dark skinned folks queer mentally ill disabled etc etc etc. Sad !!! Bless!!! ๐๐ฆAs of next Monday I will no longer be sharing my gift or education or skills nor taking wages or positions at organizations that do not expressly endorse and integrate meaningful change and actually follow through instead of buzzwords for your company FB or to get grant $$& from the #nonprofitindustrialcomplex๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ . I will only work with people on my side and have a significant amount of them inhabit the identities of the people who have been Treated The Worst ๐ ๐ and share common sense humanistic values and most of all....SHOW it ! ๐๐งฌI will only work places or ppl that are BIPOC queer and “ism” owned w a shared power structure and that are Co led by 50% POC and be part of a ๐ก๐ก๐ฆfucking UNION ๐งฟ๐ฎ. I demand an anti oppressive supervisor! I have no fucking time energy or fucks for anyplace complicit or simply mediocre anymore โฉ๐LET THE NEW LEADERS RISE โค๏ธ๐๐๐งก I will process my complicity and ๐งฌ ๐ I call myself out for my place in the system of social work in the United States in 2020 and all events from the last uh....#400years ?!? ๐ฆ๐ฆ The work and love ๐ of Black trans poor queer social workers have brought about the biggest gains ๐๐ฟโ๏ธ๐ and social progress๐ฆif you are a healer servant teacher student artist lover poet and helper of any sort YOU and WE deserve better! more social work historical fun facts to come.....#themoreyouknow #fonts #socialwork
“......then you would never again doubt your magic.” ๐๐ธ๐ปโญ๏ธ๐โ๐ฝโ๐ฟ๐งถโโ๐ป๐ค๐พ๐ถโ๏ธโค๏ธ๐๐ปโ๏ธ๐ป
Feeling good this original #goddessenergy #print resonates with folks! โญ๏ธโค๏ธโ๐ฟโ๐ฝโโ๐ป if you were outbid before here’s another for auction ! All Proceeds for this 8x10 print go to @blackresiliencefund ๐ป๐ธ๐check em out. Ends midnight Friday 6/12. Starting bid $20 ๐๐ปโ๏ธ #nofilter #saytheirnames #sayhername #sayhisname #healtogether #healwomen #healearth #art #portland #blackink #blackandwhite #illustration #illustrator #adobe #chevron #socialjustice
Fetch now, if you can, new tools.
Or perhaps sharpening & shining, rediscovering your kit from the attic is more befitting? Whatever your implement: blow off old dust, polish away long-obscuring rust. If the tool works for you, then use that tool. We need it all; your finest proclivity, your healing humanity. ๐ญ๐๐ปโ๏ธ๐โค๏ธ๐โ๐ฟโ๐ฝโโ๐ป