Tiana Fan Art By Gigi28

Blooming Different

Dreams are glimpses of possibilities. You can live the impossible and the improbable, if you dismantle the restrictions that the waking world has bond to your existential thinking.

Nova Rose Greene

Me when I finally step foot on the motherland

It’s crazy

All this awareness is incredible

And I love that education is being pushed

But it’s also triggering

For some reason I feel like I want to share this information

But I don’t want to be an advocate because it feels like I’m advocating myself as a victim

as a person who has a storie

As a survivor

The awareness of sexual assault is triggering

I want to help someone

And yet I don’t want to advertise that I can help because I’ve had my own experiences too

I don’t want you to wonder about me

I don’t want you to ask me questions

I’ve been trying to figure out how to heal on my own

Sometimes if I need to I talk about it

Sometimes if I’m the confidant , then I’ll share my experience for the both of us to find peace

But idky posting a flyer is nerve racking

Idky having my art be apart of an awareness exhibition is odd

My art came from a place of pain

My art is therapeutic

And I took a chance to submit my piece and now that I’ve been selected

I feel weird

I was assaulted numerous times by numerous people and I still don’t know how to talk about it

I’ve recently discovered that sometimes the art I make resembles artwork of other survivors

Why does pain look the same

How can I not explain my feelings but my art can

And why does displaying my art feel like I’m displaying my trauma and asking people to be proud of me ? Or to analyze ? And ask questions??

Idky this gives me so much panic

It feels paradoxical

I feel trapped all over again

I want to help

I don’t want this to happen to anyone else

Ever

But I also don’t want to talk about it publicly

Idk how

“Go Away”

I was not having the best day

So I called my mom on Facebook messenger

Because I knew I wanted to see her

And she talked me up with filters

🖤🤟🏾🖤

Glad we’re getting there.

“A real man raises his voice against women and children abuse and not his hand on them”

—

Mzilikazi wa Afrika‏@IamMzilikazi

Do you feel me?

Do you see me?

I know you see me

But can you feel me?

What do you see?

What do you feel?

Does it match what I see?

What I feel?

Can you see what I feel?

Do I exude?

Do I absorb?

Do I reflect?

what if ..

Can you feel me?

“Modern Degenerate”

A Collaboration with Cass Meehan & Rose Slavin

Black

Native

Queer

Woman

Non-binary

Artist

Activist

Humans

Breathing

Living

Humans

Who’s voices will never be silenced

Who’s art will not be controlled

Who’s feelings will never be censored

Who’s creativity will roam and explore

Live and breathe

On its own

In this world

The modern degenerate

The outcast

The dream