No artist creates alone. We are all inspired by others. Through their work, these people and organizations show me how to scream for a freer world, how to exhale tenderness through storms, and how to flow in community with both the Earth and all life that shares in the Earth’s abundance.
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” —Assata Shakur
Solidarity & Luminaries
- Sophia Terazawa: “I am calling for treason.”
- Angel Faz: Hears soul of land and waters. Art across disciplines for new tomorrows. They exist in more places & ways than you’ll ever know.
- Jess Garland: Where harp meets revolution at sunset. Community arts organizing leader. Teaches children how to blossom through sound.
- mónica teresa ortiz: “What if instead of putting faith in elections we just believed in each other?” Also: “Outside of direct action, it is also in language that I find the opportunity to engage in a future-oriented creation that allows for ways to imagine a vastly different world. I believe I can do this best through challenging the places where we are.” Documents climate collapse through relationship to place & lineages
- Sasha Banks: “the spit upon this/country’s flag is mine and/I do/not weep at it” Also, this.
- Carol Zou: Builds art out of relationships & community: “I believe that the movement for collective liberation needs me and needs you and needs the vital connections that we build and maintain amongst ourselves.”
- Destiny Hemphill: “this is what we know: that when it is not easy, this makes it even more necessary to be sweet with each other, even more necessary to dream with each other so we find a patch of earth that has soil. lie down. fingers interlaced like mycelium.”
- Melania Luisa Marte “want to feel that bliss of a future freedom. maybe want some justice. maybe we want more than the ringing in our ears when our ancestors grieve of another lynching. maybe we want more than the active exhaustion of proving why we deserve to exist. maybe we want to die and not be martyred.”
- Ariana Brown: “Countries kill everyone you love and everyone else too—foreign and domestic.”
- KB Brookins: “They pillage the city like they pillage the trees: up to make new boutiques & coffee shops.”
- Ross Gay: Black man in the garden writing joy
- Camille Dungy: In Captain Planet, Gaia was a Black woman. Go read this poem.
- Roger Reeves invites us to engage in “world-building within the wound.”
Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi 