BIPOC Artists 4 Repro Justice AZ

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05/01/2023

We had an amazing time!!! Thank you Empower Alliance for the food!! ✊🏾

04/12/2023

Friday April 28th! Link to RSVP is in the bio! We will have free food and drinks! Bring the kids along as well! We are so excited to also be hosting a book signing for ✊🏾🌸 Mark your calendars fam! 🌈

04/10/2023

RSVP with us today!!

09/30/2022

Artist Highlight!
FreeJ (she/her)
Sculptor/Poet

I reside in Phoenix AZ, my family’s heritage to AZ goes far back. My background is complex mostly African Descent with Indigenous Ties to Tohono O’odham Community. My family culture is diverse “We Are Who We Are” On my Mother’s side- Spiritually Aware, Connected, Artistic, Independent, Free Spirited. The Revelationary is genetic, goes way back to my Great, Great, Great grandfather Willie O Quin who travelled west for freedom from TX to AZ. My Red Haired, Freckled Grandmother Lennie Mae was involved locally in AZ + CA in 1960’s racial liberation. My Mom says I carry her Birthmark + her Spirit. We were very close before she transformed (Passed Away).
I’ve harnessed their strength + wisdom.
I’ve also inherited our wounds.
It’s all interconnected.

I don’t have any Art Training past high school. I hope to go to school for Art because I believe in itself is a healing force. My hope in the Art I create is to show my path towards + perception of healing liberation, hopefully inspiring others towards their own. An inspirational Mantra I have is “I will be like the Lotus that rises out of murky waters. I will transform + build beautiful firm foundations out of the ashes.”

What moves me the most in Reproductive Justice is I feel we as a society have lost touch with the significance of feminine Energy. We all have access. Colonialist Ideologies have disconnected us from a very important + needed part of ourselves. Reproductive Justice Encompasses all aspects of justice for everyone to break toxic norms in our society + heal-nurture the wounds present. Being in reverent connection with the Feminine spirit is both beneficial + necessary for all humanity.

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Who sat with the altar during our event?! How powerful was this statue to behold?! Who heard FreeJ’s poem about healing in the reverent Feminine? Tell us about your experience ✨

09/23/2022

Artist Highlight:
✨Jah Knight (he/him)
with a Chinese Yo-Yo performance!

Born in South Central CA, I moved up + down the West Coast till I landed in AZ. I'm African American, and like most AA, my history is mostly unknown to me. But nevertheless, we took from our ancestors, created our own culture + history here. I am homosexual, and due to white supremacy culture in the States, I was looked down upon for expressing my own happiness. My mother was my shield. One thing my Mother told me was to never let anyone tell you what to do or how to act. She's big on 'My body My choice' and has never let anyone control her energy.

His RJ reflections in slides are in comments 💕

09/21/2022

Artist highlight:
Aída Esmeralda is a Salvi poet born & raised in the ancestral lands of the Manahoac, otherwise known as Woodbridge, Virginia. As a daughter of a diaspora displaced by war, her work mainly focuses on memory keeping/making and imagining/ examining body politics through a critical surrealist lens. She loves to imagine eating, cackling, and dancing cumbia with all her grandmothers. Easily enthused and constantly curious, she's working on becoming an amateur printmaker. Her practice is inspired by the work of Audre Lorde, Claribel Alegria, Aracelis Girmay, Audra Wolowiec, and Douglas Kearney, among many others.

My desire to create comes out of several things: a desire for survival, a desire for legacy, a desire for memory, for archive. As a person from a diaspora heavily controlled and manipulated by State censorship, my art is a means to disseminate information, logic, history, care. In my piece of art, I am exploring the surreal/strange sensation of being pregnant, of feeling invaded by a fetus you did not choose to create, of the mixed feelings of sincere curiosity and tenderness, but also fear and alienation from your own body. Right now, I'm most moved by the belief that abortion is a way to honor ancestors, a way to honor the possibility of life beyond creation, or that only centers creation.

IG: .e.campos
twitter: made these linoblock prints for the show!
Be ready 💸
3 DAYS until our Saturday Sept 24th event! Register at bit.ly/reproart

09/20/2022

Meet one of our performers! The ever illustrious with her first ever fashion show “Rise of the Matriarchy”👗will be at 630PM

Her book will also be for sale all night!
In this collection of poetry and short stories, Dominique Daye Hunter explores the histories, intergenerational and personal trauma, as well as the healing and resilience of the Afro-Indigenous diaspora.

THIS Saturday, September 24th .market / , PHX as a part of the Reproductive Justice Art Exhibition & Performance!🥳
🌹 Indoor fine art gallery + interactive activities + shops
🌹 An outdoor art market + food + performances!
🌹 Free entry. Simply register bit.ly/reproart
🌹 You’ll be able to place made-to-order purchases on select items!
🌹Comment below if you plan to attend!👇🏽🌹✊🏽🖤

09/18/2022

Spontaneous Sunday memes
Retrograde update
6 days!

09/11/2022

We changed the location to our September 24th event!
to the incredible hosts with the most
AFRI-Soul Marketplace + Grassrootz Books and Juice Bar

Register at bit.ly/reproart or through link in bio if you have not already. Registration helps us know the headcount for our caterer- The REZ an urban eatery LLC

Outside- captivating performances + RJ art market + food!
Inside- fine art gallery + reflective activities plus all the goods these shops have already!

We are so excited to share this event with you!
How excited are you?

Image description: [Black background surrounded by a gold frame shows a graphic depiction of a moon carrot flower grows atop the words reproductive justice / art exhibition and performance / September 24, 2022 530-8pm /1145 East Washington Street Phoenix AZ 85034 / Join Us to celebrate and discuss repro justice / support local artists. A bright red box encases bright red words in caps says location change.]

09/10/2022

Decriminalize street art!
in Russian prison is a reproductive justice issue!

08/27/2022

Coined by , a Black woman-led collective in 1994 “reproductive justice is the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.
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It is rooted in our experiences with and resistance to oppression. We have experienced forced pregnancy and childbearing, involuntary sterilization, restrictions to abortion and contraception, and policies and environments that endanger and take away our children. Reproductive justice captures the complexities of our lives as well as our activism. As a framework and a movement, it centers communities disproportionately impacted by oppression as well as uplifts our leadership and organizations. It is intersectional and it works to shift power (e.g., structures, policies, institutions).
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We believe in a world where all families have the resources to thrive in safe, healthy communities and where people who can become pregnant can make decisions about if, when and how to start a family. To achieve this vision, we must listen and learn from each other — especially in our communities of color, which are too often left out of movements for access to reproductive healthcare. We are calling on community members to build with us in liberatory ways. Join us September 24, 2022 !!

Images are of a running body of water- symbolizing abundance- and wild roses, a symbol of collective love.

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