Create Justice

My name is Coco. Student at Fairhaven College, Bellingham interested in the intersection of creativity, social justice, and education. My objective for this blog to create a community educational space exploring these disciplines. I want this to be a resource guide for myself, but also a place for others to share and hold me accountable.

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Dope 30 ft. tall, mural version of the #ItEndsHere poster put up at the Paint PHX event in Phoenix, AZ last weekend on International Women’s Day. Amazing work!

jaquefragua x greyeyesart rocking it. 

RISE and DECOLONIZE, y'all.

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Technological rugs

By combining traditional Azerbaijani rugs with modern technology glitches Baku-based artist Faig Ahmed has created an awesome ongoing series. 

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Im so angry

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ghostly-femme

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The bloom series continues

“I am not ready” A photo series portraying the emotional and physical false securities of merging from child to adult. 

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Just another day at the office #areyouyou

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A very brief interview with Nia King about When the White Man Gives You Money…

How did you get into making zines? What was the first zine you ever made? The first zine I remember reading was called Freewheel, I found it at the radical bookstore in Boston where I grew up, the Lucy Parsons Center. I remember reading it and thinking, I can do this! That’s how I got started.The first zine I wrote was called Angry Black-White Girl: Reflections on My Mixed Race Identity. It’s a personal zine about some of the uniquely weird experiences of growing up in New England as a white-passing black person (a black person that “looks” white). What was the inspiration for (or a story behind) the zine you contributed? I run a podcast called We Want the Airwaves where I interview queer and trans artists of color about their lives and their work. I recently turned several of the interviews into a book, titled Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives. The zine is some of my favorite excerpts from the book.

What are you working on (zine projects or otherwise) now? I’m still doing the podcast, and trying to find a way to get paid to write for more well-known publications. I would love to do a second volume of the book* and I already have enough interviews for it, but I’m hoping to get a book deal and an advance to do the second one. The first one was entirely crowdfunded and I am still exhausted.

Anything else you want to add? Independent media reaches its fullest potential when used as a platform for marginalized voices. Support queer and trans artists of color. Free Palestine.

When the White Man Gives You Money… was included in Womanzine Delivery Service’s first package. You can subscribe NOW to receive future quarterly packages of zines by women. Subscribe by May 25 to get the next package in July.  

You can buy Nia’s zines and book here and check out her tumblr niaking or her website.

*Nia is currently raising funds to publish the second volume of Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives. The first volume was AMAZING, and today is the last day to contribute, so get on it!  

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Alice Smeets: The Guetto Tarot

Welcome to the Ghetto Tarot, a project from award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists known as Atis Rezistans. The idea was to take the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck of 78 cards and create a photographic version of each card using settings and objects in the vibrant ghetto of Haiti.

As Smeets says, “The spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists ‘Atiz Rezistans’ use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word ‘Ghetto,’ thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.”

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Question for police. Baltimore.

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Washing Lines with Sense exhibited at Creative Bubble. 

R. Irwin- The Complete Collection

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These amazing artists engage people on the streets of NYC to imprint part of the city with clay. I've been processing how this could potentially be apples to theorizing around queerness, memory, and chosen family. If you would like to dialogue more about my ideas or this article. Send me a message.

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"In his exhibition, Crossing the Farther Shore, acclaimed Vietnamese American artist Dinh Q. Lê presents thousands of photographs of Southern Vietnam taken before and during the Vietnam War. Lê considers these images as an important document of Southern Vietnam that has escaped the Northern Vietnamese Communist government’s systematic effort to erase the pre-1975 existence of the South. The photographs also serve as a counter narrative to the images the world saw of Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The hand-stitched structures allude to the mosquito nets under which people sleep in Vietnam, creating what Lê calls a “sleeping, dreaming memory of Vietnam.” On view at Rice Gallery April 10 - August 28, 2014. Original score by Mark Walley."

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Carlos Martiel

Silent Prayer  Steve Sturner Contemporary, LA, EE. UU.

Nylon strings stitched to my torso tied me to the walls of the gallery, on each one hangs a silver bell. The involuntary movements of my body activate the sound of these, creating a harmonious concert.

Curated by Edna Sandoval Photo: Don Lewis