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so.. Katy Perry has stolen my artwork and used it on her single cover - I was never contacted by her or anyone from her team or label Capitol Records. What’s more is that Katy has been selling my artwork as her own, as merchandise on her store , and through other outlets , as a $35 print. I’m shocked that they think it is acceptable to lift my work directly from my website and use it as they please without paying me or even contacting me. please share

I have a new chapbook out called why don’t we know each other ($15). [image descriptions: 1. queer khmer american woman with shoulder-length wavy hair standing atop Machu Picchu Mountain, clouds and the deep green Andes mountains behind her. 2. a grey-covered chapbook with the words why don’t we know each other by narinda heng face up over a cardboard box with approximately 50 other chapbooks lined up inside. 3. an image of a poem called we find: we are from different homelands, members of multiple diaspora– home, heart, ancestry we search for nourishment in old places and new resign ourselves to the reality that we will always have certain hollows in our bellies or our hearts for the sake of filling certain needs. we celebrate that however our tides may change, we find ways to ride the waves toward one another, and when we share space and time–however small, however brief– when we meet to laugh about the hurt, to embrace one another’s strength, to plan our future healing, we create home, we remember we belong]

#queer #qwoc #qwocart #paying my bills 15 dollars at a time #qwoc writer #khmer american #queer & khmer #queer & asian #SEAsian diaspora #asian american poetry #chapbook #poetry #cambodian american #woc voices #writers of color #poc writers

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Our New Year’s Resolution: To shut down immigrant prisons! #CloseImmigrantPrisons #HereToStay #SchoolsNotPrisons Artwork by #LexxValdez

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personal mantras, by year

2010 - “Fuck it.” 2011 - “Let it go.” 2012 - “Do what you are afraid to do.” 2013 - “You can have it all.” 2014 - “What are you waiting for?” <—- adopted today in a conversation with the lovely Ant.

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2015 - “Life’s too short to hurry.”

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2016 - “Hold fast to dreams.” Words taken from the famous Langston Hughes poem Dreams. What dreams am I holding onto? There are dreams that come and go, dreams that send their echoes from the past, so I made this my mantra for the year to remind myself to sort out which dreams deserve to be held onto. It is also a reminder to hold onto values, and to remember the why of the things I do. To remember the world I dream of making, for myself, for my intimate community, for the larger community.

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2017 - “Don’t panic. Make magic.” The last couple of months of 2016 have been intense and full of unhappy surprises, in politics and in my personal life. This is a reaction to that, and a call to action for myself. Can’t just hold onto the dreams; must do something with them. Make/magic.

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2018 - “What if you just try” Instead of focusing on all the reasons not to do something, all the reasons something won’t work out, all the reasons I might fail, I want to focus on the effort itself. To put in effort regardless of end result. In climbing, in clay, in writing.

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On September 27, between 9:00am and 10:30am, I lost my necklace at the rest area. It's Cambodian style pendant (I'm Cambodian), and was passed down to me from my grandmother. The pendant represents a

#help please #lost and found #khmer #cambodian #jewelry #necklace #gold necklace #echo canyon #road trip

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Catch me at the Bay Area Queer Zine Fest on Saturday!

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Louise Bourgeois

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On June 4th, 1972, Angela Davis was acquitted on charges of conspiracy, murder, and kidnapping by an all-white jury in San Jose, California. #BlackGirlMagic #BlackExcellence #BoyBye

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I believe in forgiveness in the way that I say I believe in forgiveness. Which is wholly, and without conditions. I believe no person is beyond repair, I also believe in forgiving the broken even while they are still broken. That’s not for show, that’s for myself, for God, and for peace. I wish us all a state of forgiving in a way that we may very well one day need to be forgiven.

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Bumble Butt! (Source: http://ift.tt/2qPb7hI)

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#ceramics #clay #instagram #pottery #vases #soda fired #cone 6 #cone 6 reduction #qwoc art #qtpoc artists

If you look closely, you'll see that the interior glaze on this cup curled away from the clay body. An error on my part, but not a mark against this cup. Some scars from our pasts are more visible than others. Follow #survivorloveletter today; it is a project initiated by the dear @taniikeda years ago to flood the internet with messages of love for survivors of sexual abuse. Dear survivors: I love you. I love you wherever you may be in your healing process, I love you in your anger, your grief, your guilt. I love you and believe you, whether you are quiet or loud about what you have been through. I love your self-love, I love your joy. I love you. . . [image of a soda-fired cup filled with uncooked rice which holds a stick of incense gifted to me by @amaze_me_grace.] • • • #pottery x #survivorloveletter #cremerging #sodafired #incense #asianamerican #qwocart #qtpocinclay #peopleofcolorpeopleofclay #burning #art #makers #madeinoakland