If you're wondering why I haven't been around much, surprise! | live in South Minneapolis where things have been pretty bad. BUT my South Minneapolis friends and neighbors have been wonderful. I love my neighborhood and my city. We keep us safe.
For Minnesota residents, Defend612 has some great resources in the links.
ALSO if you're a cartoonist or a comics person, I invite you to journal your experience of how ICE has impacted your life with your own four-panel comics! I'd love to connect with you.
Image description: A four panel comic in shades of blue. (Continues after break)
Panel text: "My phone is a window into the horrors of occupation. // struggle to find the line between witnessing and doomscrolling. / So am playing a lot of Tetris." Panel image: a blue grid on a white background.
Panel text: played Tetris after watching the footage of Renee Good's murder from three angles. week later, paused a livestream on my phone of ICE agents in North about a mile away from my house. could see pops of light, clouds of tear gas illuminated by flashbangs, from my bedroom window. / played Tetris before going to bed. Two days later was in a virtual meeting when the shouts & car homs started. ICE was raiding the gas station on my corner. got my whistle. |played Tetris, my ears still ringing." Panel image: three different Tetris pieces serve as text boxes, with several more in the background.
Panel text: "For the last few decades scientists have studied how playing Tetris can influence traumatic memories. / The research is still young & inconclusive, but it suggests that playing Tetris shortly after experiencing a traumatic event might reduce the lasting negative effects. For me, it has been grounding to play whenever feel my anxiety start to shut me down, even if the science turns out to be flawed and there are no long term benefits. / That said..." Panel image: a Tetris piece aligns with an open slot on an in-progress Tetris board. Panel text: know ICE wants me to live in terror as they harass, abduct, and murder my neighbors and threaten my family. / So, I've been playing a lot of Tetris because want to believe that any attempt at selfcare in the face of fascism is an act of hope. / It's choosing to fight back against despair, one line at a time" Panel image: the Tetris piece thunks into place, completing a row, which then cracks apart like ice cubes. Large text at the bottom overlaid on more ice fragments reads "ABOLISHICE"
anti-ice artwork I made for as a submission to @bmoreartistsagainstapartheid over on insta. they're hosting a fundraiser and art show where proceeds are donated from sales, hopefully they accept!
