#Oscars #Diversity #Actress #FemaleDirector #LGBT Thanks 4 inquiries about my upcoming releases! As you may know, I set out a few years ago to make my Indie Feature Film and Full length album, which are ABOUT Diversity, AT my FIERCELY INDIE Upcycled, Recycled Sustainable, and Green Film and Music Studio ... which was built from SCRATCH with upcycled and recycled materials and which honors the Ocean environment on which it stands ... I wanted to MAKE my projects with a Diverse Team AND I wanted to be FREE from Corporate Overlords. It took me a sec, with a whole lotta help from my team, but I can proudly say, we ARE in our final stages of POST Production as the mostly edited film has been awaiting her music, and the album is damn near complete. This is the first of many in the pipeline of my now thriving FeMtO™StudiO ... I woke up a few thoughts about the Oscars controversy and ... those led me to meditate on a topic I've explored and will continue to explore as one of my personal challenges ... I was faced with this challenge very early on in life bc I knew that I was born to make art from the moment I became aware of my existence ... unfortunately, raising myself in abusive circumstances made these challenges far more challenging and I've been steadily climbing the hill for a long time now ... below, I'm including the essay we'll be posting today ... in hopes it may resonate ... and I'm sending out a big HUGG to my team and to all of YOU who are supporting my work ... it really means the world ... Indie Artists Are Endangered Species ©CaliLili™ Artist = #EndangeredSpecies #RacingXtinction #StartWith1Thing #Oscars ©Cali Lili™ Dear Friends It's no joke, Indie Artists, especially Females + Persons Of Color and or So Called "Alternative Cultural / Sexual Preference / Lifestyle / Gender Orientation" ARE an Endangered Species. Everybody knows the story of now famous painter Vincent VanGogh who lived in poverty, cut his own ear off in desperation, and who's paintings after death, made gazillions of cash, generating it's own industry. I'm advocating that our cultures directly keep artists working while we are alive. (ctd) #racingextinction #startwith1t