🧠🦋so happy to share one of my FAVE collaborations ever 👛🐬 @_viviveronica_ wrote a casual manifesto that I had the pleasure of illustrating for @bitchmedia and I’m so proud of us 🌸💎 for this one we tried to come up with a visual language that would combine everyday symbols of her and her friends/fam/loves and place them in the web of the fractal multiverse 🌷💦 check out the in print version in the Ghosts issue of bitch magazine 💖💙 https://www.instagram.com/p/BnCbC2NlIif/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wwggorar1l4p
Image transcription:
As long as I remember her, she will never die.
We Are All Elders - written by Vivi Veronica, illustrated by Syan Rose
Trans women survive, love, & exist because of the knowledge we pass down. She’s my sister, she’s dead & alive. She’s my auntie. My mother. Me.
She taught me how to move my face, how to change everything with makeup, how to move my body in motions that felt so natural. Even my eyes move differently because of her. She taught me that
fear & courage often look the same. How sitting with uncertainty is necessary even if it’s painful.
I feel her in every part of my body - even the parts I hate - because I know her pain & she knows mine.
All the trans-feminine bodies & spirits I’ve known continue to teach me. Not all of my sisters are still alive, but their wisdom impacts the footsteps of those still here. I feel our energies molding & shaping to change with each other.
This web of consciousness is so vast. I feel the ripples of the universe fall down like rain upon me, & as the rain touches me, my body becomes the rain & washes me away into the vastness of the web. I feel your spirits as these ripples & I know you are feeling me too. Together across the dimensions we unite. We are all one, we are all each other, & we are all the wisdom of our sisters, our elders, our selves. One day I decided my body was not a tragedy.
On that day I knew I would live forever.
