#disrupthopelessness Lately I've been so inspired by some amazing women who we've been so lucky to work with. Mama Sharon Bailey, Mama Gwen Woods, Mama Roshumba Africa, and Mama Myra Jones: They are exceptional women who have experienced losing their sons to gun violence, some intercommunal, one by SF police. These mothers are so fuckin powerful because, in the midst of losing someone they carried for 9 months, birthed, watched turn into a toddler, a young child, a teenager and then an adult -- they still reaming hopeful. They still keep pushing. They convert their pain into passion in a way that not only benefits them and allows them to find hope in the smallest of synchronicities, but in a way that allows them to use their passion as a driving force to uphold their families, their communities and this entire world. Tomorrow @ 7pm at the Brickhouse Gallery in Oak Park, Sacramento, we are honoring our mothers, we are listening to their stories and we are immersing ourselves in the type of artistic narratives that will #disrupthopelessness. It would be absolutely amazing if you all could make it and even bring your beautiful babies and/or share the word. I think it can be hard to pick up after any kind of devastation, but when we have a community of people we can be vulnerable with, when we can hold each other together and be there for one another, then that allows of us to find true heal together. There will be healing performances by Sol Development and Mino Yanci. It would be an honor to have you all there. Link in bio. Please RSVP. (at The Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex / OFFICIAL)
