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A gift i made for @captainshyguy a while ago!

Digital art piece for @captainshyguy of his ocs Avery and Wizard!

I love love LOVE these two goobers, getting to do gift art of 'em was a delight! I can't wait to see their comic :D

Two sisters, Salamishah and Scheherazade Tillet, have been fighting for decades to end violence against black women and girls.

In 2003, the sisters founded A Long Walk Home (ALWH), a national organization based in Chicago that trains black girls and women to become artists and activists against violence to women and girls — whether it be police violence, sexual assault or domestic violence.

“A lot of institutions and systems require black women to suffer silently to maintain themselves,” said Salamishah, 44, a co-founder of ALWH. “The requirement that black girls and black women have to suffer silently as a part of being a member of the community, as part of being an American citizen, it’s such an expectation ... and we then take that on, and there’s so many repercussions, like healthwise, to our silence.”

The organization’s first tool is healing, and then organizing. With the pandemic, and then the uprisings, a main focus for the Tillet sisters has been the wellness of the young women in the organization.

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our world (reprise)

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