#sakrafka

Hey just a little update on what's coming in the next few months! For a short version, you can read the bold text only!

I'm currently finishing university, I'm super busy with my thesis and making my diploma portfolio (my thesis is about the representation of trans people in media btw! Unfortunately it's in Hungarian but google translate translates it pretty well)! My thesis defense is on June 18th and I'm very excited, even though no one will really read it since... it's in Hungarian. I worked so hard on it, it's over 30 pages and it came out so well :-(

Since university is ending, me and my partner (@/lonipacs) are moving out of college where we've been living in the past 4 years. Some of you who have been following me for a while might know that my girlfriend is homeless, since she was abused and had to escape from home (her father almost killed her and her family multiple times and threatened/phisically abused them daily) and she's been living in college full-time and has nowhere else to go. Now we have no choice but to move, but we don't have money at all for rent/food/bills etc. because we couldn't work in the past 1,5 years due to intership/university shit + both of us being chronically ill. Me and my partner together maybe about 700 USD which isn't even enough for one month's rent, so we will have to work extremely hard from July to keep the roof over our heads.

I know I haven't been very active lately on social media, but from July/August I'll officially start working as a full-time freelancer, and I'll be extremely grateful for any kind of support on my work! I'll focus all my energy on posting, shop opening and commissions! I'm very afraid that I won't be able to make a living from my art alone, especially in a country with the highest taxes and inflation :"-) The thought genuinely keeps me up at night, even more so since we don't have a "safety net" we can fall into if anything goes wrong (luckily we have some very good close friends who said we can sleep at their places in case we lose our home, if the worst happens). I wish I could have a "real job" but as a disabled/chronically ill person, I genuinely have no choice but to try make a living from my social media.

I'm genuinely shitting my pants, every day feels extremely stressful, full of tears, anxiety and sleeplessness, but I'm trying to stay positive! I feel extremely grateful for each and one of you who ever supported my work with a purchase, comment or like! I know it's very hard to build up an art account nowadays (not to mention the cost of living has been rising everywhere, and art is a luxury that only a few can afford), and I feel privileged to be in a place where I've already managed to build such a kind and supportive audience!