#wegrow

Also, I did not know Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel (PayPal co-founder) teamed up to open alternative schools...

I've never gone to art school. My love of creating little drawings has been aided by watching my friends and maestrxs do their own work and asking them tons of questions. Now Instagram provides many learning opportunities to learn from others. Many young artists have posted pieces they have redrawn as a way to see their own progress and improvement of skill. They have inspired me to do the same. In 2008, I found a portrait of Hilda Reyes (taken in 1969), then a young member of the L.A. chapter of the Brown Berets looking forward with intensity and defiance. I loved the image because I had seen another snapshot of her profile where she was looking off into the distance but this one felt so much more powerful. She was clearly a poderosa. A year after the photo was taken, in 1970 Hilda left the Brown Berets because of the patriarchy present in the group and she a couple of other women started the Chicana feminist group Las Adelitas de Aztlán. They invited others to join this femme centered group with the following message on their flyer: Chicanas, find Yourself! Do you have a part in the Movement? Are your ideas suppressed? Come and CREATE your ideas! HELP CREATE Las Adelitas de Aztlán. #redrawn #thingschange #wechange #wegrow

2015 vs 2017 drawings. Trying to improve my craft and honor my people. Chicanx studies was born of the efforts activists, students and intellectuals that worked to draft El Plan de Santa Bárbara which laid out a plan for higher education. This organizing and manifesto emerged following the struggles of the third world Liberation Front (twLF) Student Strike at San Francisco State College and UC Berkeley in November 1968-March 1969 and January-March, 1969, respectively which resulted in the establishment of the first Ethnic Studies departments in the U.S. In my first year at community college, in 1995, I took my first Chicanx history class and learned about historical events never spoken of in my public school courses. I started to learn the names of the people who refused to accept the injustices inflicted on our communities by racist laws & policies as well as the people in power who wrote and enforced them. I began to learn more about organizers like Cesar Chavez, Reies Lopez Tijerina and Bert Corona and the movements they were instrumental in shaping and I immediately wanted to know more about the femmes whose stories were often eclipsed by the overinflated narratives about the men. It sent shivers down my spine to learn about Emma Tenayuca, Luisa Moreno and Josefina Fierro de Bright. #redrawn #thingschange #wechange #wegrow #chicanxstudies

#NobodyIsPerfect ... #WeLearn ... #WeGrow ... (at Subang Jaya) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTr7TEZPYGWoiqa9mecpbAQnOycc-y7noUg7t40/?utm_medium=tumblr

A little reminder.😃👍🏽💜 #floralart #wegrow #wegrowtogether #flowers #floraldrawing #bright #growth #selflove #goodvibes https://www.instagram.com/p/CTml4oggC8G/?utm_medium=tumblr

November Sydney Northern Beaches mail out all folded away & ready to roll. #november #michaelreidnorthernbeaches #wegrow https://www.instagram.com/p/CGeC2DIjcYB/?igshid=6gstzh6ofchi

#wedontgrow #nocrecemos #thingsareeasy #lascosassonfaciles #wegrow #crecemos #whenweface #cuandoenfrentamos #challenges #retos #goodmorning #buenosdias #begrateful #seagradecido #godisgood #diosesbueno #amen (at Orlando, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5Xk7pMl5nh/?igshid=gqhq0zupegho

Selalu lebih menyenangkan bicara dengan makhluk hidup selain manusia, tumbuhan terutama. Mereka lebih jujur dan apa adanya dibanding manusia yang bahkan sulit mengerti perasaannya sendiri.