WILDFLOWER

By sharing these experiences, we are speaking up about treatment that we are so often expected to tolerate, ignore, and remain silent about. After sharing my own experiences with toxic relationships, and recognizing the tremendous growth that took place during that process, this project has gradually evolved into this platform for others to share. The cathartic act of revealing the internalized in such a vulnerable way serves to heal the disparaging ways we communicate with one another.

I felt really weird at the start of today. Don’t want to get out of bed, processing so many emotions weird. I decided to deal with these feelings by skipping my class and making an e-zine. This is 45 pages of highly personal content, mostly new poems and graphics that I made in the past 5 hours. I have gone through so many emotions today. I am so tired! Here is the zine. I am charging $3 for it because I need to eat: https://payhip.com/b/FiQS

Jancie, Montreal, 2015  by Lora Mathis

The Conversation With Flowers pt. 4, Lora Mathis David, San Diego, 2015

"(more than) dust.” is a powerful photo book that explores abuse and gender inequality. Every statement is a quote that has been said to one of the participants of the project. We’re speaking up about treatment that hurts. Please help support this important project in the link above!

ANGELICA EKEKE - (more than) dust. Happy International Women’s Day! In light of this important day, I am releasing one of the completed photo sets from “(more than) dust.” So often are we expected to passively take direction. So often are we dismissed as being “too bossy” when we begin to assert ourselves and demonstrate qualities of leadership. So often are we told to act a certain way in order to appear attractive, silencing our will to have our individuality reflect our deepest selves and reducing us to  an object whose purpose is to be consumed. So often are we expected to tone ourselves down. So often are we expected to maintain modesty (or to stay silent) in the face of constant problematic treatment. So often are we expected to stop taking up so much space (seriously - manspreading is a thing). These expectations are magnified for women of color, whose marginalization and systemic oppression has impacted personal relations to the point of being told (whether consciously or unconsciously) to take up as little space as possible, unless it’s solely for the consumption of somebody else. Today, Angelica is speaking up. Angelica is taking up space. And it’s time we listen.

I Am Two Sides of The Same Coin, Lora Mathis Sometimes I can’t get out of bed, sometimes I feel like I could take on the world in a matter of hours. 

take a photo of yourself that you can hold in your hand on days that you feel like a ghost

Please help support the project and get the book at: kickstarter.com/projects/jamieoliveira/more-than-dust-a-feminist-photobook

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two layer woodcut and metal type letterpress printed on stonehenge paper. edition of 7.

handmade abaca and cotton paper with embedded cotton cloth.

Jamie Oliveira: Part 11/12 of my TNDRNSS series.

Jamie Oliveira: Part 6/12 of my TNDRNSS series.