#whatgloryweare

#Ad shout outs to @kidsofimmigrants who are creating these necessary clothing spaces for us by us. And @nouswithoutyou an incredible LA organization supporting #migrant communities specially during this pandemic. They been feeding families, providing rent relief and employment opportunities. So grateful to lend my poetry for this badass collaboration between KIDS of IMMIGRANTS x BUCHANAN’S SCOTCH WHISKY . They created the “What Glory We Are” capsule, a line from my poem GLORY✨✨100% of proceeds of sales will be donated to @Nouswithoutyou to support the ongoing critical organization’s work in feeding LA immigrant communities.

They launched the line yesterday, and they still have items left!! Go purchase them on @kidsofimmigrants . Remember all proceeds go to @nouswithoutyou !!

#WhatGloryWeAre #BuchanansxKOI ❤️

Video credit:

Dir: @Davidcamarena
DP: Edward Tran
AC: @Aidanger
Photo: @bryanberry
Sound: @Life_Jedy
Edit: @moskitor
Sound Design: @andrewaud.io
Color: @coloristroy
Steadicam: @fostervisuals
@buchananswhisky #migration #papifemme #whatgloryweare #qtpoc #artist #art #nonbinary
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Had my last therapy session for the year and oooof……. ✨✨ all the love and tender to all of us breaking generational traumas and healing from so much hard shit. Healing is not linear, it be hard and goes in circles, it has us time traveling, and going under and above. What a journey we are on. Sending all the tender tender to folks reflecting of this past year. What glorious and brave and kind you are. Remember to have compassion for yourself, don’t fall in the pressure to measure a “successful year”. You did more than enough by just making it through this on going pandemic. to @18millionrising ( design by @ashluka ) for this sweater. It says “My elders taught me how to pray” tender and brave sentiment Im taking in for next year. #qtpoc #queer #migrant #indigenous #nonbinary #enby #artist #poet #papifemme #whatgloryweare (at California)
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✨wohoo! Finished my first semester of photography ✨ Studying photography has been my way of nurturing my creativity, and it has connected me deeper with my family’s old Polaroids and photographs ( specially of my grandparents). There is a deeper understanding of how those photographs were potentially shot, which then helps me imagine how my family may have been posing and moving around. As a migrant, I hold this close to my heart. Working from memory and photographs -we are able to keep our ancestors and “home” closer to us. As a #queer #nonbinary person photography has become a way to archive my chosen fam and time travel us into this reality. We exist in these tender ways. In these silly ways. Not in pain but in these soft and real ways. Shout outs to all my muses that helped me turn in my assignments. Y’all are the best models : @l_arely @adinasdoodles and LP. Shout outs to @bourbonandlittle who were the best in these homeworks!! Thank you LA for the amazing natural light. Shout outs to me for keeping on even when I was getting lost in white balance calculation and F-stops. Can’t wait for next semester!! #qtpoc #migration #photo #whatgloryweare #enby #papifemme (at Los Angeles, California)
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