







we’ve made a ritual outta
returning to lorde’s journals around this time of year
aligning an entry's date with the present
excerpts from a tattered
burst of light
written in 1985
a promise of light lorde gleaned decades ago at Lukas Klinik in Switzerland
isolated from her loved ones to tend to her healing
lorde reflects on loneliness, love and hope
yearning for a happiness that is innate within her
yet kept at bay by the reality of her health
a survivor’s testimony





WANNA READ LORDE'S JOURNAL ENTRY FROM NYE 1985 ?





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our Black-ass-freelance-artist-2022 overflowed with kinship, joy and adventure
but there was no magic
just grit, exhaustion and endless work
to dream of survival is to know the daily ritual of willing one’s self to hope
after reading lorde’s entry this year
we listened to Bob Marley’s
Three Little Birds
tears burning our nose



survival’s seed planted in gon' be’s soil



















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Photo x Greg Inda


Switch the Boi Wonder & Po’Chop looking like somebody’s uncles. Gazing defiantly into the camera. Photo x @greg_inda

Photo x Greg Inda









Photo x Ricardo E Adame at Chicago Dancemakers Forum ELEVATE Chicago Dance 2022

Photo x Ricardo E Adame at Chicago Dancemakers Forum ELEVATE Chicago Dance 2022





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