joy is resistance

new book! @omkari_williams’ Micro Activism is now available.

this book was a pleasure to work on last year and i’m honored to use my art for something bigger. i love this book not just because of the art itself but the message. activism

resilience • abundance • growth

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get this sticker via patre0n!
link in bio 💛

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#procreate #procreateart #artistsoninstagram #illustration #illus #blackillustrators #blackart #womenwhodraw #blackgirlsillustrate

bell hooks said “rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. healing is an of communion”

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#procreate #procreateart #artistsoninstagram #illustration #illus #blackillustrators #blackart #womenwhodraw #bellhooks #commun

Harvest and healing is the theme of this month. Excited to use handmade paper from @kelseypikepapercraft this month for the bloom block print club!

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This art club helps support myself as an arti

whose world is this! this world is yours. it’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mine.

i will be introducing my #kidlitart as i embark on my #childrensillustration journey. shouting out my agent @jmcgowanbks at @bookends_literary for all the

felt cute, won’t delete. hi i’m octavia. i love eggs. one of my love languages is receiving egg related gifts 🍳 please feel free to tag me in egg related anything in this app. thank you. now back to your regularly scheduled reels and con

trust your grit 🦪

i love to try different mediums, avenues or just different ways of thinking and using my art. very proud of my block print patch for my patrons this month. i’m in love. i’m inspired by my own work. i know it’s re

🕰️late af, august

1. gorgeous greens
2. 32 years on this little blue rock
3. CYO 🍅
4. DEFEND TRANS FUTURES | shirt: @transfigureprintco
5. future goat mom
6. s/o to @the.dreamgoats | support your local baby goats + support the youth 🐐
7. mom

a love letter to your crown and mine:
Oh those curls
How they twist and turn
How they stretch and yearn
Be proud of those curls
Those kinks, the coils
From roots to soils
They grow so effortlessly, reaching for the sun
Feeling Weightless, compa

fred hampton said we don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. what we mean by that is culture that will free you.

sorry y’all | NOT FOR SALE | client work
but working on more prints like these in the future for my own shop w

zora neale hurston said no, i do not weep at the world— i am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

zora inspiring me this month as i hit one year in patreon. that space has helped me open up, share what i thought would be unsharable and embarr

senses - this place, this planet can be so overwhelming by our own doing and it’s important to breathe. whatever you’re going through, you’ll get through it. everything ebbs and flows and then the glow returns
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#procreate #p

$PSA for my fellow four eyed friends 👓 i think @warbyparker has the best cleaning cloths ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ won’t lie…sometimes i’m amazed at how much my glasses protect me from my own eyelashes and dust 😭 .. .. .. #procreate$

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Land Acknowledgement
We are on land that was stolen from those indigenous to Mishigami (great water) ; originally home to people of the Three Fires - the Odawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi. I would like to pay respects to the nineteen Odawa chiefs who once governed the lands along the Grand River, in and around what is now the city of Grand Rapids.