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Taqueria las Cuatro Milpas

Posted on September 20, 2019

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What We Feed Ourselves (paintings)

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#abolishthepolice #defundMPD #asians4blacklives #georgefloyd @jacobfrey1 @cityofminneapolis @lisabendermpls . 1: animation by me for @reclaimtheblock in 2018. @jacobfrey1 no more money for police! . 2: animation by me for @reclaimtheblock. Fund Communities, not Cops. . 3: Tweet by hari kondabolu with an image of officer Tou Thao standing accomplice to George Floyd's murder. "this image literally & metaphorically depicts how we asians reinforce anti-black racism & systemic white supremacy." . 4: illustration by @perfectchai feat a south asian woman holding a sign that says "asians 4 black lives" . 5: Tweet by @g.p.jacob about how the MPD has never been held accountable for a legacy of murders. "we knew they would murder again Jacob frey and the City Council still insisted on giving them multi-million dollar budget increases year after year" . 6: Illustruation by @lane.e.art , a black and white drawing of Mayor Jacob Frey pouring money into a policeman's mouth . 7: a screenshot of a powerful FB post by Rep @gomez_aisha. She shares a powerful vision for longterm police abolition, and how piece by piece, we can replace the function of the policing system. DM for full text if you need. . 8: IG post by @ohdionne. Minneapolis Cities & Counties paid over $60.8M in police misconduct cases from 2007-2017. The MPD kills Black Minnesotans at a 13x rate that of White Minnesotans. . 9: A graphic showing the difference between overt and covert white supremacy. Lots of the bottom is coded language. White supremacy is the basis of this country, so you don't need to INTENTIONALLY be racist to be racist, it's in the water. I grew up with and internalized many many anti-black and white supremacist beliefs that I am still trying to pull out of myself. . 10: Tweet from Marc Lamont Hill about the Central Park Karen situation: "We cannot buy into the 'perfect victim' narratives circulating Christian Cooper...We should not have to be 'extraordinary' to avoid being killed by the state."
🌱🌱🌱THE GROWBOOK IS HERE!! 🌱🌱🌱 . Download (no cost) at bit.ly/Growbook (case sensitive) link also in bioooo . ☀️The Growbook is a free activity packet that collects and shares the individual’s brilliance and dreams with their Pod to illuminate critical connections & co-create new worlds. You can fill out the Growbook with Pods of up to five people! . ☀️I was honored to contribute illustration and ideas to this project masterminded & helmed by @tori.hong. We based a lot of our concepts on work by @mia.mingus and the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, Deepa Iyer's Roles in Social Change Ecosystems, work by Grace Lee Boggs, teachings of stewardship from the Iroquois people, and general wisdom from the organizing communities we've been a part of. . ☀️Many thanks to @picklewitch @kristilin24 for proofing and giving us initial feedback, and our sibs Kristi, @jami_lin, and @notyourtypical______ for podding up and doing our Test Round! Also @springboardarts and @caalmn microgrants for funding Tori!! . ☀️PLEASE DOWNLOAD, SHARE, FILL OUT, AND DISSEMINATE! Tori wrote a **curriculum** on how to use the Growbook on the website! If you want to share on social, please use #Growbook and tag Tori & I so we can track and follow along! . img descriptions: 1: Black and white illustrations framed in a teal watercolor background: "The Growbook. Free activity packet for #podbonding and #selfgrowth from Tori Hong and Cori Nakamura Lin. Free Download: bit.ly/Growbook. 2: Growbook pages, framed in teal watercolor washes. The illustrations contain scenes of paj ntaub, rams battling each other, garden scene, and clouds. 3: Screenshot from the Growbooks website! Full text on website 4: Screen shot of the About section of the website, written by Tori! Explains basically how all of her artwork stems from middle school 😂 #neopets. Full text on website! 5: printed pages from the growbooks, scattered on my mom's front lawn. 6: Picture of the Boundaries & Self-Accountability page, filled out in a variety of ways by the Hong/Lin sibs. 7: Photo of the Ancestral Wisdom & Woes page, filled out by the Hong/Lin sibs. Illustration features a Korean incense burner.
@ asians. . ...esp Japanese americans! @jami_lin's newest @catapult column. I got to talk to her about a lot of this, recontextualizing our experiences growing up as post-internment upper-middle class east asians, and how we have the ability to make choices now that our ancestors couldn't. . Obvs, Asians come from all dif backgrounds and experiences (read the piece) but America doesn't see us that way (read the piece!) Link in bio 🐉 . imgs: - Quote from jami's article, set in black text on a white background, with a single band of dark teal and blue illustration as decoration. The quote says "when we build our house on whiteness, we build our house on sand. And the tide will always come in." img: screenshot of the catapult article. Full text link in bio. img 3-4: Quotes from the article on a white image with a single band of illustration on each photo. In these illustration slices you can see a teal, whiskered dragon with a red eye peeking in.
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