Bloom.yvr

Community-based zine centering QTBIPOC voices on race and gender expression ✨

06/27/2022

bloom zine collective - issue #002 harm reduction + healing

🌿"RANGREZA" by Areeka
she/her

"I write a lot about trauma, q***rness, survivorship, and spirituality. I've struggled with substance abuse issues in the past, and recovery took on new meanings in the pandemic. When I’m not dreaming about abolitionist futures that address root causes of trauma, the work I do is with the aim of being of aid to any and all survivors, and any who seek substances or are engaged in lifelong struggles of coping with the impossibility of trauma.

Rangreza is a reflection of my diasporic experiences and grappling some harsh realities on Coast Salish lands. This piece is me trying to stay connected to a culture and way of life that I love, and also addressing that people experiencing addiction or substance abuse are often trauma survivors and need to be cared for and cared about as such. It’s been healing writing this piece. It’s a love letter to the spiritual - which to me is less about religion and more about defining spiritual/spirit in whatever way brings us warmth, in whatever way caresses love and light into our souls. And also building on the Islamic idea of tawhid, oneness, which draws attention to all of our interconnectedness. A reminder that like the interweaving roots of trees - that to love, care for, connect with, look up to, provide shade and life for each other, is perhaps the most powerful way to stay grounded in something more than ourselves.

06/27/2022

🐭 goodbye spring showers, hello SUMMER SUNSHINE 🏵️

Bloom Zine Collective wishes you so much growth, friendships, simple pleasures, and all the prosperity that the sun has to offer
🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
Happy First Day of SUMMER!!!

Watercolour by: alistair (they/them) Angelart.work

06/06/2022

another throw back to our first zine from spring 2021
bloom zine collective - issue #001 race + gender

🌿 "Miracles (2020)" by Sunny Chen
she/her/they/them
Sunny Chen AKA Sad China

"Living in diaspora means we have to water our roots, and find meaning in our family's histories, even if it hurts. We have to tend to our past, while looking forward to our future. The time of COVID-19 provides the catalyst to rediscovering ourselves.

Inspiration: Revisiting my childhood, both in China and Canada, as well as watching my roommate's and my garden grow, and the anxiety of being outside and visibly racialized."

See Full Video: https://youtu.be/SplZASMYmtM

05/30/2022

a throw back to our first zine from spring 2021
bloom zine collective - issue #001 race + gender

🌿 "Propagation" by Fatima Aamir
she/her

"My poem is titled "Propagation," like growing new plants from old ones. I reflect on my grandmother and grapple with the diasporic longing and uprootedness I often feel having left Pakistan at a young age. Race is experienced in a lot of ways, but I feel it most in terms of my outsider immigrant status, my longing for yet alienation from my homeland. This sense of uprootedness is only compounded by my anxiety at the state of the world right now - not so much the virus, but how capitalism is preventing us from dealing with it - and about my worries for the future having just graduated into this perilous world. In quarantine, plants - growing life, protecting and preserving it - have not only grounded me, but helped me deal with loneliness by giving me purpose - and unintentionally helped me connect with my grandma. My hardy, Punjabi dadi embodies the best of the earth for me. She's seen a lot of death but remained resolutely connected to life, always nurturing and always resilient. Regardless of the weather, she's remained adaptive and instinctive in a way that I never was, especially growing up in a hyper-capitalist North American culture, where I was taught to accumulate rather than tend. This poem represents my impulse to reach out across generations, to "propagate" beauty, and to overcome loneliness. "

05/17/2022

bloom zine collective - issue #002 harm reduction + healing

🌿 "122 BPM"
Cam Hautcœur-Boyer (they/them)hauboy

I’m a trans and indigenous youth who grew up amidst the forests and waters of the K'ómoks Valley. I think I’ve got something that makes office workers in their 40’s feel comfortable swearing while on the clock.

THE WHAT: I make visual and written art. Sometimes I go a little wild and mix the two, and then I submit it to a lovely zine, and then I spill trail mix everywhere when I find out that my piece has been accepted. Themes I find myself coming back to are interpersonal connection, morality, unreality, and home.

THE WHY: I have to put the human experience somewhere or I think I’d drown in it. There are certain things I can only express in caps locked sentences and others only in drawings of hands.

THE HOW: Some nights I feel as though if I don’t make something from myself, I’ll explode. This results in a gargoyle-esque hunch over my bed or desk or couch, furiously creating until my headphones lose battery. This must take place when I need to wake up early the next morning.

05/06/2022

bloom zine collective - issue #002 harm reduction + healing
🌿”BLOOM” by
they/them
linktr.ee/mirroredfatality
postcrypt.cargo.site/mirrored-fatality
Part of the larger “cocoon webs” EP: mirroredfatality.bandcamp.com

this psychedelic cool music video named after, yours truly, “bloom” by mirrored fatality
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“mirrored fatality is a nonbinary Kapampangan-Pilipinx and Pakistani-Muslim performance art duo Mango and Samar, sharing their rituals, altars, and medicine through DIT (Do It Together) experimental and healing noise punk. mirrored fatality creates their self-proclaimed “cocoon webs” combining performance art, music, spoken word, film, photography, painting, drawing, upcycled garments, anti-imperialist education, healing justice practice spaces; mobilizing and bridging a transnational warrior community who responds urgently to transnational calls-to-action between Turtle Island, Kashmir, and Mindanao.
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mirrored fatality’s performance activism allows them a safe space to release their bubbling, fermenting primal rage rooted in the settler colonialism, transphobia, racism, xenophobia, and intergenerational ancestral trauma they experience daily as nonbinary people of color. mirrored fatality’s intentions for their art is for Q***r Trans Black Indigenous People of Color to embody their rage, disrupt the silence and isolation from existing in a white supremacist capital"

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See the full video at: https://youtu.be/GG-vBJ5dTVw

05/04/2022

bloom zine collective - issue #002 harm reduction + healing

🌿”BLOOM” by Mirrored Fatality
they/them
linktr.ee/mirroredfatality
postcrypt.cargo.site/mirrored-fatality
Part of the larger “cocoon webs” EP: https://mirroredfatality.bandcamp.com

this psychedelic cool music video named after, yours truly, “bloom” by mirrored fatality
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“The BLOOM music video features soundscapes and footage from immersing ourselves in nature as we ground in our souls as bodies existing outside of isolation, capitalism, gender dysphoria, and the prison state. BLOOM was written together at the top of a mountain in Happy Valley in Tongva Land, so-called East Los Angeles at Sarita Doe and Champoy yurt dwelling ceremony. BLOOM unearths diasporic q***r spirituality and harnesses our ancestral languages- Urdu and Kapampangan. BLOOM is a prayer to honor the bonds of our love that expands and brings regeneration into our multiverse. BLOOM is a spell to inspire deeper connections to our Earth and welcome in freedom and joy for ourselves and kin.”

mirrored fatality is a nonbinary Kapampangan-Pilipinx and Pakistani-Muslim performance art duo Mango and Samar, sharing their rituals, altars, and medicine through DIT (Do It Together) experimental and healing noise punk. mirrored fatality creates their self-proclaimed “cocoon webs” combining performance art, music, spoken word, film, photography, painting, drawing, upcycled garments, anti-imperialist education, healing justice practice spaces; mobilizing and bridging a transnational warrior community who responds urgently to transnational calls-to-action between Turtle Island, Kashmir, and Mindanao.
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mirrored fatality’s performance activism allows them a safe space to release their bubbling, fermenting primal rage rooted in the settler colonialism, transphobia, racism, xenophobia, and intergenerational ancestral trauma they experience daily as nonbinary people of color. mirrored fatality’s intentions for their art is for Q***r Trans Black Indigenous People of Color to embody their rage, disrupt the silence and isolation from existing in a white supremacist capitalistic apocalyptic world, and harness collective care, catharsis, and holistic healing. Join them in imagining the future we’ve been fighting for and experience mirrored fatality’s reflections to witness our highest, truest selves.

See The Full Video: https://youtu.be/GG-vBJ5dTVw
Read The Full Zine : www.bloomyvr.com

03/29/2022

bloom zine collective - issue #002 harm reduction + healing

🌿“the karmapseudical industry”
kiranjit shoker (she/her)the.muse

A poem which asks readers to reflect on the relationship between medicine and healing

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“‘The Karmapseudical Industry’ entices the audience to consider what is medicine and healing, and how we have come to these practices. For too long, Western culture has capitalized off of colonized culture without benefiting those communities or people. They will allow all of our love into their home but will not love us equitably in return. Perhaps this poem captures a sense of betrayal or injustice of being used in a disingenuous manner; I love being Canadian, but Canada doesn’t love people who look like me. They will gladly accept my saffron and gold, but not give me equal access to opportunity. Its socio-economically profitable to exoticise and commodify a culture. People say cultural appropriation doesn’t exist, that globalization is about sharing, but tell me what the West is giving back to the colonized while taking their treasures?

Shoker is a South Asian Canadian artist and educator forged from the cracks of diaspora, whose writing and performances centre around agency and self-determination. In exploring race, gender, and colonialism with raw humanity, Shoker’s art builds on empowerment and restoration of self.”

12/22/2021

Happy holidays from the Bloom team! We hope you use this time to relax, eat good food, and spend time with your loved ones. Please remember to stay safe and take care of yourselves.

Thank you so much for supporting our zine over this past year. We look forward to sharing more local artists and leaders in community with you in the new year!

11/20/2021

hi everyone! we’re back after a post-launch hiatus to take some time to recharge and re-energize ourselves. with our return, we would love to take the next few weeks to showcase and celebrate the incredible work of the artists featured in bloom issue #002!

bloom zine collective - issue #002 harm reduction + healing

🌿 “not your drug”
maiya dexel (she/her) blender

The coca leaf has been cultivated in South America for centuries. It is respected in the region and used in a variety of cultural, medical, and religious practices. People chew it, burn it, and use it to make tea. But it is also used to make co***ne. Because of this, the U.S. War on Drugs has worked to eliminate and stigmatize coca growth. Backed by the U.S. and local governments, police in Colombia and other South American countries are tasked with eradicating the farming of coca. They burn and destroy entire crops. Crops produced by rural peasant families. This destroys their source of income with no restitution, and nothing is done to increase the price of alternative crops.

Being Colombian, I understand the damages of the co***ne industry. Much of the violence and corruption in Colombia can be attributed to it. However, punishing farmers for trying to feed their families only further perpetuates poverty and suffering.
Colonial understanding ignores the cultural and economic importance of the coca leaf to local populations as it continues to vilify Indigenous practices.

Maiya Dexel is a le***an mestiza artist who is in her first year at UBC Arts focusing on political science with an interest in Latin American studies and social justice.

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06/25/2021

❁✿❀ BLOOM ISSUE #002 IS OUT NOW ❀✿❁

we are very excited to announce the release of our second issue of bloom, harm reduction + healing, which unpacks how harm has shown up in our lives, and the ways in which substances live in relationship to our unique cultures, spirituality, recreation, medicine, religion, and other facets of life.

this issue features the work of 9 bipoc youth who have given us the opportunity to feature their work. there is immense strength and vulnerability to share your work and we are so honoured to be able to showcase all of them!

biggest thank you to all of you who took the time and energy to submit your work and we are so extremely grateful for all of your endless support.

we hope you love it as much as we do!

link in our bio to check it out!!

cover art by Cam Hautcœur-Boyer (they/them) .hauboy
titled “122 BPM”

03/18/2021

Exciting news ‼️ We have selected the winning submissions for our issue on Harm Reduction + Healing. We will begin reaching out to these artists veeeeery soon so please keep an eye out on your inbox. 💌

Meanwhile, this powerful piece was submitted by Orlayna (they/she) for our first issue, titled "breathing in a Black body."

[ID: Handwritten poetry on a light yellow background. Title: breathing in a Black body

"i feel like i always knew
so maybe that's why no one
told me, only opened they mouth
to shout in church on sunday and only
open mine to pour down gizzards and
cornbread. i miss the way my grandma's house
smelled when she cooked on the stove on randolph st.
i don't remember walking down any street and seeing
someone white and getting ill because i though about
Trayvon Martin too long. i don't remember a sense of
panic seeing blue and red lights flicker from the driver's
seat of my car, thumb shaking like hell on the Facebook live
button. i remember flipping blonde hair i didn't have in the
third grade, and Momma getting 38 hot at me. "you ain't
white. don't you know you ain't white?" my lips and bottom
were elementary entertainment. i never knew it was wrong
to be Black. i never knew that being born was going to be my
death. never new it wasn't safe to go places with my white
friends because it was going to be my fault automatically.
the news used to be background noise but now it's reality TV.
but it isn't television when i'm experiencing it. it's real and
high definition and violent and aler and i am not unafraid.
i wish sometimes i had never taken
my first breath."]

03/05/2021

Hi everyone! As we work on going through all the lovely submission for zine 2, we wanted to take this opportunity to showcase all the amazing work from zine 1! For the next few weeks, we will be showcasing the past artists featured in BLOOM #001: Race + Gender!⁣
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Our first feature is “Beautiful” written by the talented Genique Baker .is.everything⁣
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[IMAGE 1 ID: Genique sitting in a forest cross legged with text on the side saying:⁣
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“This poem is about my experience growing up as a mixed race woman of South Asian and Jamaican heritage and having the whole world tell me to be something I’m not to make myself more “palatable”. The image was shot by Bray Jorstad and directed by Eunice Michell to be featured in a gallery called “Being” about being human, being in balance with one’s feminine and masculine energy and being in one’s essence.”]⁣
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[IMAGE 2 ID: Written on a write background with a flower and leaf silhouette on the top left and bottom right: ⁣
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“Beautiful⁣
By Genique Baker⁣
To the girl afraid to go outside in the sun because she doesn’t⁣
want to get darker.⁣
Let the sun kiss you, let her warm and tender touch heal you.⁣
Know that even when the sun activated your melanin skin that you⁣
are beautiful.⁣
To the girl afraid to eat that second helping so she sits there⁣
starving.⁣
Let the food nourish you. If you listen to your body if will tell you⁣
when it’s had enough.⁣
Know that even if you feel full, you are beautiful.⁣
To the girl afraid to show her skin because she has dimples and⁣
stretch marks that mosaic her body.⁣
Free your skin, your markings are part of your story, they are⁣
perfectly imperfect.⁣
Know that even with these marks you are beautiful.⁣
To the girl who straightens her curly hair because the world called⁣
it crazy and frizzy.⁣
Let your curls be free, God made you this way.⁣
Know that even when your hair is not perfect you are beautiful.⁣
And to the girls who were told they were fat, ugly or less than⁣
anyone else.⁣
Just know it was never about you, it was always about them.⁣
Always know that you are beautiful.”]⁣
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[IMAGE 3 ID: Flowery graphic with “TO SEE FULL ZINE VISIT US AT http://WWW.BLOOMYVR.COM” written on an orange

02/25/2021

Helllllllo everyone! Just a reminder, there are 3 days left to submit to Bloom! ☺️🎨⁣
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02/23/2021

Oh to be a doggo in a floral crown 🐶💐⁣
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02/18/2021

And lastly, 4/4 of our guiding prompts for our upcoming issue on harm reduction and healing! As always, these prompts are just here to act a loose guide for our theme of Harm Reduction + Healing 🪴💫 ⁣

Check out our previous posts or our website for more info and other guiding prompts! ☺️⁣
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[ID: Tie-dye graphic displaying the question “How does our understanding of substance/medicine use compare to a colonial understanding of substance/medicine use?” and “How do community care and harm reduction intersect?”]⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

02/06/2021

1/4 of our guiding prompts for Bloom #002: Harm Reduction + Healing. Head on over to our webpage to see the rest of our guiding prompts and details on how to submit!⁣
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[ID: Tie-dye graphic displaying the question “How do community care and harm reduction intersect?"]⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

02/05/2021

Us blowing you a kiss good night 👀 (and also sending you subliminal messages to submit to bloom! ✨)⁣
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[ID: White fur cat with fairy wings outside holding its nose to a human finger.]⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

02/03/2021

Oh but to be a little froggy on a cake 🐸✨ !! ⁣
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Reminder that we are still excepting submissions until February 27 for our second zine!! 💕⁣
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[ID: image of a tweet saying “never seen a more perfect cake” with pictures of an icing cake with an icing frog and “forg” written in icing.]⁣

01/30/2021

Us looking at you to submit to Bloom 👀✨🪴⁣
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[ID: White and grey bunny wearing pink-blue gradient heart sunglasses]⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

01/29/2021

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Just a quick little summary on how to submit to Bloom ✨🥰⁣⁣
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[ID 1: Retro graphic displaying “how to submit to bloom”, “harm reduction + healing”⁣⁣
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ID 2: Retro graphic displaying “WE ARE ACCEPTING any kind of expressive work: photography, drawn visuals, collages, paintings, prose, and poetry on the themes of harm reduction + healing”, “CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE⁣
for submission guidelines, guiding prompts, and other important details at bloomyvr.com”, “SUBMIT BY FEB 27 2021 @ 11:59 PM PST. questions? DM us or email at [email protected]”, “SELECTED SUBMISISONS WILL RECEIVE A $100 HONORARIUM⁣”]⁣⁣”⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

01/26/2021

Thank you to everybody who has helped us spread word about our second zine so far! ☺️🎨 If you’re on the fence about submitting, this is your sign to go for it!! (We are accepting submissions for another month, so no immediate rush!) ⁣
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All forms of expressive work that align with our theme are welcome! Our DMs are open basically 24/7 so please don’t hesitate to get in touch! ✨⁣
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[ID 1: Orange tie-dye graphic displaying “ we are excepting any kind of expressive work on the theme of healing + harm reduction. Submit by February 27”⁣
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ID 2: Orange tie-dye graphic displaying “photography, illustrations, dance, collages, film, paintings, prose, poetry & more. Unsure? DM or email us: [email protected]”]⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

01/25/2021

Hello everyone!🪴We come to you bearing some very exciting news- we are officially accepting submissions for our second zine! ✨🪐⁣
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If you’re a QTBIPOC (Q***r, Trans, Black, Indigenous, or Person of Colour) individual residing in what is now known as British Columbia, we are inviting you to share what “Harm Reduction + Healing” means to you and your community! 📚🎨⁣
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Submissions are open from today until Feb 27th. Once again, thanks to funding from Cannabis and Psychosis-Exploring the Link (a project of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada), selected submissions will be awarded ☘️$100🍀 honorariums!⁣
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Check out our website for some guiding prompts related to our theme and for more general information on how to submit! Feel free to message or email us if you have any other questions! ⁣
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[ID: Red, yellow and pink geometric border with green plotted plant logo graphic displaying the phase “Call for submissions open. Deadline Feb 27th”]⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

01/23/2021

So a few days ago, we revealed Harm Reduction + Healing as the theme for our second issue. What exactly does that mean? 🤔

Bloom is basing our understanding of harm reduction off the 8 principles of harm reduction which essentially describes that drugs, medicine, and other substance use is a multi-faceted phenomenon, and harm reduction takes aim at not only the use itself but the conditions around it. Link to full article here! https://bit.ly/2NlftwS

Taking that further, we at Bloom acknowledge that white supremacy and racial bias are foundational to how substances and substances use are viewed in Western societies — and this is especially impactful for us as QTBIPOC youth when we ask questions like how community care and healing intersect, or how our understanding of substances (from our identities, cultures, ancestors, etc.) compare to a colonial understanding.

We can't wait to open our platform up as a space for us to share our thoughts and reflections on these themes. Our call for submissions is dropping this weekend so keep a look out! ✨

[ID: Tie-dye graphic displaying the question "What is harm reduction?"]

01/20/2021

It's time to unveil what we at Bloom have been working on these past couple of months. Drumroll, please! 🥁

Bloom is proud to announce NEW, FUNKY & FRESH plans for our SECOND ZINE on the themes of ✨ HARM REDUCTION + HEALING ✨ Thanks to funding from Cannabis and Psychosis - Exploring the Link (a project of the Schizophrenia Society), selected submissions will be awarded $100 honorariums. We will be announcing our call for submissions veeery soooon!

So what about harm reduction + healing? Our second zine is based around the principles of harm reduction: accepting that licit and illicit substance use is part of our world, choosing to minimize its harmful effects and meeting people where they're at, rather than ignoring or condemning this reality. What does this mean for us as q***r, trans, Indigenous, Black, and people of colour (QTBIPOC) youth?

We will be inviting QTBIPOC youth 30 and under to share reflections on harm reduction, collective healing, community care & more. Bloom is excited to hold a positive space for these conversations so please join us & help spread the word as we start this new journey 💓

[ID: Retro-style graphic displaying the words "Harm Reduction + Healing" and "Bloom Zine #2"]

11/17/2020

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This is a great low barriers option for anyone who wants to get routine checks done quickly and without judgment.

Here’s how it works:

1. Go to https://getcheckedonline.com and create an account.
2. Create a lab form form for which ever STI you would like to test for
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4. Results by email in 7-12 days

Currently, GetChecked serves Vancouver, Victoria, Duncan, Kamloops, Kimberley, and Nelson in BC and tests for Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, HIV, Syphilis, and Hepatitis C. For more information feel free to check out their webpage or shoot us a message and we can try to help direct you better!

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07/12/2020

Meet Ziggie (they/them), the artist behind “I Am Growing”. They submitted a series of responses to our prompts that allow us to get to know them and their work better:

1. Tell us about yourself !

My name is Ziggie, I am a 20-year-old Black genderq***r and q***r multifaceted
artist, focusing on digital illustrations, short-videos, and poetry.

2. What do you hope people will take away from your piece?

I want people to be able to reflect on where they feel most themselves and feel grounded and connected to the space around them. A place where they feel safe to grow and be their authentic selves.

3. Favourite form of art?

I have been loving clay art! I would love to experiment and make little sculptures of people and creatures with clay.

4. What’s one random fact about you?

A random fact about me is that I was in Vogue Australia at age 3!

5. What inspired you to put this together?

When I created this piece I had recently set-up my bedroom to feel like it reflected who I am, I was surrounded by art and plants that I love. It became a space that I felt grounded and recharged in, my space reflected my Blackness, my trans identity and my growth. I was surrounded by playbills of Black musicals I went to, art my Black and trans artists (or myself), and plants that are longing to grow as much as I am. I felt inspired and a strong sense of self in this space and like I could emotionally grow in this space. I wanted this piece to show that feeling of being grounded, and that feeling of re-charging in a space that wholeheartedly reflects who I am.

6. What kinds of themes/subjects do you gravitate towards?

I gravitate towards themes of healing, affirmations, and joy.

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Miracles (2020) by Sunny Chen - BloomZineCollective #001 spring 2021 - race + gender

another throw back to our first zine from spring 2021 bloom zine collective - issue #001 race + gender 🌿 "Miracles (2020)" by Sunny Chen she/her/they/them Sunny Chen AKA Sad China "Living in diaspora means we have to water our roots, and find meaning in our family's histories, even if it hurts. We have to tend to our past, while looking forward to our future. The time of COVID-19 provides the catalyst to rediscovering ourselves. Inspiration: Revisiting my childhood, both in China and Canada, as well as watching my roommate's and my garden grow, and the anxiety of being outside and visibly racialized." See Full Video: https://youtu.be/SplZASMYmtM

BLOOM by mirrored fatality - music video - BloomZineCollective #002 harm reduction + healing

bloom zine collective - issue #002 harm reduction + healing 🌿”BLOOM” by Mirrored Fatality they/them linktr.ee/mirroredfatality postcrypt.cargo.site/mirrored-fatality Part of the larger “cocoon webs” EP: https://mirroredfatality.bandcamp.com this psychedelic cool music video named after, yours truly, “bloom” by mirrored fatality - - - - “The BLOOM music video features soundscapes and footage from immersing ourselves in nature as we ground in our souls as bodies existing outside of isolation, capitalism, gender dysphoria, and the prison state. BLOOM was written together at the top of a mountain in Happy Valley in Tongva Land, so-called East Los Angeles at Sarita Doe and Champoy yurt dwelling ceremony. BLOOM unearths diasporic queer spirituality and harnesses our ancestral languages- Urdu and Kapampangan. BLOOM is a prayer to honor the bonds of our love that expands and brings regeneration into our multiverse. BLOOM is a spell to inspire deeper connections to our Earth and welcome in freedom and joy for ourselves and kin.” mirrored fatality is a nonbinary Kapampangan-Pilipinx and Pakistani-Muslim performance art duo Mango and Samar, sharing their rituals, altars, and medicine through DIT (Do It Together) experimental and healing noise punk. mirrored fatality creates their self-proclaimed “cocoon webs” combining performance art, music, spoken word, film, photography, painting, drawing, upcycled garments, anti-imperialist education, healing justice practice spaces; mobilizing and bridging a transnational warrior community who responds urgently to transnational calls-to-action between Turtle Island, Kashmir, and Mindanao. 🍃 mirrored fatality’s performance activism allows them a safe space to release their bubbling, fermenting primal rage rooted in the settler colonialism, transphobia, racism, xenophobia, and intergenerational ancestral trauma they experience daily as nonbinary people of color. mirrored fatality’s intentions for their art