Hi! I have a lot to tell you, but I’ll keep it to just two big, wonderful things:
It’s AAPI month and we’re donating all of the profits of Generational Trauma / Healing prints, and 20% of all other prints to the Asian Mental Health Collective!
Elsa got her wheelchair and it is… an absolute delight.
Ok, let’s go: AAPI LOVE
In 2018, I made this painting about my family, and the way we all seemed to be drenched a pain that wouldn’t go away.
I had started having terrible panic attacks when I was young, but it wasn’t until my early 30s that I really started therapy.1
It saved my life in slow motion: it was happening, but at first I could barely tell. It was a year or two until I began to realize, in an embodied, felt-sense kind of way, that my heartache might want to move, shifting into something easy to carry and noncontagious.
A year after making that first piece, I returned to draw up both my grief and my newly found ability to imagine a different kind of future. Here’s what I made:
I know that many of you have connected with this over the years, as I’ve been profoundly moved by the stories you’ve shared.
Through Sunday 5/28, we’re donating all the proceeds from Generational Trauma / Healing prints to help more AAPI people access resources for healing. We’re also donating 20% from all other prints!
We’re donating 100% of the profits of Generational Trauma prints, and 20% of all other prints to the Asian Mental Health Collective this week!
AMHC helps AAPI people all over the world connect to mental health therapists and supplies a scholarship fund that has helped a ton of AAPI folks get therapy. They’re offering the kinds of things I needed and I’m excited to be able to join them. Thanks for being part of it. I love doing this with you.
Elsa’s wheels
Elsa got her wheels!! As you know, she was having a hard time. She couldn’t stand, she was in pain, and she seemed depressed and uninterested in her favorite things. So, it was a slow start.
Everyone in our family (except little miko 😂) lives with disability and/or chronic illness. We adapt everything except ourselves — our environment and schedules and aids — to fit our wonderful bodies and make it as easy as possible to do the things we love. Accessibility is an ongoing creative project. It’s fun and full of love.
Elsa is now cruising all over the place and full of her self again. What a joy to see. Thanks for cheering her on.
before I go, don’t forget!
If you’d like any prints, swing by soon if you’d like your purchase to go toward our AAPI mental health fundraiser! SHOP HERE
And last but not least, Miko says hi:
Before that I was always uninsured or underinsured and so I was scraping together a way to get by, and feeling worse and worse as my world got smaller and smaller.
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everything<3