Stress Response: Plan
Hey Stranger!
I have been struggling through working with burnout, stress, from my personal life, academic life, and the state of my country and earth. I’d like to use the time to make a post and state some new goals.
I want to get more involved with local communities, indigenous/grassroots orgs, and queer art based orgs.
While I plan to start my career with teaching in academic contexts, I do want my long term goals to shift outside of academia, I want to bring art to people who have no access to it: disability group homes, retirement homes, prison industry, begin queer outreach through art, and more.
I want to keep building my connections within my cohort and strengthen the community in my immediate vicinity.
I need to mask up again, and I think you should consider it as well. Many have given into social pressure, I as well. Nobody is perfect, but efforts are everything.
I need to push for my access more firmly. I am very sick of people that claim to love me and they do not show up for me about this. It is shallow. If you do this, it is not ever too late to start trying, I cannot make myself hear, you can learn to sign.
My studio practice needs to be accessible, I’m set on most everything except one: I need to go solvent free and I need to work on making image descriptions for my website.
Keep doing direct action, I have been fundraising a lot for Palestine the last few months, this is how I do direct action, how can I push this further?
reading and writing as a form of resistance.
I need to correct people about my pronouns more. I am going to not shove myself away, I only for a year and a half have fully come out and explored my gender and sexuality out in the open, I will not make myself easier to swallow.
The only thing I plan to say left stranger, is all art is a direct response to the world, and all art is political. Historically, artist movements have always been inspired by the world of the time period. I hope you are resting and also making plans to engage with your community and start participating in direct action with whatever you can. You matter.
See you later, stranger!
