Leave your mark.

Leave your mark everywhere you can so that
white fascism and cis supremacy drowns in a sea of your stories.

Leave your message scrawled on street
corners, written on the walls, painted on the bus stops over body shaming
advertisements, on misogynist billboards, across slurs on bathroom stalls.  Transform their hate everywhere you find it.

Just because they can buy the spaces on the
sides of buildings and buses, along the highways and park benches does not make
it theirs.  

These cities are stolen land and you are
the mutineers within them.

All you need is a spray can, a marker, some
paper, flour, water and your friends.

Leave your mark.

Leave your mark everywhere.

Take a page from Octavia’s books and write
yourself into the present and into the future.   Write stories, create art, make zines, play
music, keep a blog, tattoo your friends.

Every space is an opportunity.  Leave constellations for others to follow to
learn from and grow out of.  We are not
alone, you are not alone, we are many and we are fighting, surviving, loving and
dreaming alongside you.  Make it so each
time we go outside we cannot help, but stumble upon you, a reflection of
ourselves, our resistance and our dreams.

One of the contributions to the 2Spirit
Warrior Society Raffle are 2 two hour tattoo collaborations with queer artist and
tattooist Kiala.  

https://2spiritwsraffle.tumblr.com/

Kiala’s works explore their own and shared
stories of queer existence, chart narratives of resistance and dream other
realities into being.   For many of us our survival is resistance,
leaving our mark is courageous, and making art of our dreams transformative.

This prize is available to anyone on Lkwungen and W̱ŚANÉC territories, or
down to travel to collaborate on a tattoo for you with Kiala.

You can support Kiala’s work directly
here:  http://artbykiala.com/handpoked

And leave your mark.

Leave your mark everywhere because art is
too powerful to be contained in the white walls of galleries and you are too
important to not tell your story.

https://www.voicesfrontlines.com/leave-your-mark-leave-your-mark-everywhere-you/