Day: February 26, 2022

Favi with Protect Trans Rights sign

Protect Trans Rights!

The wave of anti-trans legislation that the right wing is using to mobilize their base has hit a new, dangerous low. Greg Abbot has officially directed Family and Protective Services to begin investigating all trans

Day: February 26, 2022

Favi with Protect Trans Rights sign

Protect Trans Rights!

The wave of anti-trans legislation that the right wing is using to mobilize their base has hit a new, dangerous low. Greg Abbot has officially directed Family and Protective Services to begin investigating all trans

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Mutual Aid Request: Please support a beloved member of the Favi Studios team, Jay @shiftingself as she moves to the East Coast with her dog at the end of Dec. Jay has been a core member of my art studio team since 2017!! She runs my shop and also supports me on social media. She needs to make a transition to another city because Bay housing prices are just too high! As you can imagine, moving across the country after 7 years of living in Oakland is super expensive and complicated. I have donated to Jay and I encourage you to support as well. She is a very important member of my team and I could not do all that I do without her help. She will continue to work with me and support me with the shop and my digital presence. Thank you to all who can donate! She is also selling her own artwork to help support her move. Link to donate is in bio!

NEW ART! This print pays homage to the activism exploding in the Bay Area in defense of a Free Pal estine. In order to disrupt the dominant narrative, it is imperative that we all do our part to shut down the veins of the economy. When I was a kid, my revolutionary teachers taught me that we have to hit those in power where it hurts the most, their pocketbooks. That means disrupting the economy by blocking the gears of the machine. The Bay Area has shown up for Pal estine in a powerful way, whether it’s blocking weapon shipments at the Port of Oakland, or blocking major thoroughfares, or working with our city electeds to pass resolutions in support of a ceasefire, such as the resolution that just passed in Oakland. We in the Bay Area have a deep history of direct action and unapologetic activism, and we inspire the world. Through my art, I immortalize powerful moments of resistance, so that they may remain alive in our collective consciousness - visual records in our shared imagination. This piece celebrates the direct action for Palestine that took place on Thursday November 16th at 7:45 am, as thousands of people were trying to get to San Francisco and APEC, a global corporate summit, was in full swing. The action demanded a ceasefire and called out President Biden to do more for the Palestinians, 11,000 of whom have so far died in the military assault by Israel. The original photo was taken by Noah Berger. As usual with my prints about Palestine, I will donate proceeds of this print to organizations supporting Palestinian freedom and organizing direct actions such as this. This is my 3rd print about Palestine.

NEW POSTER! FREE DOWNLOAD! Please share widely. Shared from @incite_paliforce: Please join our call to action: ➡️ Download the posters & stickers and paste them everywhere: incite-national.org
➡️ Spread images and stickers far and wide.
➡️ Paint the truth everywhere!
➡️Tag us in your actions and use our hashtags:
#INCITE! #INCITENoGenocide #FeministArtAgainstGenocide
#FeministsSayNoGenocide? Find this art at: incite-national.org or click on my link in bio This is a call to feminists of color world wide! Join us in standing strong and saying NO to geno cide! We invite you to recognize Pal estine as a feminist issue and rise up against the geno cide and apartheid in occu pied Pal estine! “No Geno cide: Feminists of Color Rise Up Free Pal estine” Poster is live! Art by @favianna1 in collaboration with INCITE @incite_paliforce and Pal estinian Feminist Collective @palestinianfeministcollective
Gratitude to my bro @ernestoyerena who assisted me! Go to our website incite-national.org to learn more about the Incite! Pal estine Force Call for Public Art. 🍉🍉🍉 I am the voice that has always spoken inside of you. No I am the one that has always risen inside of you. No I am the one rooted deep in ansisters who teach when to say No I am the one that learned and is standing here again to say No No you cannot take this
body
this
baby
this spirit
No you cannot take this
tree
this
water
this land No, genocide No Your time is up
Do you see us?
The masses gather
to celebrate life
to cherish and honor the living
to sing and pray for our dead
we gather to welcome
the new day the new dawn Pal estine is Free
Pal estine is Free
Pal estine is Free 🍉🍉🍉

Bring more beauty into your life with my art! My annual Winter Sale is happening. All my creations are 20% off. Support artists and small businesses who are aligned with your values. Support creators who are standing against oppressive systems and speaking truth to power. Don’t give your money to corporations that are funding bombs and devastation. I do a deep discount like this ONLY ONCE A YEAR! Use the code WINTER at check out for 20% off.

For #CyberMonday I’m highlighting some of the fine art on my website that’s priced $200 or under. And when you use code WINTER you receive 20% off your entire order. These pieces are all one of a kind. Thank you for collecting my work! My art studio is run by all femmes, and most of them are Queer BIPOC folks. My holiday sale allows me to keep my studio running and thriving. It’s only the only time of the year when I do deep discounts on all my stuff. I know that we are in times of gen0cide and that it cannot be business as usual, and that many folks will not be celebrating nor buying anything. Instead for lots of folks, it will be a time of deep grief and action. My studio is not business as usual as we are doing all we can to support the resistance movement and create art about a Free Pal3st1ne. Visit my link in bio to check out my store. Or follow the links here. Use the code WINTER at check out for 20% off Pieces shown:
1. Selva
2. Touch
3. Embrace Your Softness 38
4. Trenza 5
5. Listen To Your Body 47
6. And
7. Study for Salt Pond Restoration 5

Beloveds! My annual Winter Sale is happening. All my creations are 20% off for just a few more days. Support artists and small businesses who are aligned with your values. Support creators who are standing against oppressive systems and speaking truth to power. I do a deep discount like this just once a year. Use the code WINTER at check out for 20% off. Love ya’ll!! Thank you for supporting me!

Let’s get educated about this! Shared from @ahmedeldin
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🚨 The dehumanizing language that @nytimes and the @guardian use is disproportionately reserved for Palestinians. It is a systemic problem in mainstream media’s misrepresentation of the reality on the ground in Israel and occupied Palestine. • The Israelis released are described as “hostages” whereas the Palestinians are “prisoners” • The Israeli children held by Hamas for weeks are described as children. The Palestinian children held by Israel for decades are described as ‘minors’ or ‘18 and younger’. WHERE IN THE REPORTING AND STORYTELLING ARE THE FACTS AND CONTEXT ⁉️ Israel’s occupational army has detained 880 Palestinian children since the start of 2023. • There are between 500 and 1000 children held in Israeli military detention each year. • They are all ‘hostages’, kidnapped from their families, without charge, in most cases. To describe them as “prisoners” and minors, is as dehumanizing as it is misleading. • Most Palestinian children are beaten, handcuffed and blindfolded during arrest. They are interrogated at unknown locations without the presence of a caregiver, and are deprived of food, water and sleep, or access to legal counsel. • The main alleged crime for these detentions is stone throwing, which can carry a 20-year sentence in prison for Palestinian children.

ART FANS! My annual Winter Sale starts today! Support artists and small businesses who are aligned with your values. Support creators who are standing against oppressive systems and speaking truth to power. Don’t give your money to corporations that are supporting bombs and devastation. 20% off all my art works for just a few days. I do this discount just once a year. Use the code WINTER at check out. My art studio is run by all femmes, and most of them are Queer BIPOC folks. My holiday sale allows me to keep my studio running and thriving. It’s only the only time of the year when I do deep discounts on all my stuff. Visit my link in bio to check out my store. Or follow the links here. Use the code WINTER at check out for 20% off

My annual Winter Sale starts today! Support artists and small businesses who are aligned with your values. Support creators who are standing against oppressive systems and speaking truth to power. Don’t give your money to corporations that are funding bombs and devastation. 20% off all my art works for just a few days. I do this discount just once a year. Use the code WINTER at check out. My art studio is run by all femmes, and most of them are Queer BIPOC folks. My holiday sale allows me to keep my studio running and thriving. It’s only the only time of the year when I do deep discounts on all my stuff. I know that we are in times of gen0cide and that it cannot be business as usual, and that many folks will not be celebrating nor buying anything. Instead for lots of folks, it will be a time of deep grief and action. My studio is not business as usual as we are doing all we can to support the resistance movement and create art about a Free Pal3st1ne. Visit my link in bio to check out my store. Or follow the links here. Use the code WINTER at check out for 20% off

All of this! Shared from @ndncollective Today, we reject the settler narrative surrounding Thanksgiving and continue to stand in solidarity with all Indigenous Peoples, including our Palestinian relatives who are under attack, suffering the sinister and brutal aggression of the settler state of Israel. The so-called US empire continues to commit genocide from Turtle Island to Palestine, while burying Indigenous narratives and instead glorifying false settler narratives. Many will sit down to share in food with loved ones, we call upon all to remember the sacredness of food to Indigenous Peoples – Corn, as a ceremonial and sacred food to Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island, and Watermelon, a food of our Palestinian relatives, also representing Palestinian resistance and liberation. Recognize that colonizers continue to brutalize and genocide Indigenous Peoples by destroying our food systems, from the mass slaughter of the 30 million buffalo that once roamed the Great Plains to the burning of tens of thousands of sacred olive trees in Palestine, to the cutting off of WATER to Gaza. We lift the universal truth that all Indigenous Peoples worldwide have the right to:
• Defend our People, our Homelands and Lifeways
• Develop our Nations sustainably and on our terms
• Decolonize our ways of living and reclaim our sacred Lands This is how we achieve true justice and equity for all people and Mother Earth. While a temporary ceasefire agreement has been made, a 5-day ceasefire is NOT ENOUGH. Continue to call upon your Tribal leaders and representatives to demand a FULL CEASEFIRE and humanitarian aid be delivered to Gaza immediately. Participate in #ShutItDown for Palestine on Friday, November 24. This international action will boycott, disrupt, and rally at commercial centers on Black Friday. To learn more, read our:
- Ceasefire Statement: ndnco.cc/palestinestatement
- Position Paper on Palestine: ndnco.cc/LDLBpr #NotThanksgiving #FreePalestine #ShutItDown #LANDBACK Other slides shared from @muchachafanzine and @monachalabi

UPDATE: My art sale is happening now! 20% off everything. Use code WINTER at checkout. Hello Wonderful Art Fans. We are in the midst of a tectonic global shift as it becomes clear that corporations and many in positions of power continue to attempt to control the narrative through intimidation and extreme erasure. I’m seeing so many artists, actors, and authors get punished, silenced, fired and harassed for speaking out about Pal3st1ne. Those who are silencing are the same forces who deny that climate change exists, who are war apologists, who stand by when our bodily freedoms get taken away, who care more about profits than people or planet. It’s critical that we understand that we cannot continue to support large corporations who are not aligned with our values, which is the majority of them. This means not only embracing boycotts, divestment and sanctions, but also moving our resources to small business owners, artists, creators who are values aligned, and who speak out for human rights for all. As the holidays approach, I encourage folks to support artists who are drawing clear lines about where they stand. Of course, I understand that we are in times of gen0cide and that it cannot be business as usual, and that many folks will not be celebrating. Instead for many, it will be a time of deep grief, contemplation and action. I will be having my usual holiday sale starting Friday. I will be launching one of a new prints to support the global movement to Free Pal3st1ne and will donate proceeds as well from this print. My art studio is run by all femmes, and most of them are Queer BIPOC folks. My holiday sale allows me to keep my studio running. It’s only the only time of the year when I do deep discounts on all my stuff. Please lookout for my sale on Friday!

Motaz needs our prayers! Share from • @lsarsour @motaz_azaiza is ALIVE but he’s been hearing drones flying around the place he takes respite at night and keeps getting unidentifiable calls to his mobile phone. The State of Israel has killed over 60 journalists in the last few weeks. Motaz is one of most powerful accounts of the stories from the ground. Motaz’s videos and photos have been a window in to the world of life for Palestinians under siege and bombardment. He has shown us things we can never unsee. I am summoning all the prayer warriors because I believe in collective prayer. Please pray for the protection of Motaz. May Allah cover him and shield the eyes of the enemy away from him. May Allah grant him a long life and show him a life that he is deserving of here on this earth and in the hereafter. Pray for all of our journalists on the ground and for our beloved Palestinian people and all oppressed peoples around the world 🌎

Mutual Aid Request: Please support a beloved member of the Favi Studios team, Jay @shiftingself as she moves to the East Coast with her dog. Jay has been a core member of my art studio team since 2017!! She runs my shop and also supports me on social media. She needs to make a transition to another city because Bay housing prices are just too high! As you can imagine, moving across the country after 7 years of living in Oakland is super expensive and complicated. I have donated to Jay and I encourage you to support as well. She is a very important member of my team and I could not do all that I do without her help. She will continue to work with me and support me with the shop and my digital presence. Thank you to all who can donate! Link to donate is in bio
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Shared from @shiftingself
Hi everyone, It’s hard to make this post but I am leaving Oakland after 7 years of being here. I moved here post graduate school with only a couple of boxes of belongings and I built a life here, found friends, fell in love. This place will always have my heart for holding me this many years. With all that being said not all of these years have been easy especially since the pandemic started with rent prices increases and inflation and my work hours being cut along with other terrible situations we’ve had to endure, staying here has been increasingly harder to manage. Mu lease is over at the end of December and ive chosen not to renew I don’t have much time so in order to secure my moving plan and an apartment i need financial help. Any and all contributions will go to the move and helping myself get settled once we get there. Thank you so much 💓 Gofundme link is in bio

So moved by this. Shared from @rollaselbak What we will never lose, let me tell you about my people compiled from videos that have inspired me to express why I keep my head high. #palestine #gaza #freepalestine

BAY AREA: I’m giving away a 4 x 4 foot agave cactus plant to a loving plant parent who has the room for it. She is big! I need to cut her off the branch. She can be repotted in cactus soil and she will live. She needs lots full sun. I also have a smaller one of this size that’s 3 x 3 feet. And I have a large verigated agave that you see in Slide 3, which is about 2 x 3 feet. Slides 5 and 6 are cute pics of me in my home garden. My plants that I’ve cared for carry my energy so don’t miss out on these if you have the sun and the space! Interested? Send me a DM and let’s discuss. I will answer questions.

Thank you to all my art fans who purchased a print honoring the children of Al-Shifa Hospital. The screenprints sold out in just over 24 hours. More art pieces will be created in these next few days. I will continue to make art that elevates the plight of the Pal3stinians, a people who have been subjected to dehumanization, incarceration, aparth3id, starvation and excessive violence for over 70 years! I have always spoken out about colonialism, oppression, militarism, and racism and I will continue to do so. This is at the core of who I am as a human, a person of moral integrity that speaks out against injustice and oppression. As an environmentalist, I stand against all militaries because they devastate the earth. They poison water and destroy LIFE. I am a defender of LIFE and will not stand by while a gen0cide takes place. It is important that every single one of us speak up and speak out, with our families and friends, in our workplaces, on our platforms. The more of us that speak out, the safer we become. Together, we are shifting the narrative. The reality is that no one can be “safe” when we are dropping bombs on children and families. Imagine!? What kind of “safety” will that bring? Militarism and unleashed destruction is NOT a pathway to peace, it’s not a pathway to more safety, it’s a recipe for disaster. I have donated $1625 in proceeds from these sales to the following orgs. Check them out and give as well:
@palestineredcrescent
@mecaforpeace
@palestinelegal
@aroc_bayarea Last image is an art piece by my friend @toosphexy . Let’s have those brave conversations y’all!

It’s powerful to see folks reject ingrained narratives that have shaped their identities. So thankful to the many anti-Z10nist Jewish folks who are speaking truth to power and literally exposing the core narratives that have facilitated gen0cide against Pal3st1nians. We are in the midst of a tectonic cultural shift where folks are recognizing the deeply problematic aspects of having an ethno-state that requires stealing the land of the people who were already there. I’m thankful for having the means to learn so rapidly and to see folks change their worldviews. That’s culture change and that’s why it’s important to elevate all the stories and center those who have been oppressed and dehumanized. Shared from @amandaseales
Thank you @k.w.bogen

Download this FREE poster I created, honoring the life of Heba Zagout, an Pa1estn1an artist who was killed with her two children by Israe1i airstrikes in their home in Gaza almost 1 month ago, on October 13th. (Sorry that my other prints sold out fast) I believe that life is sacred. Children are sacred. Domination and militarism destroy and devastate. The right to live free of humiliation, dehumanization, trauma, gen0cide, and starvation is a sacred human right. This poster was commissioned by my long-time friends, INCITE! Radical Feminists of Color Against Violence @incite_paliforce , in partnership with the Pa1estinian Feminist Collective @palestinianfeministcollective . It was over 20 years ago when I worked with my hermana, @anaclarissarojas , on a poster against the military invasion of Iraq that followed September 11th. Today she gifted me a Kufiyah, made in the last and only factory in Palestine. May Heba’s spirit and this art compel you to rise up and speak out. Download this poster, make stickers, reproduce this art at your local copy shop. I am not selling this poster, this poster is a gift to all of you. Honor Heba and the thousands of mothers like her who have been murdered. Shout out to my friend @ernestoyerena who helped me get this piece done. May we use all our creative tools to ensure that we are demanding a cease fire, an end to occupation and speaking out against historical injustices. Art by @favianna1 Download images and stickers at: incite-national.org or visit my link in bio

UPDATE: Sold out! Wow! Yall are fast! Thank you! My team will be shipping these out and making donations this week! Thank you! ORIGINAL POST: I created a new art piece to honor the children of 🍉Falestina. Children shouldn’t have to do press conferences to beg us to care. Last week, Pal3stinian children stood outside Al-Shifa hospital with a message pleading to the world that we care. They said: WE INVITE YOU TO PROTECT US.
WE WANT TO LIVE.
WE WANT PEACE.
WE WANT TO LIVE AS THE OTHER CHILDREN LIVE. I created this art piece so that we may never forget their words. Proceeds from this print will be donated to organizations and NGO’s doing critical work to support a Free Fal3stine 🍉. I am using all of my gifts to speak out at this moment. Every voice, every image, every disruption to the dominant narrative is critical. As @ijeomaoluo reminds us , “The more we speak about G@z@ the safer we all become.” A few days after this press conference, Isra3L began b0mbing the al-Shifa hospital, killing people and not allowing for people to enter in search of their loved ones, even preventing ambulances from entering and leaving the facility. My last print edition sold out and I was able to raise $1000 for the Pal3stinian Children Relief Fund. For this cycle I will donate to other groups. Please share this poster and visit my link in bio to get a print

Oakland is a special place where powerful and revolutionary culture is born. Our art, music, dance and storytelling influence the world. Yet for decades, Oakland artists, filmmakers and creatives had to leave Oakland due to systemic divestment in the arts. Many filmmakers who want to make films in Oakland are not able to because our city simply doesn’t have the infrastructure or incentives for it. However, this is starting to change! A small group of filmmakers and creatives have started to organize ourselves to imagine the future of storytelling in our city and to bring forth solutions that can work for ALL the creative sector, especially BIPOC folks who have been disproportionately under-resourced.! We are calling ourselves the East Bay Film Collective! This weekend our crew @wkamaubell @rafaelcasal @cheryldunye and many more gathered at @mamadogstudios and @corduroymedia to host a discussion about a vision for the future of film & tv in Oakland. It was LIT!! We as a cultural community, we know our power, and we are organized, and we have a city administration that’s down with us. In Oakland we can create cultural infrastructure that will not only change the entertainment industry, but that will change the cultural sector at large. Stories shape meta narratives that shape entire societies that shape policies. In these times, we are in a battle for the imagination. We must rapidly scale our cultural infrastructure in Oakland, because the world urgently needs other narratives, narratives that uplift those who have been oppressed and invisibilized - we need the stories that remind us that we are all deeply connected and that give us the courage to imagine a bold future. Shout out to my organization @culturestrike for co-hosting and sponsoring this dope event! Folks and photographers tagged in each photo