Pride season artwork created in collaboration with GSA Network & OurTransYouth
Inspired by Harlem Renaissance painter Aaron Douglas’ 1934 work “Aspects of Negro Life: Slavery through Reconstruction” this piece entitled “PRIDE” seeks to align itself with this cultural history of civil unrest and social justice, reassert Prides origins as a demand for equality led by black and brown trans womxn and ultimately center our trans youth who are both some of the most vulnerable and overlooked of our community, and still so actively assuming leadership roles and honoring the legacies of our forebearers. “PRIDE” puts forth three core tenets to hold onto as this season finds its way back to its roots. To consolidate safe space for ourselves refusing outside policing or intervention. To honor the memory of our siblings lost and remember the legacies left by our elders and ancestors, and finally to dismantle the larger systems never meant to house us and incapable of serving us. Clearing the way for new and better ways of being.