Tag: death
Calling OUT Indie-QUEER!
Changing Voice in the Children's Book Industry
Two Books that Honor Mexican Heritage AND LGBTQ Experience Death In the Family and When We Love Someone We Sing to Them will be published in 2017 by Reflection Press. Written and illustrated by me, Death In the Family is not a Dia de los Muertos book with cultural references and …
QUEER ETERNAL
finding our way through Orlando
ORLANDO tú eres mi otro yo
dancing in the garden
Not last night but the night before I was woken up by something that has never happened before. Apparently I had spontaneously vomited in my sleep, just a little, but enough to start me gagging and choking. I woke up disoriented and a little shock-y because I couldn’t breathe and …
A Death in the Family: Francisco X Alarcón
longing and authenticity
1/17/16 Francisco X. Alarcón let go of his body January 15. His passing is moving me very much. I am finishing drawings on our latest book together. A book of days. I look at spending the next few months very intimately sitting with Francisco as the arte unfolds. I am …
the edge of death…10 years later
the release of my new fine art website as I reflect on 10 years after healing from heavy metal poisioning
life art death art life art death
dia de los muertos
today i find myself falling deeply into inner ritual. it’s not a conscious act. it’s much more than that. it’s my bones. the blood pumping through the muscle that is my heart. my teeth, my hair, my dress, my BEing, my life, my every breath. it’s as if a hidden …