tattoos

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/

Dear ones,

The fires continue to
burn at Standing Rock and all along the body of the Black Snake. New
fires are being lit each day as Indigenous resistance spreads. We are
gathering at our own points among the growing constellations to offer support
and fuel the fires of front lines as Queer and 2Spirit artists, organizers and
healers in solidarity.

We invite you to join
us through directly contributing to this fundraiser and sharing our work with
your own constellations of people until the blaze of our resistance is truly
unquenchable.

Many generous and
wonderful artists, makers and healers have contributed incredible services,
hand crafted gifts and works of art to this raffle in support of the 2Spirit
Warrior Society.

Works include limited
edition prints by artists Noel’le Longhaul, beyon wren moor and Annie Banks, a
handcrafted book by Emi Lynn Holler, original stick and poke tattoos by Kiala
and photographic prints by Amber Bracken and Wulfgang Zapf. Tender hearts
have also contributed hand made clothing, massages, herbal consultations and
more. The combined monetary value of all raffle items is over $2000 in
so-called canadian dollars.

All proceeds raised
through this raffle will go directly to the purchase of a 4×4 truck, trailer
and yurt for members of the 2Spirit Warrior Society to support their continued
struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

To view the prizes,
purchase tickets and learn more about the 2Spirit Warrior Society and the
ongoing resistance to the Black Snake visit:

2spiritwsraffle.tumblr.com

Tickets are $5 CAD.
The raffle runs until midnight on February 13th, winners will be drawn on
February 14th. Only 2500 tickets will be sold across Turtle Island.

No surrender.
Defend the Water. Defend the Sacred.

Love and Rage,

-Voices: Indigenous
Women on the Front Lines Speak, voicesbook.tumblr.com

the UVic Pride
Collective, uvicpride.ca

and the Queers for
Indigenous Territory Defense Crew.