Climate justice, gender violence, extinction, Palestine, LGBTQIA+ rights, Transgender rights, gender equality, abortion rights, Black Lives Matter, and voting rights…. I have protested in the streets in multiple countries, exercising my right to assemble, my right to protest, and my freedom of speech as a stakeholder and as an ally. I believe that change comes from the ground up, from community-led movements, not from the top down. Governments only listen when the people take action.
There are many ways to organize, to protest, and to build movements. I choose to engage in several forms: through art, through my humanitarian work, through my writing, through sit-ins and demonstrations, and through protest in solidarity with the community. I believe all of these movements are intertwined; we cannot separate climate justice from Palestine from gender violence, from trans rights, voting rights from abortion rights, and from the general overall anti-war movement that focuses on decolonization. These issues are not isolated, just as we are not isolated from them as individual humans; they are part of an interconnected web of social justice struggles that require us to recognize our liberation weaves across borders and identity politics.
"No one is free until all of us are free."