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grafera

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Lifelong Digital Artist / Emerging Oil Painter
Queer • Anarchist • Anti-Perfectionism Action

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PDX: If you've been wanting to get more involved in jail support, but aren't sure how to start, this event is for you! Flyer downloads available here ↓

🔗 https://grafera.zone/archive/illustrations/cjs-onboarding-flyer.html

An event flyer that reads: Community Jail Support Onboarding. Info Session / Q&A / Shift Sign-up. September 28th at 1pm, Colonel Summers Park. + Free supplies, to get you started! The flyer is lettered and illustrated in a graphic style, with hands arranging a display of distro supplies.
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I love doing jail support because it feels like an efficient and powerful use of my care. All I have do is get some supplies, coordinate with a friend to meet downtown, and show up ready to be kind. Suddenly I’m making a massive impact on people’s lives at a critical moment, completely autonomously.

When I encounter people walking out of jail disoriented and worried about how they’re going to contact loved ones, find their way, and get their basic needs met, and I see their demeanor shift after I offer them solutions, that’s all the reinforcement I need to keep doing it every week.

Cops send people off with a complete disregard for their survival and wellbeing, and cruelty is the point. We can stop the trauma of incarceration in its tracks by meeting people the moment they exit and showing them we care what happens to them. Come out tomorrow (9/28) and learn how to start!

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These three oil paintings will be featured in an art exhibition and fundraiser auction next week in Portland. DM me for details!

🔗 https://grafera.zone/archive/blog/protest-landscapes.html

Timelapse video showing the painting process of three protest landscapes.

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You can still bid on my paintings in the fundraiser auction through Friday! Ask me how!