My friend Will wrote an essay about what's been going on the last few months here in MPLS, and it is beautiful, and absolutely worth your time... (And don't be fooled by the NY Times headline; it may well make you tear up... ...but in a good way.)

#sunlight #blueskyartshow #selfportrait

remembering hope #blueskyartshow #clouds

Outrage has grown nationwide over the violent and sometimes deadly tactics used by federal immigration officers in communities across the country. https://to.pbs.org/3Ma7dPb

ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.

I could watch jellyfish all day. #stunday

#blueskyartshow #alternating

the way smoke sits in the air like a broken spider after every bang and sparkle memory of ignorance and jerk in my chest #poetry #fourthofjuly

Does anyone know where the latest #selfportraitsunday promps are? They aren't listed in the feed anymore.

light does things

We have a constitutional obligation to provide oversight. To ASK QUESTIONS. And for our questions to be met with handcuffs is UNACCEPTABLE.

B-sides

On the edge of who they think I am and who I want to be. #selfportraitsunday #ontheedge

I'm having another mental breakdown — but is it? in some places there are loud groans and torn clothes with every stab of grief here, we hold it all in until our hearts fail make ourselves "okay" until we don't you call me crazy but I say living #blueskyartshow #lightandshadow #selfportrait

Making Space #firstbook #poetry #photography #selfportrait

My book is finally available for purchase! It took me 2 years to make, 5 months to decide to print and find a printer, 4 more months to finalize the design and get printed, 2 more months to find a new printer and redesign the cover...and now I have the final copy! #poetry #selfportrait #firstbook

Where are the leaders today pursuing a better future for all?

Literally taking from the poor to give to the rich. I am so full of grief and anger.

Having fun with personality quizzes. openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) Mount Kamaga Hida 1933. #japanese #woodblock

clouds always stun me #stunday #clouds #midwestsunset

me #lines #blueskyartshow

layers #multiplicity #selfportraitsunday #artofselfportraiture

#laughoutloud #selfportraitsunday #artofselfportraiture

"Once you give up the idea that we are all equal before the law and have the right to due process, you have given up the whole game."

what i need right now #peaceful #blueskyartshow

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus. -Turkish proverb

Half fear, half confidence. #artofselfportraiture #selfportraitsunday #half&half

where are all the #kansascity people who care? like where are ya'll gathering? i need some community...not in a church

Wrote a poem about a difficult thing that I wish didn't have to be so difficult. #poetry #poem #nonbinary #trans #ally #makingspaceforgrief

looking for more songs for my #fuckcapitalism playlist #music #goodsongs

Another day

#weird #poetry

I miss art for art's sake.

Here is a #poem about all the things I never said but should have, from my new book #makingspace. #poetry #no #books #firstbook

"We won’t even know about the new deaths, because all the data collection was supported by U.S.A.I.D." It will be years before we understand the size of this crisis--and we may only understand it when highly resistant forms of TB come home to roost in rich countries.

#selfportraitsunday #riseandshine A photo from my new self portrait book Making Space. paigeburrows.com/makingspace

I've been sick for too long. I'm feeling the weight of it today. #chronicillness

Rainbows in the wild

I made a #poetry and #selfportrait #photography book. It is pieces of me in book form. Soft and piercingly honest. A deep, humble expression of my disjointed self. I wrote it for me. Now I'm sharing it with you. Presales open paigeburrows.com/makingspace

I hope the #storm inside me looks this cool. #clouds

All my emotions are legitimate.

sometimes to take care of myself I sit under a blanket and notice the light that comes through. #poetry

I wish I had a physical space where I could grieve with others and find hope together. I wish I could connect with people over what we still love, and the good we still want to pursue. There is a lot I am grieving and a lot I still love. What kind of community are you needing right now? #community

am I still a photographer if I haven't been photographing..

even the birds are scared fly away if you can i'll stand, but will collapse with one shot one shot for each of us and we'll all be gone