{Self Portrait 2012} My body is angry because the government wont codify Roe Vs. Wade and I have to be single-issue about it if I want anyone to listen. My body boils at anti-trans legislation, anti-Black state violence, non consensual surgeries on intersex infants, and incarcerated mothers. This is inconvenient to the legislative baby steps were forced to be grateful for. Because my heart breaks when an undocumented child gets detained, and when abetting Palestine is a complex discourse but abetting the Ukraine is not. >>> Im disgusted by the baby steps, the racist steps, the ableist steps, and the loss of time— the time we could spend compromising our comfort for a lifetime of revolution. >>> Im disgusted by the amount of effort I have to put towards my language, because my complex identity might silence the main issue.... Except complex identity is why were fighting for reproductive rights in the first place? >>> The US government’s disinterest in codifying Roe Vs Wade has nothing to do with a fetus; but the blanket motive to control marginalized bodies. As a nation: How do we guarantee reproductive justice when our consistency towards disability justice or racial justice can be so temperamental? How will we win back our rights when the culprit is not a single issue; but an entire system? <3 <3 . . . {Self Portrait 2012, Ink + Marker from Spit & Passion by #CristyRoad @feministpress + infographics from @adriennemareebrown + @decolonizethisplace thank you for the memes <3 } . . #croadcore #womensart #feministart #queerart #latinaartist #latinxart #punkart #emotionallyexhauated