COMMUNITY FLASH
NOTE: Community Flash is currently on hold due to COVID-19.
Starting spring 2019, I have begun offering 4-5 slots/month of seasonal, repeatable flash that go back 100% to community-based efforts/organizations. Every season I’ll be picking three community-based efforts/orgs to donate to, and will be dividing up the money evenly between them once the season has ended. New flash will be released at the beginning of the next season!
Instead of concentrating everything into one donation day a month, this will allow for some flexibility in booking of appointments, and provide a structured, rhythmic way for me to integrate this precious practice of throwing economic weight behind all the folks out there doing powerful community work. For the last round of community flash this summer, we raised a total of $1730 for Real Rent Duwamish, Camp Ten Trees, and the Wing Luke Museum!! Thank you to all who gave generously in support of this project :’) I feel very grateful to have a mechanism for showing up for community that feels so joyful and connected. I hope we can all keep scheming together!!
Background
This project had been rooting in my mind for a long time, and it has been very lifegiving to get it going!! The essence of my origin story as a tattooer really boils down to members of my largely QTPOC community offering up their trust, stories, n literal skin(!!) again n again for me to grow my practice up out of, and it feels very moving to me to be in a position where I have enough support in my own practice to be able to close out each season by returning a whole lot of gratitude, and also some money, to community efforts that feel important for me to support.
Winter 2019/2020
December 20th - March 19th
All booked! Thank you so much for your interest and support <3 I hope that even if you weren’t able to book one of these slots that you still consider donating to these incredible organizations!
— Avery
Winter 2019/2020 Lineup
Soul Fire Farm
From their website:
Soul Fire Farm is a BIPOC-centered community farm committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system. We raise and distribute life-giving food as a means to end food apartheid. With deep reverence for the land and wisdom of our ancestors, we work to reclaim our collective right to belong to the earth and to have agency in the food system. We bring diverse communities together on this healing land to share skills on sustainable agriculture, natural building, spiritual activism, health, and environmental justice. We are training the next generation of activist-farmers and strengthening the movements for food sovereignty and community self-determination.
The Loveland Foundation
From their website:
The Loveland Foundation is committed to showing up for communities of color in unique and powerful ways, with a particular focus on Black women and girls. Our resources and initiatives are collaborative and they prioritize opportunity, access, validation, and healing. With the barriers affecting access to treatment by members of diverse ethnic and racial groups, Loveland Therapy Fund will provide financial assistance to Black women and girls nationally seeking therapy. Through our partnerships with Therapy for Black Girls, National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network, Talkspace and Open Path Collective, Loveland Therapy Fund pilot cohort will have access to a comprehensive list of mental health professionals across the country providing high quality, culturally competent services to Black women and girls.
Warehouse Worker Resource Center
From their website:
Warehouse Worker Resource Center is a nonprofit organization founded in 2011 dedicated to improving working conditions in the warehouse industry in Southern California. We focus on education, advocacy and action to change poor working conditions in the largest hub of warehousing in the country.
We assist workers dealing with issues of health and safety, wage theft and workers’ compensation when injured. We also serve as a community center for workers, family members and supporters interested in knowing their rights, joining with other workers to share experiences and learn from each other, and building a movement for workers’ rights in the Inland Empire and throughout Southern California.