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Digital Fundraiser

Online launch: Monday, October 13th 12 PM
Until supplies last!
 
 

Buy hand-madegoods and support families impacted by the ICE raids! As Self Help Graphics & Eastside LEADS' 2025 Youth Artivism Internship cohort, we’ve been using SHG’s printmaking studio to craft pieces of art you can display or wear! Designed by Nat, Abril, Maddy, and Karen, items like t-shirt, crew necks, tank tops, patches, journal covers, and poster prints are on sale as part of this mutual aid online fundraiser. 100% of proceeds will support Eastside families who’ve been struggling to pay for rent, groceries, legal fees, etc. due to ICE raids. Funds will be given to vulnerable members of the Eastside LEADS coalition who have been nominated. At the same time, you’ll be able to support our creative endeavors as emerging Chicanx/Latinx youth artivists!

All the designs made by us, the Artivistas, are informed by intensive feedback from the Eastside LEADS coalition’s members. To incorporate the community into their designs, we presented our work-in-progress, which responds to the theme of “Raíces Sin Fronteras: Amar, Crecer, Luchar” or “Roots without Borders: Loving, Growing, and Fighting” and made revisions, resulting in works made by and for the community.

Do you want to support families on the Eastside impacted by the ICE raids? Please donate directly to our fundraiser!

We hope to host in-person fundraiser events in the near future, so please stay tuned for more information! These in-person events will have a special focus on promoting healing, reflection, and resistance!

 
Melba Martinez, Stay Strapped, 2024
$450.00

Melba Martinez
Stay Strapped, 2024
Serigraph, ed. Of 50
30 x 22 in.

Through the work Stay Strapped, the artist Melba Martinez interrogates what self and community safety look like for brown queer bodies. With fascism on the rise, Martinez revisits the Pachuca as a symbol of protection for themselves and the people surrounding them, allowing the artist to bring forth different aspects of their practice together. The artist transformed herself into a tough-as-nails character through makeup, costume, and props, mirroring her resilient communities and their relentless fight against oppression. While playing with double entendre to bring a layer of lightness and comedy to the piece, Stay Strapped embraces the Phrase, “Not gay as in happy, but queer as in FUCK YOU!”