Your Brain is a Bedroom

As part of a recent creative project, I’ve been rereading old journals and reflecting on my childhood and college experiences. In one of my journals from college, I found an entry where I wrote “your brain is a bedroom”. I still find truth in that statement. I keep the most private parts of me, what […]

Terrible Lizards

I made this in collaboration with an 8 year old on my caseload. He was constantly asking me to look up photos of cool dinosaurs on my laptop, so I taught him how to make a zine about them. We decided to each make one- he carefully selected photos and I helped him draw them. […]

Please God, Let This Summer End

(I want to stay in it forever) A collection of photos from the worst summer of my life. It was actually even worse than I can communicate, and I struggled so hard to get myself out of it. Thank god I’m free of it.

Not Even the Rain

This one is a love letter to the rain. A collage from the works of Claude Monet and E.E. Cummings, as well as my own poetry.

Brain Noise

In the last couple years, I’ve been experiencing more and more bouts of what a mental health professional might call “racing thoughts”. I’ve been non-affectionately referring to the experience as “Brain Noise”. It doesn’t happen everyday, but when it does, it usually lasts until I go to sleep again. My mind feels flooded with negative, […]

Self Hymn

Songs of praise aren’t just for religion, you know!

I am loudly, finally

I started the art for this zine a long time ago. The pathway and the rectangular shapes were created when I was a teenager, the spheres was a shape I drew often in doodles in college, and the self portrait of myself in oil pastel I made a couple of months ago, in my mid-twenties. […]

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Learning for Humans

Throughout the year, I’ve been continuing to learn (on purpose and on accident) how to actually support my students, reframe my thinking, and be a better educator. This learning happens on a continual cycle through daily interactions, conversations with other teachers and paraeducators, and reading and watching media that stretches my mind. The processing of […]

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