edition of 5 plus 2 AP

“Your absence has folded time for me – my body remembers the relief of recognition I felt in your presence. This world makes misfits of brown trans queer crip magic. Living out of step with global dysfunction takes its toll. How easily they threw your body onto the pyre of evidence that declares this system broken.”

– TextaQueen, Bollywouldn’t

ID: A dusk photo of an art deco apartment block in South London. A Bollywood mural lights its side, a hand rendered image featuring a very cloudy sky in various shades from deep azure to pale blue. Across the sky beams a bright image like the bat signal. The symbol combines a person in a wheelchair holding a cane like a rifle, overlaid with the circle of a rifle’s target – akin to the Public Enemy logo. In the foreground is a large block letter title ‘NILA’, the letters filled with a city skyline sunset in graphic reds and yellows. Sitting atop the letters is a medium to dark brown skinned south Asian femme wearing a red and silver trimmed sari in a power wheelchair holding a red cane like a rifle. Nila wears gold trainers, thick black glasses, chain link choker, red Bindi, red lipstick, two black braids, and an enigmatic smile.