ANNIKA HANSTEENIZORA
who: Annika (she/they) is a designer and poet that uses her medium to explore intersections of Blackness, queerness, pleasure and communal care. They currently head creative at Ethel’s Club, a social and wellness club designed to celebrate people of color. what: My work often explores communal care. In that theme, I designed a skill trade sheet that can be used to share resources, encourage communal learning, celebrate collaboration, and to find new people to build and create with. why: We need to imagine and implement structures outside of the violent methods offered by capitalism. We need to hold up and support one another in order to pull the futures we dream of into the present. Skill trading offers trust, vulnerability, compassion, and connection, traits I believe are essential to moving us towards radical societal changes.
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