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To catch up whoever is reading this I just dropped my first set of clothes with the Skribl Collective!
The drop is named PRIMARY and its theme/ethos or whatever is about embodying our creativity to the fullest and embracing the new path of life we’re set on following it. Your new baby steps on this sort of expression could be called your new PRIMARY school of life.
When thinking about everything that lead up to this and how we came to even start Skribl it was simply born out of a passion for something more.
The day we came together to make this something official I asked the other co-founders if they knew of any creative collectives in our area because I wanted to communicate with other like minded creatives, they did not know any. So I said let’s start our own!
And then the Skribl Collective was born.
I needed to be creative somehow, all I knew I wanted for this was to platform artist of the area and show the beauty that creativity had to offer. But throwing myself at the wall and seeing what sticks only works for so long. In this time I fell in love with the camera and planted my seeds for my films I want to make. But slowly we were coming together to create PRIMARY. We had already entered the school but just hadn’t titled it yet.
The entrepreneurial spirit that lay dormant in me already knew what my dream was. I wanted to start a non profit based around emotional intelligence and healing on an individual and collective scale. This passion was really seeded into my heart after committing myself to healing my own generational traumas to the best of my ability and also after reading ‘My Grandmother’s Hands’ By Resmaa Menakem.
That book was really revolutionary for how I approached all situations in my life and aided me in my forgiving attitude when handling situations. The most important chat from the book was about how trauma is internalized for both those that inflict it and receive it. And with that knowledge an emphasis on healing on both sides of the aisle would need to occur if we want to be done with what we’ve experienced as a collective to move on into something better.
The healing for myself that went on in tandem with this book really let me forgive myself and my past for the unfair life that was presented to me. It let me grow and blossom to the person I am now.
With the many trials and wonders that come with deep healing I wanted others to heal too. I knew I wanted others to feel at peace with themselves and provide the expression to the repressed unexpressed sides to ourselves.
Over the course of this year the answer became stunningly obvious for how I could achieve my dream! By being creative.
It doesn’t matter how it comes to be expressed but creative expression is the most available and intuitively understood method for healing that can come for all.
Individual creativity for self healing and collective creativity for community healing.
I don’t know where this journey will lead me but I know that I will pursue this no matter what. There is no other option but live with a fiery creative spirit that leads to inspired action.
I’ll show you the beauty of life that has been forgotten.
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