Hi, I’m Bianca — a queer, Japanese-Lebanese-Syrian, Artist, Professor, & Creative Strategist living in Los Angeles. In case you are new here or if a reminder could help, this newsletter began as an exploration of figuring things out, one day at a time. Upgrade to a paid subscription to make sure you never miss out on the really good stuff.
Making Time closes this Saturday, November 4th
This week is your last chance to check out my solo show over at the William Grant Still Art Center. Make sure to grab a copy of the free community reading guide and exhibition zines while you’re there.
Making Time • October 7th - November 4th • 12pm - 5pm
@ The William Grant Still Art Center
One Institute and The William Grant Still Art Center for CIRCA: Queer Histories Festival present Making Time, by Bianca Nozaki-Nasser. Instead of pretending to wrestle with the tragedy of longing to belong, what magic might exist in realizing that time can be as flexible as we are? Making Time asks viewers to see time as a material and a starting point to reimagine structures, institutions, ourselves, and our relationships.
🕊 Find more information on the November 4th march here.
Unable to make it to DC? You can still show your support and endorse the march here.
⚡️ Over the last year, I have revisited Dante Stewart’s Little Experiments of Liberation countless times. Stewart traverses the many sides of heartbreak that comes from witnessing systemic violence: the need to mobilize grief and its overwhelming paralysis, the necessity and variety of resistance work, stillness not to be confused with passivity, and the tensions between hypervisibility and the need for self-preservation.
Unincumbered love is an impossibility. We carry both the burden and the gift of our humanity. Doomscrolling and the shiny dance floor we make of the earth are both ours. Fast-paced heart rates and slowed moments of embrace are both ours. It is best summed up in this line: grieve as you live, live as you grieve, and every moment in between don’t forget to move a little.
I hope that you read Dante’s essay, and it provides you a bit of comfort.
🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️ So dope all the work you do and you being the awesome person you are.