Housing Security for Adjua Greaves
Over the past five months of this new pandemic, I've seen more clearly than ever before how directly my mental health and ability to make valuable contributions to society are restricted by financial precarity I've been operating on top of for my entire life.
Racism, sexism, and capitalism have relentlessly delayed, disrupted, depressed, and poisoned my life for forty years. I'm sick of it.
The goal of this fundraiser is to provide a few month's grace of financial security that I can use to build up a service-based creative studio practice that will financially support me over the course of my life and positively impact the world at large.
The first $950 received will go directly to September 1st rent payment for a sublet that I am currently in. Future funds will go towards securing more stable housing, health insurance, and peace of mind to set my life on an increasingly safe and sustainable course through the creation of a digital editorial platform where I can continue, develop, and share the fruits of my ethnobotanical study.
I'm so proud of the creative work and community I've been able to create and engage alongside the chronic systemic intentional distress this genocidal gaslighting goblin nation state calls a dream. Envisioning what I'll be able create and contribute with the support of mutual aid efforts like this one is enough to make my spirit start to sing again.
Thank you for your help with this important matter.
Let's remake the world, and let's make it make sense.
#AGNG2020clearvision
ARTIST BIO
Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves (New York City, b. 1980) writes ethnobotanical literary criticism and collages detritus into heraldic devices. Greaves has most recently been published in THE BROOKLYN RAIL, and LETTERS TO THE FUTURE: BLACK WOMEN/RADICAL WRITING (Kore Press). Her chapbook CLOSE READING AS FORESTRY is published by Belladonna*. A publication with Ugly Duckling Presse is forthcoming, and a spring 2020 commission from Issue Project Room inspired Greaves to begin working with video. Formerly a Monday Night Reading Series curator at The Poetry Project, Site Director for Wendy's Subway, and an artist-in-residence at Rauschenberg Residency , she is currently based in New York City where she is Young Mother of The Florxal Review.