Have you ever been in the type of situation where your friends decide to make you a GoFundMe? If you have, you know it can be almost as rough emotionally to ask for money as it is to need it. This world is crushing the most beautiful and generous people and right now, our beloved Dominique Duroseau, sculptor and architect, poet, performance artist, public intellectual (and so much more) has found herself on that ledge. If you've ever stood on it, looking at homelessness and hunger yawning in front of you, feeling that nausea of despair, you know you can only get to safety with a little support.

The harder things get, the more tempting it is to hoard what little money we each may have individually. But we CAN come together and make sure no one--not least of all DOMINIQUE DUROSEAU!!!!--falls. Please give what you can depending on where you stand, and know that karma and community will bring it back around to you if and when necessary.

Dom is in need of support for medical bills, moving costs/rent, and more.

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Dominique Duroseau is a Newark-based artist born in Chicago, raised in Haiti. Her interdisciplinary practice explores themes of racism, socio-cultural issues, and existential dehumanization.

https://www.instagram.com/domduro/

http://www.dominiqueduroseau.com/

On her work, Duroseau writes:

"I create narratives.

I document, cross-examine, create cultural hybridizations.

I de-contextualize/re-contextualize texts, topics, and issues on Black Culture’s constant striving within today’s society.

My process is part isolation for research, design and constructing employing multiple techniques; part interactive/participatory (audience). The majority of my work is generated in response to research, observation, dialogues, people’s actions/ reactions/ thoughts; occasionally participants’ ideas can become the work itself.

The work addresses issues that have remained persistent, morphed, and folds in residuals of colonial influence, women's issues, and criticism of imperialist white-supremacist patriarchal cultures. I work within the cusp of my cultures as Haitian, American, and African Diaspora, then link unresolved issues across time as a political strategy. This takes into account the nuances of language and mannerisms, while illuminating social issues and injustice, depicting contemporary struggles against indifference, coded vernacular, and entrenched economic dispositions."