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@valefacent.bsky.social
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They/Fae
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Indigenous | Lipan Apache / Ndé | Chicane
adhd | Two-Spirit | Indigiqueer | Pansexual | ENBY
👩🏾‍🎨 Silkscreen Printmaker | Photographer

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@littlebadger.bsky.social I work for a Native non-profit and we got a little lending library for community last year. When they were conceptualizing they asked our employees for Native book recommendations. Naturally, I recommended all your books!! 😁💕✨🪶
July 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Me and the gang heard you was talking shit
A group photo (illustration) of She-ra and friends laughing.
July 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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2S LIVES ARE SACRED

A poster I made for a demo day at work!

Pink Sunrise: Joy and Brighter Days
Chevron: The many directions we've had to take to keep ourselves safe
Feathers: #TwoSpirit community / Masculine and Feminine energies

#NativeAmerican #Indigenous #Apache #Printsky
A picture of a poster with the phrases, "Two Spirit Lives Are Sacred", and "You Are Vital to This Hoop". A Native Fancy Shawl dancer moves towards the sunrise, signifying brighter days ahead.
June 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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"Nunca es tarde para la revolución (collectiva o personal), porque todos tenemos algo por qué luchar!" - Ritmo Cosmico
A screen shot of an Instagram post by Ritmo Cosmico promoting their latest release.
June 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Enacting birdie protocol... Take a birdie, leave a birdie. Birdie photo by me! 🐦
Hummingbird perched atop a branch with a blue sky background.
April 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Without downloading any new images, describe your gender.
April 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Happy Trans Day of Visibility!!!!⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖔𝖙𝖆 𝕻𝖔𝖗 𝖁𝖎𝖉𝖆
(Butch For Life) / Self Portrait
ENBY Empowerment!! 💛🤍💜🖤

Print #4, Winter Quarter 2022

#enby #nonbinary #femgender #trans #transgender #indigiqueer #twospirit #transdayofvisibility
Screen print poster in non-binary colors.The center square is purple with the central figure flexing their bicep with one arm and the other on their hip. They are framed by a yellow heart and the words "my existence is resistance". They wear a shirt that says "machota por vida" which means butch for life in Spanish and a hat with they/them pronouns on the bill.
March 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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New addition to the family! 🪴😍

#vittatapeacock
#vittatacalathea
#calathea
#houseplants
#plantsky
March 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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#marantasilverband
#calatheaburlemarx
#houseplants
#indoorgatden
#plantsky
#prayerplant
#maranta
#calathea
Flowering maranta silver band plant. Flowering maranta silver band plant. Budding calathea burle marx plant. Budding calathea burle marx plant.
March 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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#RXBandits #theresignationtour #rxb
A crowd of people with hands in the air line the bottom of this image with three musicians on the stage in the background. Six musicians on a stage playing to a crowd of people. Five musicians on stage.
March 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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First time beading a hat. Learning with the wrap stitch. 💕✨
Black wide brim hat with two strands of red beads, a needle, and thread.
March 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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#kurtcobain #nirvana #feminist #grunge
March 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Work trip! 🌴🌆🌴
Sunset with a pool, palm trees, and a harbor in view.
February 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Some photos I took from last year's first ever Native Heritage Parade at the Capitol.

#native #indigenous #nativesky #mmip #nomorestolensisters #nativeamericanheritagemonth
Young Native girls marching in a parade. Women marching holding a Justice for MMIP banner. Native girls set up their float for the Native Heritage Parade. Native Sister's Circle hold up their banner as they march in the parade.
February 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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#passionflower
Pixel 8 Pro

#bloomscrolling #photography
February 10, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Print No. 12

Badger = our creation story, #ndé ( #lipanapache for people) = Peyote Medicine caretakers, Eagle feathers connect us to Great Spirit, #iyane’e (Buffalo) gifted to Ndé by Great Spirit (in some tribes dreaming with white buffalo is a #twospirit sign).

#nativesky #printsky
A silkscreen print featuring a light gray (Lipan Apache) rider, a white buffalo, a smudge stick, peyote, eagle feathers, and a badger. Above the badger head are the words Lipan Apache.
February 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ "𝕼𝖚𝖊𝖊𝖗 𝖀𝖙𝖔𝖕𝖎𝖆" 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Queer Patron Saints Xochipili/Xochiquetzal as Nahuales. See their heads peering down out of their beaks.

#mexica #teteotl #nahuales #queer #twospirit #indigenous #nativesky #indigiqueer #nativeamerican #silkscreen #serigraphy #queerprintmaker
A poster depicting two multicolored parrots among cacao leaves. Out of their beaks you can see a head peering down. They represent Mexicayolt Teteotl (Gods) Xochipili and Xochiquetzal, the patron saints of Queer Mexica. They whisper sacred breath and say "Feel hope and take flight" and "On the wings of Queer Utopia".
February 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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#queerliberation #queer #trans #socialjustice #queermural #lgbtqia+ #queerpeopleofcolor
Progressive Trans flag mural with a social justice fist in the middle.
February 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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𝓔𝓵 𝓒𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓸 𝓭𝓮𝓵 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓸 𝓭𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓼 𝓛𝓲𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓮𝓼
Home Print No. 1

Print #13 of my career.

Read the full description here:
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Silkscreen poster titled El Cementerio del Barrio de Los Lipanes or The Cemetery in the Lipan Neighborhood. Central to the image is an eagle flying over head carrying a banner naming the cemetery. Out of its beak are the sacred words, "que en paz descansen" or may they rest in peace. Below the banner are three crosses representing the only marked graves in the cemetery linking them to eagle staff bearer Christina Hernandez (Lipan Apache). Adorned with pink hedgehog cactus and sentinel stones to show the natural landscape and traditional manmade protection efforts of the graves.
February 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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𝕿𝖜𝖔 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖎𝖙 𝕾𝖔𝖑𝖎𝖉𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖞 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝕱𝖆𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖊𝖓

Highlights the intersection of #TwoSpirit and #Palestinian resistance. Uplifting stories of courage and connection, reminding us of the power of advocacy across shared landscapes of resilience.

Made in collaboration with Jasmeen Kharsa.

#BAAITS #indigisky
Original full color Two Spirit Solidarity with Falasteen silkscreen print on paper. 18 by 24 inches. Central image includes the phrase two Spirits for a free liberated فِلَسْطِين‎/Palestine/Falasteen. Flanked by two columns on either side with the words Indigenous on the left and Solidarity on the right. The progressive two Spirit flag and Palestinian flag with a peace dove waving in the wind.
January 30, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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My photo of the Palestinian flag on J street in Sacramento, CA.
Taken with a DSLR, Cannon EOS 80D.
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#landback #indigenousresistance #freepalestine #fromtherivertothesea
Mural of the Palestinian flag.
January 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝
𝐄𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬

This is the art I made after reflecting on the sterilizations that child bearing people were subjected to by ICE in 2020.

Print #5, Winter Quarter 2022
January 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Trans flag editions for BAAITS powwow on Saturday!! Made these at a demo I hosted in collaboration with DecolonizeMarket and friends.
Central image, Two-Spirit and Palestinian flags with the words Two-Spirit for a free and liberated فلسطين/Palestine/Falasteen interwoven. Flanked by columns with the words Indigenous on the left and Solidarity on the right. In the Palestinian flag there is a peace dove with an olive branch. An image of multiple Two-Spirit solidarity prints on a park table. An image of a printmaking set up showing the poster just printed.
January 28, 2025 at 12:15 AM