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.ALL BODIES DESERVE .CREATING THE FUTURE OF US

A Letter to the ReaderEvery body should have opportunities to experience joy and pleasure,to celebrate themselves, and see bodies of all types and gendersrepresented in the world around them. Every body should feel safeand reassured that there is enough room for us all. In a gender justworld, people of all genders have power, resources, safety and feellike they belong.Art helps us imagine this gender just world and helps make it a reality.More than ever, we see how imagination brings to life the fight forracial justice and the way we protect one another during the COVID-19pandemic. This coloring book, All Bodies Deserve: Creating the Futureof Us, sparks conversation and creativity with prompts to get you, yourfamily, and community thinking about changes that are worth imaginingand making come true.Eight diverse artists were commissioned to illustrate coloring pages forAll Bodies Deserve: Creating the Future of Us, showing what this futurelooks like to them. You can learn more about their art and their storiesat the back of this book. Each of their drawings centers joy and diversecommunities and was inspired by the ideas of abundance—that we shouldall have what we need to thrive; that people can be different and stillequally valued; that we need to care for ourselves, our communities, andthe world; and that we can raise curious, happy, healthy identities, andfamilies.In partnership with the Women’s Foundation of California, The Center forCultural Power invites you to join this conversation and imagine a colorful,welcoming future where all bodies deserve love, care, and recognition. Wehave the power to envision what our future holds.We’d love for you to share your creations, dialogue with us directly, or tagus on Instagram and Twitter @culturestrike and on Facebook, The CenterFor Cultural Power.With you in creativity, celebration, and a future where every body thrives,The Center for Cultural Powerwww.CulturalPower.org

ARTIST IMAGE WITH BORDERALLOW TO COLOR IMAGE WITHOUTGETTING INTO THE FOLD OF TH EBOOKSydney Joslin-KnappIG @thewindiscrying

What makes a close friend a trusted and safe companion? Draw what these traits look like to you.

Michaela OteriIG @ogrefairydoodles

Cece CarpioIG @cececarpio

Draw and feel what joy looks like to you.

Breena NuñezIG @breenache

Chucha MarquezIG @la chucha

Draw and feel what freedom looks like to you.

Micah BazantIG @micahbazant

Sydney Joslin-KnappIG @thewindiscrying

Draw symbols or a picture that shows what a healthy community looks like.

Francis MeadIG @girasoulll

Michaela OteriIG @ogrefairydoodles

What is a positive saying you live by? Can you draw or design that saying into a logo?

Chucha MarquezIG @la chucha

If you could help the planet in any way, what would you draw? Draw it!

Ashley LukashevskyIG @ashlukadraws

Chucha MarquezIG @la chucha

Draw and feel what respect looks like to you.

Breena NuñezIG @breenache

Micah BazantIG @micahbazant

Water is fluid. Draw your future self immersed in its fluidity.

Ashley LukashevskyIG @ashlukadraws

What do you think creates safe loving homes? Draw a home you think everyone should have.

Francis MeadIG @girasoulll

Micah BazantIG @micahbazant

Cece CarpioIG @cececarpio

Draw what you ate today and its connection to the land.

Michaela OteriIG @ogrefairydoodles

Chucha MarquezIG @la chucha

AcknowledgementsAll Bodies Deserve: Creating the Future of Us is a coloring book project ofThe Center for Cultural Power, an organization that inspires and mobilizesartists and culture makers to imagine a world where power is distributedequitably and we live in harmony with nature. We commissioned eightartists to create artworks inspired by the Gender Justice Story Platformdeveloped by Story at Scale, an effort to research, craft, test, and delivera story strategy to advance gender justice. We define gender justice asa movement to end systemic and interpersonal practices of patriarchy,transphobia, and homophobia with the goal to create a world wherepeople of all genders have equitable access to power, resources, and asense of community and belonging.Much gratitude to the talented artists commissioned for this project:Ashley Lukashevsky, Breena Nuñez, Cece Carpio, Chucha Marquez, FrancisMead, Micah Bazant, Michaela Oteri, and Sydney Joslin-Knapp. Thank youfor your imagination and creativity to envision a future where all gendersare honored, celebrated, and included.Thank you to our designer Innosanto Nagara and our copywriter GayleRomasanta for creating a cohesive and delightful coloring book. Also, abig thanks to Community Printers for being a partner in producing it.Thank you to The Women’s Foundation of California and The CultureChange Fund for funding this project and supporting artists to reimaginegender justice for our time.Lastly, we acknowledge and appreciate all the gender justice warriorswhose shoulders we stand on and those who continue to do powerfulwork that advances gender justice.We give special thanks to everyone who helped produce this coloringbook including Lisa Evans, Julie Kuwabara-Lacson, Marie Shier, FaviannaRodriguez, Kat Evasco, Renee Fazzari, crystal marich, Haleh Hatami, BiaVieira, and members of the Culture Change Fund.

Artist StatementsAshley LukashevskyCece CarpioI’m an illustrator visual artist born and raisedin Honolulu, Hawaii. I’m currently based in LosAngeles, occupied Tongva land. I use illustrationand visual art as a tool to strengthen socialmovements for racial justice, immigrant justice,climate justice, mental health, and LGBTQIA liberation. I think that in order to tear down harmfulsystems, we need to be able to envision a worldwithout them. I’m trying to draw what that worldlooks like.Indigenous Peoples stand with Black Lives. Wecry, fight, and celebrate with and for Black Lives.We need to protect and expand investmentsinto our communities and defund military policeso our Black relatives can combat the colonialpatriarchal and capitalist system that oppressesour communities. Together we stand and togetherwe fight.In a gender-just future, we are liberated from allbinaries that dictate gender and false senses ofsafety. I wanted to depict a world in which people,specifically queer people of color, are free to love,explore, and be nurtured.Breena NuñezGender justice makes me feel hopeful to be ina moment where queer folks are feeling moreliberated to exist in many ways beyond the genderbinary. Nonbinaryness and gender nonconformityhave always been a part of a culture’s narrativebut have been figuratively swept under the rug ofcolonization in order for us to feel less attached tothese stories and gender identities. Participatingin this coloring book means giving an idea toQTPOC of all ages of how gender can presentitself and how I envision my family nurturing ourfuture children’s gender experience alongsidenature because their gender identity will be just asvaluable and valid as nature’s existence.For poor communities of color, abundance canmean basic access to human rights and resourcessuch as a shelter, food, clean drinking water,and clean air. We have enough resources in ourworld, and if these resources are fairly distributed,everyone can have all that we need.Chucha MarquezBeing able to share parts of myself through thisproject feels liberating. It wasn’t until my earlyadulthood that I learned about non-binary andnon-conforming gender experiences, finallyhaving a way to articulate and identify my ownexperiences navigating gender as a non-binaryperson. To me, a gender-just future looks like afuture where gender is fluid and expansive and aplace of exploration instead of rigidity. I personallyuse “They, Them, Theirs” pronouns, and I wantedto celebrate how empowering it feels to haveautonomy and choose for myself how folks refer tome, to respect me for who I am. Non-binary peopleare not a monolith, we perform gender in variousways, we don’t look the same, have a multitude ofpronouns that we choose for ourselves.For me, water has always been a really powerfulmetaphor for gender. Like water, I believe genderto be fluid, sacred, and abundant. And, like water,systems of power like colonization and capitalismhave exploited gender, sold it, stolen it andtarnished it. Our bodies are mostly water, watersustains life, and, like our genders, we must reclaimit and protect it.

Francis MeadMichaela OteriI drew two smiling kids surrounded by the Earth,with their hands on each others’ hearts. A babydeer sleeps peacefully next to them and a bunnyappears. Trees surround them with a waterfall anda rainbow. Everything is in balance.A person farming their own garden who is workingalongside a disabled person, sharing their food.Their child is in the background, wearing a cannulaconnected to an oxygen tank and is also working.Everyone is smiling, no one is at a disadvantage.I drew a multiracial and intergenerationalcommunity scene with children gardening whilesunflowers bloom in abundance around them.Sunflowers are a reflection of resilience and beautythat I see in all our people and communities.Two people walking together as equals. One is ina wheelchair while the other walks beside them.This is a story of people who are different but treateach other equally.Micah BazantFor “Sustaining Forever,” I illustrated the balancingact needed to sustain life, society, the planetthrough an image of two disabled people of color.They are sustained by their loving relationshipwith each other and with plants, animals, andinsects, as well as access devices like a wheelchair,a ventilator, a plastic straw, and a cane. Disabilityjustice offers a vision of a world that centerscollective access and liberation and leaves nobodybehind.During this pandemic, poor people are beingsacrificed while the 1% reaps billions. I drew anintergenerational Latinx family, with a mom who isan essential worker, whose neighborhood has beenhard hit by coronavirus. I imagined the incrediblerelief that they (and all of us) would feel if we wokeup and had Medicare for All and a universal basicincome.In thinking about how being human means beingdifferent from others while all hold equal value, Iimagined a world where Black trans women andfemmes can be in community and in public withoutfear of violence, harassment, and discrimination. Aworld where Black trans women and femmes arecherished and safe.These people are finding safety at the localcommunity center. There are stairs to the rightwhich an abled person is climbing and there is aramp to the left, showing accessibility to enter thebuilding. One person stands at the top of the stairsand another looks back towards the viewer. Theperson in the foreground is using crutches and willuse the ramp.Sydney Joslin-KnappDifferent, Equally Valued immediately promptedme to think about my mother’s garden. Our homeis surrounded by a lush variety of flowers, herbs,and vegetables. She gifts us with a landscapethat is distinctly formed between the plants andher. Beauty is found within particularity, withindifference, and within reverence for all of the wayswe can grow and exist.Safety in Community led me to this narrative oftravel and cosmic balance. The long, windingroad descends into dark woods, but all of it isoverlooked by a bright expansive sky. Thereare some dark clouds, but those are part of themagnificence of our ultimate actualization. Thejourney is manageable because we are travelingtogether—having each other is what will help usget through.

racial justice and the way we protect one another during the COVID-19 . deer sleeps peacefully next to them and a bunny appears. Trees surround them with a waterfall and a rainbow. Everything is in balance. I drew a multiracial and intergenerational community scene with children gardening whi

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