People’s Space
The People’s Space is a growing anti-police zone where all black lives matter, located on the Lower East Side. Our vision is that of a future filled with gender self-determination and without prisons for a BIPOC-led, multiracial revolution.
At present, we offer sanctuary to a group of BIPOC residents (aka Artist-in-Residents) in order to support their artistic practices and just transitions towards holistic independence, including job placement and property ownership. FREE CRIB 4 Black Lives is our mutual aid distribution center offering our community and members of the LES free food, radical community education, an abolitionist library by Abolition Park, PPE, medic supplies, harm reduction supplies, and places to rest and take a load off.
If you donate your funds will be put to use right away and will go towards the operations of this liberated zone and future of our BIPOC AIRs. Donate here.
The Leadership at People's Space...amongst others:
- Jonathan González is an artist, organizer, and farmer-in-training from Queens, NY.
- Dada Coz is a performing artist from the Bronx, New York whose work narrates her lived experience in the pursuit of autonomy of the Black body through erotic expression and Afro futuristic rhythm and dance.
- Sarah Snider is a jack of all trades, master of some from the DC metro area.
- Monica Mirabile is an artist, organizer and caretaker from the west coast of Florida.
- Ripley Soprano is an educator, artist and harm reduction worker. They have lived in New York all their life.
We are so grateful for your help! It takes community to lift the people up. All power to the people.
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"Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful." - Assata Shakur
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"If it is possible to resist the gender binary we can certainly effectively resist prisons & jails & police." -Dr. Angela Davis
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"It's not that we believe this or that. We know that's who we are. When the dust settle, I want my trans girls and guys to stand up and say, 'I'm still fucking here' " -Miss Major Griffin Gracey
Angel’s Boot, Washington, DC July 2018
a public, effected intervention by Danyele Brown, Ms. Monyea, High Definition Exposure
Angel’s Boot, Washington, DC July 2018
a public, effected intervention by Danyele Brown, Ms. Monyea, High Definition Exposure
Angel’s Boot, a public, effected intervention that took place in Washington, DC in July 2018. The work was a collaboration between Danyele Brown (effect designer), Ms. Monyea (curator and performer), and High Definition Exposure (DC-based multimedia collective, comprised of Tony Bush and Josh Peoples). The work sought to queer a counter-klan rally organized by the community of southeast DC through experimental embodiment of trans-utilitarianism. Our collective process rejected isolated/discrete theory pertaining to transwomen/transfemmes getting love in the hood (e.g. ‘realness’, formal gender education, etc), in order to recenter a long history of transfeminine organizing in Chocolate City.
Out front PS 122CC, two community members facilitating the mutual aid distribution center, FREE CRIB 4 Black Lives, practice skateboarding. Behind them are the thrift options and public seating for all people.
Free Ear Acupuncture for Mental Health services offered to a community member of The People’s Space.
People’s Space
All images courtesy of the artists.