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Issues, events, milestones, that connect us as neighbors.

Artist Malachi Lily stands facing the camera, head tilted back as they gaze up and to the left, hands raised slightly with palms facing the audience. They are wearing a deeply colored sweater with religious imagery stitched into it lined by the words "Want to be a slut." Malachi also wears a denim bucket hat, their hair spilling out from underneath.
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Malachi Lily: Channeling a better world

A painted banner by Jeffrey Cheung foregrounds a room whose white walls are covered with colorful flyers, banners, art paraphernalia. The banner depicts two entangled humanoid forms smiling at each other, with UNITY printed above them.
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Asian Arts initiative premieres 'Unity at the Initiative', showcasing art by queer and trans artists of color

Artist Khari Johnson-Ricks pastes his mural to the side of The Attic Youth Center brick wall. Khari foregrounds a tall ladder and is weaing a denim chore coat and white facemask. The mural is dynamic and rainbow-colored against the brick.
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Artist Khari Johnson-Ricks Celebrates Queer Skate Communities with Center City New Mural

AAI Executive Director Anne Ishii hold up a wheatpasting poster designed by Moor Mother, which features a black and white collage of astronomical figures and the text: "Black astrologers predict the future"
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Skate park installation and printmaking exhibition bring queer and trans artists together

U@I artist Jeremiah Jordan and Golden Collier wheatpaste posters to the brick walls of Giovanni's Room
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Asian Arts Initiative teams up with Oakland skate icon Jeffrey Cheung to celebrate queer artists of color

Videostill of the artist Jeff Cheung handpainting a banner on the ground
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Art exhibition celebrates Philly's LGBTQ communities of color

Point of view from Pearl Street behind the AAI building, looking through double wide windows into a studio adorned on all walls with colorful flyers and prints. Painted banners hand from the ceiling displaying the slogan "UNITY Queer Skateboarding!!!!" and painted figures in embrace. The outside of the building is painted with a mural of the neighborhood.
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Unity Within the Initiative: Contribute Now!

Picture from outdoors of a capsule exhibition of queer and trans empowered artwork
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Unity at the Initiative

Alan Chelak smiling and wearing a knit cap, with his fluffy white dog on his lap in a sunlit room full of plants
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Alan Chelak