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!!mpls based muppet 🥀
!!performing artist
!!poet
@chronically.fly for looks 🖤
@blackdisabilitycollective creator🦋
Revelation 21:4 🧿🙏🏾

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It never really gets easier, you just learn how to deal with it in healthier ways. You’ve been gone nearly as long as I ever had you, and it’s really fucking with my head. How could so many beautiful, impactful things happen in such a short time? You are the best friend, the selfless lover, and the person who made waves far beyond where your eyes could see. I miss you every single day. I talk to you whenever I feel you in the air, or beside me in bed. Whenever butterflies make their way into my life, I know you were there. Happy 27th Birthday, babygirl. Let’s make it a great one.

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Two years and I’m just now letting myself miss you. Your wide cackle, your tenderness and your rage, your deep well of hurt and the love that grew from it. How you saw me, and made sure I knew you had seen me, though in those years I would not let myself be known. This would have been your favorite Beyoncé album. You would be calling every minute for a ceasefire now. We were lucky, lucky beyond measure, all of us, that you believed in a better world and called us into it. “Blessed and highly favored,” as you often said, to have laughed with you, to love you, to count you one of my beloveds.

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teigh teigh—i miss you. i miss you so much all the time. i miss your laugh and your kindness and your beautiful soul. i miss your sass and your sense of humor! there is no one like you, babe. i still can’t fathom that you’re gone or that this fucked up racist fatphobic and ableist medical system took you away. i can’t fathom why i survived near death in the hospital and you didn’t. i can’t accept that i won’t ever hug you again, or have you look at me the way you looked at me in this last picture—with love and adoration and care. two years is too long. keep resting easy, my little mermaid.

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Awesome alternative people throughout the community 🖤
#punkblack
#alternativeappreciation

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Teighlor McGee, 1998-2022 ❤️💛💚💙

“Teighlor advanced racial justice and health care reform as a writer, facilitator, [and] organizer, [etc.] They founded the Black Disability Collective, an online movement centering the narratives and lives of Black disabled individuals. During the uprisings for racial justice, Teighlor provided timely updates on the locations of street medics, called for supplies, and distributed much-needed personal protective equipment.

‘There is a place for disabled people in community organizing,’ Teighlor said. ‘I hope that people never forget that.’” (YWCA St. Paul - Rest in Power: Joint Statement on the Life of Teighlor McGee).

Image description: I drew a portrait of Teighlor McGee using ink and colored pencils. Teighlor was a light skinned Black Native Disabled person. In this drawing, they have orange hair, wearing a blue shirt under a yellow cardigan. They’re smiling with their teeth and looking at the viewer, posing in front of a maroon background.

#artist #drawing #portrait #AutisticArtist #etsy #ActuallyAutistic #InstaArt #InstaArtist #EtsyShop #EtsyArtist #MakersMovement #EtsySeller #neurodivergent #DisabilityPride #autistic #pride #AutisticJoy #AutismAcceptance Kelton Nix drew a portrait of Teighlor McGee using ink and colored pencils.

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Happy heavenly birthday Teighlor. I sure miss that smile a lot. <3

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Thank you to everyone who came out in person and on the livestream for my opening of Exhale last week! This was such an incredibly intense and healing project. Working through it helped me release some of the sadness and grief and heaviness from the past two years. I hope being with it gave you a moment of release too.

And the joy! When I was creating the joy altar I kept feeling like something was missing.. and then I realized it wouldn’t be complete until people interacted with it and built it up with all of their joy and laughter and hopes for our beautiful radical joyous queer future. Thank you for all of your pictures and beautiful words.

And so much love to @the_bayou_constellation for welcoming me into their space and all of the assistance to actually pull this off. The biggest abrazos to you.

More pics of the altars coming soon! Also planning a closing event, stay tuned.

This project was funded by the Minnesota State Arts Board.

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To those I went to highschool with,

Some of you might’ve heard and some not, but a week ago, my friend Teighlor McGee passed away, do to health complications. Teighlor was a beautiful soul and person. Although she might’ve been difficult at times, like we all are, she meant well. If you knew teighlor, if she touched you in a special way, feel free to come give your condolences on Wednesday, April 13th. Visitation at Northwest funeral Chapel at 10 am on Hampton Ave. Then services at 11am at Grace United Church of Christ on Sherman Blvd.
REST EASY TEIGHLOR, your fight is over😔🥰😇

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pensando bastante en ti
🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸
feeling grief and fear and rage
and love and support and wonder
sending my love to teigh! how lucky we all have been to know them!

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Fashion icon, Pisces baby, Squish queen

I can’t overstate the impact you had on me, my business and my life. You started seeing me shortly after I opened and did everything you could to make sure I was booked and busy. You were one of my biggest supporters from the first day we met and I can’t thank you enough for that. You seemed to have an endless amount of love to give. I was always excited to see your name on my books, to hear what was happening in your world, and to create something that might make you feel half as stunning as you are.
I know your nails made you feel put together when things were falling apart and I’m so grateful I got to do that for you. I’m sorry we didn’t get to do the Squishmallow set we planned, but I love that you still came to that last appointment sick as I’ve ever seen you because you weren’t about to go to the hospital with busted nails. That’s that we call an icon.
You are still the only person I let get away with being late to every appointment because I love you so god damn much. I couldn’t ask for a better client, muse, or friend. It was an honor to hold your hands angel

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This. I wasn’t ready for this news and I’m still processing. I’m absolutely devastated and gutted by @astoldbyteighlor Teighlor McGee’s transition. Their transition is a huge loss to the entire Disability community. There is a serious hole in my heart right now. I think we can all agree that Teighlor’s light, words and activism taught us so much. The unlearning and learning shouldn’t cease.

Spend time honoring their memory by reading their work and continuing to support the @blackdisabilitycollective mission to empower the lives of black disabled people. Also please give them space to grieve during this difficult time. Y’all have my full support in the next steps to come and let us know what we can do to provide love, aid and care moving forward.

Morning Teighlor. I’m still trying to process your transition. I hope we can continue to work and fight for disability acceptance and justice the way you would want us to in your memory. I made this for you and your comrades at @blackdisabilitycollective 🌸⚡️🦄✊🏾

Image and video descriptions: A digital collage photo of an exuberant human smiling in fashionable disability glee. They have mixed colored braids and are wearing a care bear tee, a halo of white flowers surround them on a pink/orange gradient back ground.

Other images in this post are photos taken from @astoldbyteighlor life giving IG feed including a screen shot of a @bitchmedia article written by Teighlor everyone should read in Solidarity titled Minneapolis Uses Mutual Aid to Fight for Collective Liberation Image and video descriptions: A digital collage photo of an exuberant human smiling in fashionable disability glee. They have mixed colored braids and are wearing a care bear tee, a halo of white flowers surround them on a pink/orange gradient back ground.

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I want to honor as @blackdisabilitycollective and @astoldbyteighlor you were an amazing leader who was strong advocate for the black disabled experience as well as speak to those who have a chronic illness thank you for your leadership rest in power

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