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🌴🏳️‍🌈 los angeles
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Thank you @marygrace for hosting another beautiful @defygravity.la battle 🖤❤️ The care, intention, and heart that you and your team poured into curating an event where we can feel safe enough to be fully ourselves does not go unnoticed. 
Thank you to the judges @kasanatorr @kathryneaddy @gillytheanswer
Thank you DJ @kingleon31
Thank you MCs @chrissphoria @summitshuffler
Thank you @_claudia.elena for putting on the most high quality live stream in shuffle history 
Thank you @delucatonis @cata_suarez @tgirldern @mizu_95 for sharing the battle floor with me 
And thank you to all spectators and participants for coming together✨
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I was not planning on battling this year but when my friend Brian @bhoffa22 kindly asked me to battle as a birthday gift, it was an easy yes. I stepped in wanting to have fun, but also to channel everything I have been moving through these past few months onto the dance floor. I focused on my breath, let the music bring me into the present, allowed whatever feelings surfaced to move honestly through my body, and released it without expectations. Right before the battle, I felt called to get one of @izzychengart ‘s zines, and it felt like pure confirmation. Her words mirrored what I had been carrying in my heart, reminding me that I was meant to show up fully without overthinking it💌✨ 

Out of more than 8 billion people in the world, about 100 beautiful souls gathered in one room that day. That perspective alone reminds me not to take each other, our health, our bodies, or the joy of dancing for granted. With everything going on in the world, coming together like this felt incredibly precious. It truly felt like a family reunion and filled my heart in the best way. I hope we continue to carry ourselves with gratitude and choose love in our day to day lives.

Grateful for every one of you.

Zento 💌 

📸 2nd pic captured by @photosbymarion
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honestly kinda drunk as i write this but 2024 was so memorable and full of adventure. i met so many new friends, created beautiful memories, formed powerful bonds, cried over painful changes, and embraced new ones. here's to 2025 bringing even more hooligans and shenanigans into my life 💕 im so grateful for everyone who i got to share my life with this year
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So grateful to be a part of this art retreat with the most wonderful teacher @agnes_cecile, who's generous, authentic, and hilarious. Not only did she teach us her process with watercolor, she also shared her journey of becoming a full-time artist. She continuously impressed me with not only her masterful skills, but her willingness to keep learning, even sometimes from her students, and her dedication to perfect her craft and teaching. 

I also felt so lucky to be surrounded by the most incredible group of women who are all talented artists. It was so wonderful to hear about your journeys with art and life stories. Your passion and energy are infectious and motivated me to keep pursuing art. Hope to see you all again in the future 💕
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