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bloom zine collective - issue #002 harm reduction + healing
🌿”BLOOM” by
they/them
linktr.ee/mirroredfatality
postcrypt.cargo.site/mirrored-fatality
Part of the larger “cocoon webs” EP: mirroredfatality.bandcamp.com

this psychedelic cool music video named after, yours truly, “bloom” by mirrored fatality
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“mirrored fatality is a nonbinary Kapampangan-Pilipinx and Pakistani-Muslim performance art duo Mango and Samar, sharing their rituals, altars, and medicine through DIT (Do It Together) experimental and healing noise punk. mirrored fatality creates their self-proclaimed “cocoon webs” combining performance art, music, spoken word, film, photography, painting, drawing, upcycled garments, anti-imperialist education, healing justice practice spaces; mobilizing and bridging a transnational warrior community who responds urgently to transnational calls-to-action between Turtle Island, Kashmir, and Mindanao.
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mirrored fatality’s performance activism allows them a safe space to release their bubbling, fermenting primal rage rooted in the settler colonialism, transphobia, racism, xenophobia, and intergenerational ancestral trauma they experience daily as nonbinary people of color. mirrored fatality’s intentions for their art is for Q***r Trans Black Indigenous People of Color to embody their rage, disrupt the silence and isolation from existing in a white supremacist capital"

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See the full video at: https://youtu.be/GG-vBJ5dTVw

bloom zine collective - issue #002 harm reduction + healing

🌿“the karmapseudical industry”
kiranjit shoker (she/her)the.muse

A poem which asks readers to reflect on the relationship between medicine and healing

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“‘The Karmapseudical Industry’ entices the audience to consider what is medicine and healing, and how we have come to these practices. For too long, Western culture has capitalized off of colonized culture without benefiting those communities or people. They will allow all of our love into their home but will not love us equitably in return. Perhaps this poem captures a sense of betrayal or injustice of being used in a disingenuous manner; I love being Canadian, but Canada doesn’t love people who look like me. They will gladly accept my saffron and gold, but not give me equal access to opportunity. Its socio-economically profitable to exoticise and commodify a culture. People say cultural appropriation doesn’t exist, that globalization is about sharing, but tell me what the West is giving back to the colonized while taking their treasures?

Shoker is a South Asian Canadian artist and educator forged from the cracks of diaspora, whose writing and performances centre around agency and self-determination. In exploring race, gender, and colonialism with raw humanity, Shoker’s art builds on empowerment and restoration of self.”