Launch-Pad on Luv 'til it Hurts

1986: An Elegy for Our Coldest War

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Could Be The Ballroom was always our Nuclear option
A rock scrabble bunker become a threshing floor
How we survived our Coldest War

A Mother a Father an entire house full of babies
tucked into mangers woven out of street corner filament
limber enough to parent those of us:

born with and with out parents
with and without islands

begat inside flags with and without stripes
while reading for A-level exams

A pre-Covid 19 estimation of LUV

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Brainstorming in New York at the Goethe Institut

[*From February 9-11, 2020, Luv ’til it Hurts was busy in NYC. LUV participated in Love Positive Women (a project by Jessica Lynn Whitbread) with a poetry and food-inspired event ‘LUV YEMANJÁ’. Food and a series of handmade porcelain candles were offered by artist Thiago Gonçalves and poet Brad Walrond offered a version of his work ‘1986’ paired with other poems to suit the occasion. On the following two days, a group including Jakub Szczęsny, Eric Rhein, Todd Lester, Brad Walrond, Paula Nishijima, Paula Querido Van Erven worked on the hopeful next phase of the LUV project. Within this process were statements describing the project from individual viewpoints, such as this one by Brad. xo Todd]

closing doors

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

contract work

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

borinquen

Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Luv 'Til It Hurts

Thu, 16 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Luv ‘Til It Hurts: the Launch

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Luv ‘Til It Hurts was formally launched October 27, 2018 at the historic LGBTQ Center in New York City. In keeping with Luv ‘til it Hurts stated mission,

‘’to be a porous container, it aspires to ‘hold’ people together

long enough for essential introductions and exchange ideas’’

for me at the time of this writing, April 2019 it has already been a ravishing success. I launched Every Where Alien [my arts culture and content producing brand and company] in January 2019. My first project is in the form of a narrative documentary and requires travel to São Paulo. I’m thrilled Luv ‘Til It Hurts, found Every Where Alien’s project worthy of support.