JT Photo & Design

Thankful to the team for keeping the doors open for the community ✨🫶🏽✨ the prints looked so beautiful adorning the space! Often when I’m traveling I miss out on hanging with the homies! It was good to finally see some beautiful Baltimore homies in real life 👏🏾 .brancato and many others! ✨✨✨ community over everything! It was also dope to rock our revolutionary artist swag in solidarity with our design homies holding it down in the Twin Cities, MN!

We’ve been rockin with for a minute now! Language justice and the art of language as a tool to preserve the voices of our ancestors, children and communities is central to my mothering as an of resistance design practice. I created this collection for Black Disabled Lives like myself who have been watching their history and futures being silenced and erased.

This collection is dedicated to the heart work of Black Mothers and Black Woman like Fannie Lou Hamer, Lois Curtis, .rikiesha .and.fries .functioning.autism and so many others who have poured life into my practice over the years.

powerful phrase of joy, acknowledgment, and reclamation ‘There Are Black People in The Future’ inspired the intersection and weaving of Blackness and Disability in my phrasing ‘There Are Black Disabled People In The Future’

This collection calls to the heartwork of Black Disabled Mothers like Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, and Black Disability Justice activists like and many more who I want to feel seen through the phrasing ‘I am Manifesting Black Disabled Joy and Justice!

The support this week for my Black Disability Joy and Justice collection has been so amazing!! Please support the heartwork as 10% of the proceeds go to my disabled friends at ✨✨ link in bio!

While this collection was envisioned for Black History Month, the work of Black disabled creators doesn’t stop when the calendar turns. We are more than a month of remembrance; we are a future of persistence. ‘There are Black Disabled People in the Future’ is an assertion that our lives, our disabled joy, and our humanity demand celebration every single day. We aren’t just making history, we are building what comes next. Black Disabled Joy in its truest form.

Black disabled creators are busy shaping the world. ‘There are Black Disabled People in the Future’ is more than a collection, it’s a declaration. We’re moving past the ‘month’ and into a permanent era of celebration. Our history is deep, but our future is even bigger. Join us in honoring Black disabled lives today, tomorrow, and always.

The photos for this collection were taken by us as a family :) we captured our beautiful identities showing our baby boi what it means stand in our authenticity.