We Will Not
Be Eradicated
2023

We Will Not Be Eradicated is a reimagined Pride Flag. I began with the rainbow—slanted and angled because the queer movement has never been straight forward. It extends beyond the bounds of the flag suggesting our thriving future. There is a clear strip of vinyl in the middle of the rainbow to be able to see through the flag and into the natural world—to remind us that queerness is an act of inter-relatedness with all beings and energies. I wanted to honor contemporary queer history so I placed two pink triangles in the corners of the rainbows. They represent our ancestors who were lost to the AIDS epidemic and queer people lost in the concentration camps of WWII. They are cornerstones—the people who fought so hard against eradication, keeping the rainbow and our lineage from collapsing. The brown and black fabric is woven togther, representing the unwavering strength of the QTBIPOC communities. These communities have been the literal foundation and bedrock of queerness: leaders of movements and rebellion, of queer fashion and culture and gender.

The pieces are woven to represent these communities’ resistance to violent colonial perceptions and definitions of gender and sexuality. The trans and non-binary colors in the corners extend beyond the boundaries of the flag. They are circles to represent expansion, emergences, pushing boundaries, creating new definitions, thinking more infinitely. They are the avante garde, expanding our consciousness of gender and sexuality, and fruther, how we perceive reality.