A dark blue sky has clouds at the bottom of the digital drawing. In white text, it reads: “R/evolution means protecting the people. The plants. The animals. The air. The water. R/evolution means saving this planet. R/evolution is love. -Assata Shakur

dreaming, creating, & organizing for a better world

A digital drawing of a sunrise or sunset with white handwriting reading: “You were not just born to center your entire existence on work and labor. You were born to heal, to grow, to be of service to yourself and community, to practice, to experiment

THEIR ART

  • MOVEMENT PAINTINGS

    Acrylic & paint pen art inspired by movement quotes & groundings.

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  • DIGITAL ILLUSTRATIONS

    Illustrations created in Procreate for personal practice & publication in South Side Weekly.

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  • CAMPAIGNS

    Art created for specific causes, including worker strikes & the Pretrial Fairness Act.

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  • PERSONAL ART

    Digital & physical art created for personal enjoyment or for Julie’s wife. :)

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THE JULIE M CREATES SHOP

A plastic organizer holds a collection of stickers of different sizes & colors with various movement-related sayings on them.

The shop is closed as Julie spends their energy organizing and teaching.

Sticker sales have previously benefitted:

The CHICAGO IS A UNION sticker raised over $550 for the Howard Brown Health Workers Union strike fund in January 2023!

STOPPING THE SPREAD:

Julie curated a presentation with sources and illustrations they have created to help teachers understand the risks of Covid and take action to prevent the spread. Click below to see the resources, which are available for educational use!

CONNECT WITH JULIE

thanks to the tireless, dangerous, devastating work of Palestinian journalists, we continue witnessing the genocide funded & armed by our governments in real time. we see some of what is happening on the ground in Gaza, the human suffering create
last week, i got to see the northern lights. amidst bearing witness to the ongoing genocide & some of the most horrific violence humans can inflict on others, I was grateful for this moment of beauty & stillness. standing steadfast in the kno
on this day of action, as we approach one year since the escalation of the genocide against Palestinians, I am holding this poem by Mahmoud Darwish. as I prepare my breakfast, I think of the people of Gaza who are being starved by occupation and si
rest in power, Marcellus Khaliifah Williams. the tragedy and injustice of his state-sanctioned murder this week is not an isolated issue. Black men have been lynched and killed by the state since our settler colonial government was founded. Black m
so much to think about after this weekend’s many brilliant sessions at Through the Portal - grateful for all the people who made it happen! the first slide is a summary/synthesis I put together of my notes & the rest are some excerpts of no
created this triptych with my wife in the spring & appreciate having this liberatory grounding in our home - nobody is free until we’re all free. many thanks to Sameerah from @eduworkers4palichi for offering these words for our banner in Ja
I posted the first of this series in March, the week that I wrote “Gaza” in place of a presidential candidate for the Illinois Democratic Primary. Six months later, I still think of Gaza constantly, and my caption then still holds true to
thinking today and every day on the thousands of lives taken from us; grieving the martyrs whose names are ignored by DNC attendees; rejecting the use of my tax dollars to continue a gen0cide enabled, funded, & defended by both parties. this pi
This week for #FridaysForFalestin, Artists for Radical Imagination are uplifting Boshra & the fundraiser for her family. Boshra is an 18 year old whose last year of high school was suspended in November. Boshra has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, &a
some musings on feeling (dis)connected from my body over time & how embodiment helps me relate to the land - this is more like a journal entry that I started in my head when I finally got to swim again last month, but I thought I would share it a